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If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.

If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.

• Fixed a crash when attempting to reach some areas in the World (e.g. Pecs TV Tower)

• Improved memory management on Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X to improve stability

• Fixed bugs on timezone system; in addition, data is now more accurate (country coasts and borders, islands, etc.)

• Aligned Bing Maps data with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

• Fixed terraforming on TIN

• Changed the way water body polygons work so that overlapping polygons of the same type no longer cancel each other

• Improved handling of navdata for runways that do not exist in the sim. The resolution is now only done after all scenery layers are loaded, and only transitions will be removed rather than full procedures where possible.

• Fixed an issue where airports used as waypoints in instrument procedures contained a region code that prevented them from being loadable using the ICAO.

• Fixed an issue with handling spoiler inputs that could cause the airplane to spin out of control.

• Added the approach cue to the airspeed indicator and angle of attack indicator.

• Added FMS initialization flow.

• Added the PFD pitch limit indicator.

• Fixed an issue where the THROTTLE_REVERSE_THRUST_TOGGLE key event would sometimes not work correctly even when the throttle lever position was at the full idle stop.

• Fixed the scrolling behavior of the PFD CAS display.

• Replaced certain PFD TAWS/GPWS annunciations with CAS messages.

• The TERRAIN FAIL CAS message no longer appears when TAWS is running a self-test.

• Thrust reverser deployment is now properly simulated, with deployment requiring hydraulic pressure.

• FADEC now commands more realistic N1 targets while reverse thrust is active.

• Disengaging the autothrottle using the autothrottle disconnect switch is now counted as a “normal” disengagement.

• Added the “autothrottle” aural alert when the autothrottle is disengaged.

• Added the “airspeed” aural alert when one of the autothrottle’s speed protection modes (MIN SPD or MAX SPD) is engaged.

• The CABIN ALTITUDE caution CAS message now appears when there are uncommanded increases in cabin altitude.

• Cabin altitude is now initialized to a sensible value when first spawning into a flight.

• The pressurization DUMP switch now functions properly.

• The ENGINE FAIL L/R CAS message now appears when FADEC detects an engine flameout.

• The engine RUN/STOP switch halo lights now function properly.

• Autothrottle now disengages when thrust reversers are in an unsafe condition.

• Added the approach cue to the airspeed indicator.

• Added FMS initialization flow.

• Added electronic stability and protection (ESP).

• The flight director now commands a pitch of 10 degrees when the vertical GA mode is active.

• Added the PFD virtual pathways feature.

• Fixed an issue where the runway leg of a departure or arrival procedure could be duplicated in the flight plan.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes approaches added to the flight plan could have improper connections between the approach transition and the final approach segment.

• Added support for VNAV vertical track annunciations and aural alerts.

• Added the ability to inhibit terrain system alerts through the GTC Terrain Settings page.

• Added support for TAWS glideslope/glidepath deviation (GSD) alerts.

• Fixed an issue where the map wind vector arrow was not updating correctly in certain situations.

• Fixed an issue where scrolling a long list on a GTC could sometimes have an inappropriately large performance cost.

• Fixed an issue where FMS could calculate an incorrect airspeed reference in certain cases.

• Horizontal GTCs (GTC 580) will now allow the use of the upper dual concentric knob to change selected OBS course when the GTC is in the PFD control mode.

• The autopilot will now always allow arming of approach mode (LOC/GS) when the active navigation source is NAV1 or NAV2 and a valid localizer frequency is tuned.

• Fixed various cases where pressing the autopilot NAV or APR button while approach mode was active would not arm/disarm the correct flight director modes.

• Adjusted terrain system alert logic to reduce the chances of issuing spurious or very brief alerts.

• Fixed an issue where the runway leg of a departure or arrival procedure could be duplicated in the flight plan.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes approaches added to the flight plan could have improper connections between the approach transition and the final approach segment.

• Fixed an issue where very long flight plans were not displayed correctly in the GTC Flight Plan page.

• Fixed an issue where long procedure name text in the GTC Procedures page could sometimes wrap and overflow its containing button.

• Added support for automatic slewing of the selected CDI course for NAV radios that have tuned localizers.

