Microsoft is holding a technical alpha later this month for the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release. The technical alpha will be held over an unspecified weekend in October to test the game’s core services ahead of its debut on November 19th.

Microsoft announced the upcoming “technical alpha” on the official Flight Simulator website, which includes the system requirements for the PC version — which are pretty beefy, even for a hardcore simulation.

Sign up for the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Technical Alpha if you want to go hands-on with the game before it launches in November.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting a technical alpha on PC later this month ahead of its release on November 19, 2024.

With the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the planes will begin to look the same as well — including some of the wild modifications that real-world pilots will often make to their aircraft to increase STOL performance. Take, for instance, something as seemingly trivial as the metal cowling around a plane’s engine.

Those looking forward to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s November 19 release may get an early taste of what the flight simulator feels like. The developers have opened up sign-ups for the software’s technical alpha test.