Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe

Beyond the aircraft, the Deluxe edition unlocked the . Standard users were stuck in the cockpit or outside view. Deluxe users could sit in a virtual control tower at any of the 18,000+ detailed airports, watching AI traffic (which was vastly increased in volume for Deluxe) taxi, takeoff, and land. For the "armchair controller," this was a zen garden of logistics.