• Fixed the appearance of several icons in the Main Menu and Setup Menu.

• Pressing the MENU button while the MFD Info page or MFD Engine page is open will now open a popup menu.

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Add Waypoint’ button on the MFD FPL page would sometimes not be hidden or displayed correctly after loading or removing an approach in the internal flight plan.

• The autopilot will now always allow arming of approach mode (LOC/GS) when the CDI source is VLOC and a valid localizer frequency is tuned.

• Fixed various cases where pressing the autopilot NAV or APR button while approach mode was active would not arm/disarm the correct flight director modes.

• Fixed an issue where the CDI Source button in the PFD Options menu was disabled when two external navigators were configured but only one navigator supported GPS and the external flight plan source was selected.

• Adjusted the styling of the PFD wind display to better match the real unit.

• The APPR button in the AFCS Controls menu is now enabled.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes the PFD Active Flight Plan inset would not correctly display flight plans from external navigators.

• The VNAV button in the AFCS Controls menu now works properly when the G3X is configured with a VNAV-capable external navigator.

• Fixed an issue where the VNAV indication would not appear properly in the AFCS status box.

• Fixed an issue where the runway leg of a departure or arrival procedure could be duplicated in the flight plan.

• Fixed an issue where very long flight plans were sometimes not displayed correctly in the MFD Flight Plan page and PFD Active Flight Plan inset.

• Fixed the display of the EGT readout in the EIS to show the correct value.

• By default, the G3X will now use the fuel density reported by the “FUEL WEIGHT PER GALLON” SimVar when converting between fuel volume and fuel weight.

• The PFD Options menu will now display external GPS CDI sources as “GPS1” and “GPS2” when there is more than one external GPS source.

• Fixed exceptions when loading helipad data.

• Fixed handling of heliport elevation on airport page.

• Fixed an issue where the runway leg of a departure or arrival procedure could be duplicated in the flight plan.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes approaches added to the flight plan could have improper connections between the approach transition and the final approach segment.

• Added MF controller event handling for for COM, NAV, XPDR buttons.

• Fixed a parameter error in the Autopilot.xml template.

• Intercept and manual sequencing legs can now be deleted and the route amended after these legs.

• Fixed FA legs from the runway being skipped in departures.

• Fixed duplicate runway legs inserted into the flight plan with some SIDs.

• Fixed VNAV target readout not displaying the target altitude for passing at-and-above constraints when descending in VPTH mode.

• The AP now rejects invalid flight director coupling flags (L:XMLVAR_AUTOPILOT_LR).

• Some settings will now persist between flights

• Selecting to amend the flight plan route now scrolls to the amend route list item

• When the active leg is being tracked by LNAV, it will now display as magenta, matching the map colours.

• Fixed a bug where SIDs with no runway transitions were not shown after a departure runway was selected.

• Fixed an issue where invalid airports were automatically entered on the flight plan page on power up.

• Fix METAR date handling for systems that have date displayed as \[Month] \[Day] instead of \[Day] \[Month]

• Fixed PFD displaying incorrect wind data

• Fixed errors in model behaviours due to incorrect tag names

• Fix nav preview text overlap

• Fixed various input fields not being editable via the TSC keyboard

• Fixed various input fields not losing focus when the enter key is pressed

• Fixed an issue where some facilities did not appear in the select object dialog, and improved the layout.

• Fixed an issue where duplicate waypoints with discontinuities appear in the flight plan when amending the route.

• Pressing the direct to button on the TSC now scrolls the flight plan to the direct to window.

• Fixed handling of the enter button on the direct to random window.

• Fixed incorrect procedure legs being removed when changing procedures.

• Fixed erroneous transitions being displayed for SIDs and STARs with no transitions.

• Fixed VECTORS approach transition selected by default and no de-selectable.

• Fixed STAR/APPR/transition combinations that are not compatible with existing selections being shown.

• Fixed the activate vectors button positioning and logic.

• Fixed flight paths at the connection between STAR and approach transition.

• Fixed merging of approach transition and final approach when the transition joins the FAF.

• 3 and 5 letter airport idents are now accepted as origin and destination.

• Fixed destination fuel remaining unit on the flight management window.

