Sure, the news of a hidden flight simulator game within Google Earth hit the mainstream blogs days ago, but what better way to have fun and crunch office time while still using a Google service! Heck, Google hasn’t come out with a better time waster since, well, the YouTube acquisition.

Nathan from InsideGoogle writes :

If you click on the planet and press CTRL+ALT+A, you get to start up a flight simulator and fly around the globe. While moving around Google Earth has always been fun, hopping in the cockpit of an F16 or SR22 prop plane can be a completely different kind of exciting.

Google Earth Flight Simulator keyboard controls are available from Google and here’s a nifty YouTube video showing off the game.