Along came google earth and virtual earth and mapping got turned on it's eart.
However, the msfs project has been scrapped and unless it gets mysteriously revived the world of maps is not going to catch up with the other advances of flight sim.
You just have to wonder, where is MS going with this whole virtual earth thing. When you take a step back from the reality of the sim and do some slewing around you realize how slow 'painting' of objects is compared to the way objects are brought up so fast with virtual earth. Does this hold the key to the future of simming?
I can cycle through the views of my plane by hitting the s key. I would like to be able to cycle through the different types of planes by hitting for instance maybe, 'p', I dont know if that key is already mapped.