• Fixed an issue where the right-side TSC outer and inner knob functions were swapped when setting the transponder code.

• When on flight plan menu page, the flight plan page button would not work.

• Nav page would not show Estimated Time Enroute and Estimated Time of Arrival

• Nav page would not update the TO leg’s distance to go

• Nav data page would not show up to date nav data expiry

• After emptying the flight plan, the arrival/departure pages will now remove old procedure information

• Changing the arrival airport from the arrival page, will now remove any arrival procedure selected for that airport.

• When an airport is inserted as the last leg of the flight plan, if no approach is selected it will be made the arrival airport

• Fixed handling of heliport elevation in the waypoint ident page.

• Fixed FA legs from the runway being skipped in departures.

• Fixed duplicate runway legs inserted into the flight plan with some SIDs.

• Fix CDI scaling label always displaying as Terminal

• Fixed arrival page not updating data from the flight plan on it being loaded

• Fix departure page not updating runways after inputting a runway

• Fix not being able to select a departure if a departure with no transitions has already been selected

• Fix power/dim overlay not displaying properly on the LIST page

• Added support for Honeycomb Aeronautical Alpha Lite

• Fixed an infinite loading when launching Dune activities

• Added support for 3ds Max 2024

Launched in celebration of FlightSimExpo 2025, held in Providence, Rhode Island in late June, City Update 11: Northeastern United States highlights several areas of interest (AOIs) across four northeastern U.S. states: Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. This update comprises a spectacular mix of locations throughout this storied region of the United States, including portions of New England, one of the most important heritage areas in the nation. Microsoft and partners created each AOI using recent high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery, digital elevation models (DEMs), and TIN (triangulated irregular network) surface texturing. City Update 11 invites exploration throughout the sights of this historically renowned part of America, where each flight is filled with expansive vistas and intriguing landmarks.

Areas of Interest included, by state: 

Massachusetts

Boston: The capital of and most populous city in the state of Massachusetts, Boston serves as the primary cultural, financial, and logistical hub of the New England region. Founded in 1630, Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States and is one of the most renowned of the country’s heritage sites, notably due to its role in the American Revolution.

Plymouth: The Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, making it one of the most important historical sites in the United States. Called “America’s Hometown,” Plymouth is located 40 miles south of Boston and is the oldest settlement in New England.

New Jersey

Northeastern New Jersey: Cities include Newark, Hackensack, and Paterson, all of which are members of the greater New York metropolitan area. Newark, one of the oldest cities in the United States, is renowned for its contribution to the industrial development of the country and as a modern transportation hub. Hackensack is known for its historical importance during the American Revolution where George Washington established a headquarters. Paterson became a key location in the Industrial Revolution due to the energy supplied by the Great Falls of the Passaic River, around which the city was initially constructed.

Central Jersey: This AOI focuses on cities in the eastern portion of Central Jersey, including Elizabeth, New Brunswick, and Edison. Elizabeth was the first capital of New Jersey and is one of the state’s oldest cities. New Brunswick played an important role in the American Revolution and is an important university center. Edison (originally called Raritan Township) was named after famed American inventor Thomas Edison who established his research laboratory in the area and created several important innovations, including the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph.

New York

Brooklyn: Located on the western end of Long Island, Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. It lies just south of the borough of Queens and is connected to the borough of Manhattan by one tunnel and three bridges that span the East River. Brooklyn offers some of the most stunning views in all of New York City, notably of the Brooklyn Bridge, the East River, and lower Manhattan.

Manhattan: Manhattan is one of the most renowned urban centers in the world. The smallest borough by area of the five boroughs that compose New York City, Manhattan is often cited as the capital of several global industries, including finance, media, and entertainment. Known for its iconic architecture, Manhattan is home to the tallest building in both the United States and the Western Hemisphere, One World Trade Center (1,776 feet tall), and the second tallest in the Nation and the Western Hemisphere, Central Park Tower (1,550 feet tall).

Long Island’s East End: One of the most beautiful areas in the northeastern United States, Long Island’s East End is renowned for its pastoral landscapes, historic villages, colonial architecture, and maritime vistas. The update includes Southampton, one of the core towns of the well-known Hamptons resort area, and Montauk, the easternmost point in New York State and home to the spectacular Montauk Point Lighthouse.

