Microsoft Flight Simulator, the computer game that has been going on for nigh on thirty years, is no more.

This saddens me. I’ve spent quite a few hours on FSX, trying to get an R22 to do what I want to do> It started off with me thinking that real flying was much harder than using the simulator. I’ve changed my mind on that; there’s much more scope for instinct and seat-of-the-pants flying in the real world, and since I got the hang of that I’ve stopped using it as much. But it was plenty useful back at the start.

And it would appear that there isn’t going to be any more of them. Boo.