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While Google Earth has a built-in option for flying a flight simulator, the better choice for the past few years has been Xavier Tassin's GEFS ("Google Earth Flight Simulator"). It's an incredible program, with a variety of planes to choose from, real-time weather, and even allows you to see other pilots flying around you!

He's just released another update to it, which features the following changes:

• User accounts, self moderation
• Instrumented cockpits
• Flight record/replay
• Autopilot
• PAPI
• Reworked aircraft 3D model
• Antonov An-140
• New user interface

You can read more about it on his blog, but your time would be better spent simply heading to his main site and flying!

Great work as always, Xavier.

Taking Street View images on the Midway Island must have been hard for the google crew considering all the birds everywhere. Here the google crew has left the bike to take some images for us.

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This Street View image was taken on the US Atoll Midway Island in the North Pacific Ocean. It’s a National Wildlife refuge.

One small step for Google crew…

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