Rhode Island

The update’s Rhode Island AOI covers all major cities in the state, including Providence, Cranston, and Warwick. Providence, established in 1636, is the capital and most populous city in the state. Providence, along with the cities of Cranston and Warwick to its south, are located along the mouth of the Providence River at the northern extremity of Narragansett Bay, which opens to the Atlantic Ocean.

City Update 11: Northeastern United States is available FREE to all owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Ensure that you have the latest simulator version installed (1.38.2.0 for MSFS2020 / 1.3.23.0 for MSFS2024 / 1.3.25.0 for MSFS2024 on Windows PC - Steam as of 06/27/2025), download City Update 11, and take to the skies above the Northeastern United States!

Microsoft Flight Simulator is available for Xbox Series X|S and PC with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Windows, and Steam, and on Xbox One and supported mobile phones, tablets, and lower-spec PCs via Xbox Cloud Gaming. For the latest information on Microsoft Flight Simulator, stay tuned to @MSFSOfficial on Twitter. 

 

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Welcome to the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Sim Update 16 public beta test!

1. Open your Steam Library
   
2. Right-click Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
   
3. Click “Properties”
   
4. Click “Betas”
   
5. Select “flight_sim_beta – Sim Update 16"

If you would like to exit the pre-release test before it ends and revert back to the live build, follow these instructions:

1. Open your Steam Library
   
2. Right-click Microsoft Flight Simulator
   
3. Click “Properties”
   
4. Click “Betas”
   
5. Select “None”

If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.
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• Improved memory management on Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X to improve stability

• Fixed bugs on Timezone system. In addition, data is now more accurate (country coasts and borders, islands, etc)

• Changed the way water bodies polygons work so that overlapping polygons of the same type no longer cancel each other

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This release spotlights a diverse selection of the country’s most beautiful locations, from Dallas, Texas to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Microsoft Flight Simulator City Update 10: United States I delivers five spectacular cities throughout the United States in vibrant detail: Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Denver, Colorado; San Francisco, California; and Honolulu, Hawaii. Each city has been crafted using the latest aerial and satellite imagery, digital elevation models (DEMs), and TIN (triangulated irregular network) surface texturing. The exquisite detail offered in this latest release will inspire aviators to explore these storied cities and admire their landmarks throughout every season, at any time of the day or night.


Dallas, and its sister city to the west, Fort Worth, were established in the 1800s as railroad hubs to serve the cotton, livestock, and oil industries of Texas. Today, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a key urban anchor in north Texas, is the most populous metropolitan area in the state. The region is a major international hub of several industries, including manufacturing, defense, finance, and tourism. The metroplex offers spectacular sights, including the iconic Fountain Place and a 720-foot-tall modernist skyscraper in Dallas; 777 Main Street in Fort Worth, a striking building that stands 525 feet tall; and the 561-foot-tall Reunion Tower, one of the most recognizable buildings in Dallas.


Known as the “Mile High City” (its official elevation is 5,280 feet, exactly one mile above sea level), Denver is both the most populous city in Colorado and the state’s capital. Established in 1858 by prospectors who led what would come to be known as the Pike’s Peak gold rush, Denver became an important railroad city in 1870. It blossomed into a major metropolitan center in the 20th century, characterized by a stunning skyline set against the high Rocky Mountains. Some of the sights for pilots to behold include Republic Plaza, the city’s highest building at 714 feet; 1144 Fifteenth, one of the world’s most spectacular modern skyscrapers; the Rocky Mountains to its west; and the vast, oceanic plains east of Denver.


Called by many the most beautiful city in the world, San Francisco is squarely located where the San Francisco Bay opens to the Pacific Ocean. The city was formally established in 1850 due to the boom in population from the California Gold Rush, which began in 1848. Set along a spectacular section of Pacific Ocean coastline, San Francisco offers a wonderful selection of sights, including the world-renowned Golden Gate Bridge; the iconic Transamerica Building; Alcatraz Island; and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.


