April 24th, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user PRGeek5909! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

On Tuesday, we released City Update 10: United States I! This free update adds new TIN data (photogrammetry) to five US cities:

Denver
Dallas
Fort Worth
Honolulu
San Francisco

The update is available for both MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 users as a FREE download from the in-sim Marketplace. Be sure to claim it today to enjoy enhanced scenery while flying over these popular US destinations!

Late last week, we released another pre-release test build to those players participating in the Sim Update 2 (SU2) public beta test. You can find the release notes for version 1.4.14.0 on our forums. As always, we kindly ask that those of you enrolled in the beta be sure to vote in our forum surveys about your experience with this latest test build. This feedback is incredibly valuable to us!

As a reminder, the Spring Sale for both the MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Marketplaces is currently ongoing! Enjoy savings of up to 85% off on select products! Please see the following announcements for more information:

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title

No update this week.

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

Click here for the web-friendly version of the Marketplace Update.

There are 28 NEW and 65 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

First Party Releases This Week
1 NEW Products: 1 ON PC, 1 ON XBOX

	New on PC and Xbox

New Releases This Week
26 NEW Products: 13 ON PC, 13 ON XBOX
New on PC	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC

Updated This week:
65 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 36 ON PC, 29 ON XBOX
Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on PC	Updated on PC	Updated on PC
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC	Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 45 NEW and 15 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

First Party Releases This Week
1 NEW Products: 1 ON PC, 1 ON XBOX
	New on PC and Xbox

New This week:
43 NEW Products: 22 ON PC, 21 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
	New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
15 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 7 ON PC, 8 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 371 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	18	0	5	23
Mission	40	0	88	128
Scenery	18	0	1	19
Livery	2	0	4	6
Airport	14	0	18	32
Other	6	0	9	15
Total	98	0	125	223

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	12	0	15	27
Mission	0	0	22	22
Scenery	12	0	5	17
Livery	17	0	7	24
Airport	32	0	21	53
Other	0	0	5	5
Total	73	0	75	148

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

City Update 10 launched earlier this week, and to celebrate this release, our Community Fly-In event will be between two of the cities with newly updated TIN (photogrammetry) data: San Francisco and Denver!

Join us for a beautiful high level flight across scenic California and parts of the US Southwest including a crossing of the majestic Rocky Mountains!

Click here for event details!

Rise of a Pilot – Career Mode Livestream

As of April 8, 2025, the Rise of a Pilot series is on temporary hiatus. Stay tuned for more information from the Community Team about upcoming changes to our livestream schedule!

Community Video

For this week’s Community Video we join none other than Airforceproud95 operating a regional airliner flight from New York (JFK) to Chicago O’Hare (ORD), although things don’t exactly go to plan!

As is always the case, this was a very entertaining video from Airforceproud95, so go and check it out: