Flight Simulator

Recently while browsing Digg I found an article for Google Earth Flight Simulator. This really caught my eye. I found it very interesting, its an awesome "hidden" feature.

From the post on Marco's Blog:

Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky. As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this post. Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I cannot seem to find any other information about. It's not in the release notes and a search on Google produces no results. Seems Google have done one of their unpublicised updates they're becoming well-known for.

What I'm talking about is a flight simulator embedded within GE. Sounds awesome, doesn't it? If the thought amazes you as much as it did me, then might have run off and tried it for yourself. But there's a problem. Remember what I said above - it's a hidden feature!

First of all you'll have to install the latest version of GE. Once you've started it all up, explored Google Sky a bit, then all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+A (if you're running OS X it's Command+Option+A; some people have reported that Ctrl+A or Ctrl+Windows+A work when the standard Ctrl+Alt+A does not).

Read the full article here.

I played around with it. It is AWESOME, you can fly an F16 everywhere on earth. It might take a little playing around to get it to open. For me I had to go to an airport and try the key combination there. Then it worked.

Everyone should go and play with it. Its awesome. Also Google Sky is awesome.

So to conclude, Google rocks. :P