The capital and most populous city of the state of Hawaii, Honolulu is known for its beautiful architecture set against the tropical blue and green waters of the Pacific Ocean. Located on the southeastern coast of the island of Oahu, Honolulu boasts human history that dates back many centuries and was incorporated as a city in 1907. Meaning “sheltered port” in Hawaiian, Honolulu features numerous sights for the aerial visitor, including its spectacular skyline; Diamond Head, an extinct volcanic cone just to the southeast of the city; the waters of the Pacific Ocean; and the spectacular Koʻolau Range inland of the metropolitan area.



City Update 10: United States I is available FREE to all owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Ensure that you have the latest simulator version installed, download City Update 10, and explore. The sky is calling!

Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are available for Xbox Series X|S and PC with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Windows, and Steam, and on Xbox One and supported mobile phones, tablets, and lower-spec PCs via Xbox Cloud Gaming. For the latest information on Microsoft Flight Simulator products, stay tuned to @MSFSOfficial on X (formerly Twitter) or visit http://www.flightsimulator.com/.

 

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To purchase these discounted items, visit the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace, select ‘Featured’, scroll down to ‘Special Offers’, then select ‘See All’ and look for the savings.

Enjoy discounted pricing during our Microsoft Flight Simulator Black Friday Sale!


For 6 Days starting on November 27th, save up to 90% on more than 3500 items.


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Hello folks,

We have an abbreviated blog post for you this week as our team is currently focused entirely on resolving the launch issues for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. We will be back with a regular Development Update Blog next week. In the meantime, please see this message from Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann about the issues many of you have experienced this week:

We are seeing significant improvements to the capacity and access issues and are planning to gradually increase capacity while we monitor the situation. We are feeling optimistic that players will be able to access the sim and take to the skies. We thank you for your ongoing patience and will provide another update on Friday. - Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator

-Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator

Click here to continue reading the Marketplace Update!

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is by far our most ambitious simulator to date, and we are incredibly excited for all of you – from our core sim fans to all gamers and those who want to explore the world with us – to join us on this journey. With authentic realism of all environments, aviation careers to pursue and the ability to explore our beautiful world with various kinds of aircraft, there is something amazing for everyone in this version of the simulator.

We feel very fortunate that Microsoft Flight Simulator has a vibrant, highly informed and passionate community which has been invaluable on our journey to continually improve the simulator. Our motto is “for the community – with the community”, which means that we will continue to carefully listen to your feedback and suggestions to help guide our development efforts – and it also means that we will continue to work with teams from the community to help us produce the best aircraft, airports, scenery, missions, and other features.


The team at Asobo is very much the core with the engine and key innovations all coming from the team in Bordeaux. We were able to substantially enhance the breadth and quality by inviting other creator teams from the flight sim community to help and bring focus to the many areas of this vast simulator. Aircraft were built by well-known and loved community teams like iniBuilds, Carenado, Got Friends, Blackbird, Hype Performance Group, MilTech, S&H, FlightFX, DC Designs, ATSimulations, BlueMesh and others to create the largest and most detailed fleet we have ever had (70 aircraft) for the base simulator. Other areas like airports, heliports, glider airports were mostly built by the talented team at Gaya, worldwide obstacles by Orbx & Puffin Flight, animals by Lakshya and via a collaboration with Frontier Developments, air racing by Climax, and many other elements like avionics and flight planning from Working Title. In total, we had over 800 people contributing to the sim and the result is beautiful and incredibly impressive.

The dream of flight is ingrained in us yet many people have been unable to pursue that dream due to a lack of opportunity to pilot their own plane … MSFS 2024 provides 70 highly diverse aircraft, our entire beautiful Earth, and many activities to suit your aviation desires.

Thank you for embarking on this incredible adventure with us. We hope you enjoy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

The Sky Is Calling.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available in a variety of editions. The Standard Edition – available with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass — comes with 70 aircraft and 150 upgraded airports; Deluxe Edition includes 10 additional aircraft and five extra airports; the Premium Deluxe includes another 15 aircraft (total of 95); Aviator Edition includes everything from the Premium Deluxe Edition plus the entire fleet of 30 Microsoft-published Marketplace aircraft developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator between 2021 and 2024. If you own Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Deluxe Edition or Premium Deluxe Edition the additional aircraft and airports unique to these editions will automatically work in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.