April 3rd, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is X user @CpuGeta486! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

Beta testing for Sim Update 2 continues! Since last week’s Development Update blog post, we have released two additional pre-release test builds to volunteer testers. You can read the release notes for each of these two builds at the links below:

As always, we would like to thank everyone from the community who has enrolled in the public beta. Whether you are writing bug reports and feedback posts on the forums or just flying as normal and letting the automatic telemetry system submit data for the dev team to analyze, your participation is essential in helping us deliver the best possible Sim Update 2!

Finally, last week we published our Creator Spotlight for March. Please see the Community section below to read more information about Meagan S. Hobson, founder of Women Rock Wings, a media and lifestyle brand dedicated to celebrating and amplifying the voices of women in aviation and related communities. We love the work Meagan does and we are happy to highlight her!

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

No update this week.

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 62 NEW and 54 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

New Releases This Week
62 NEW Products: 31 ON PC, 31 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 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
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:
54 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 31 ON PC, 23 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
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC	Updated on PC	Updated on PC
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	Updated on Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and 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	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 50 NEW and 2 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
50 NEW Products: 26 ON PC, 24 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 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	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
2 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 1 ON PC, 1 ON XBOX
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 299 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	19	1	5	25
Mission	32	3	51	86
Scenery	19	4	2	25
Livery	0	0	4	4
Airport	17	1	11	29
Other	4	0	5	9
Total	91	9	78	178

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	15	3	19	37
Mission	2	0	0	2
Scenery	6	1	2	9
Livery	10	1	7	18
Airport	33	11	7	51
Other	0	1	3	4
Total	66	17	38	121

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Creator Highlight: Meagan S. Hobson

Our March Creator Highlight focuses on Meagan S. Hobson, founder of Women Rock Wings; a media and lifestyle brand dedicated to celebrating and amplifying the voices of women in aviation and related communities. She has over 18 years of dedicated military service in the United States Air Force Reserve, from different roles in Aircraft Maintenance to Air Force Chaplain.

With a multi-platform approach including a quarterly digital magazine, social media, live events, and brand collaborations, Women Rock Wings celebrates the impact and influence of women across aviation. They just came out with their first official full issue this month, which is available to read on their website. We had the opportunity to interview Meagan to find out more about her career, and her connection to Microsoft Flight Simulator!

You can read the interview in our full Creator Highlight article.

Community Fly-In Friday

This week, we’re exploring the Nile River as we fly from Luxor to Cairo in Egypt! Naturally, the flight will include a tour of the Giza pyramid complex, one of the most famous and recognizable landmarks in the world!

Click here for event details!

Rise of a Pilot – Career Mode Livestream

Join Microsoft Flight Simulator Community Manager SeedyL – a real-life private and glider pilot and former ground school (classroom) instructor at a flying school – as he teaches viewers about aviation using the Career Mode in Microsoft Flight Simualtor 2024!

In this livestream video series, SeedyL will start a new pilot career in MSFS 2024 and progress through the training and certifications, using the sim to explain aviation concepts and flight techniques encountered throughout Career Mode. If you’re new to flight simming, this will be a great opportunity to learn more about flying, and if you’re an experienced simmer, you can be entertained by SeedyL’s commentary or share your aviation expertise with other viewers in the chat who may have questions.

Viewers in Twitch chat will have the opportunity to vote on how SeedyL’s pilot career should proceed, for example voting on which missions to take next or which certifications to pursue.

SeedyL will be back in the cockpit next week on Tuesday, April 8th. All episodes will be broadcast on our official Twitch channel starting at 11:00am PT (1800 UTC).

Community Video

As is the case every year, the flight simulation community became fully immersed in April Fools Day earlier this week, including a brand new freeware Dragon that you can fly within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024… and yes it breathes fire! For this week’s Community Video we join Swiss001 who takes the Wyvern Mk.1 by Classic Aircraft Simulations for a fly. Watch out below!