Google must have been having some down time in the office lately and have developed a flight sim for Google Earth instead of maintaining their search engine. Must be the lack of share holders forcing the company to kick some employees into working harder.

Instructions for the flight sim ‘easter egg’ hidden in Google Earth can be found at http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html.

I’ve just tried it and crashed and burned a couple of times – even with the crib sheet printed off. Right off to try and not crash my plane into the middle of the American wilderness.