This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user ZeekR5430! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!
On Tuesday, we released Patch 3 (v1.2.7.0) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This update contains fixes to hundreds of bugs and issues that players have experienced since the November 19 launch. You can read the full release notes here. As always, we are very closely monitoring the community’s feedback and bug reports on our forums and elsewhere.
There will, of course, be many more updates coming in the future, including both Sim Update 1 and World Update 19: Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname which are both targeted for release in early 2025!
– MSFS Team
Development Update
feedback snapshot – Bugs
feedback snapshot – wishlist
Marketplace
Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)
Click here for the web-friendly version of the Marketplace Update.
There are 60 NEW and 78 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update.
Released Monday, December 9: |
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16 NEW Products: 8 ON PC, 8 ON XBOX |
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Released Thursday, December 12: |
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44 NEW Products: 22 ON PC, 22 ON XBOX |
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New on PC and Xbox |
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New on PC and Xbox |
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New on PC and Xbox |
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New on PC and Xbox |
New on PC and Xbox |
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New on PC and Xbox |
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New on PC and Xbox |
New on PC and Xbox |
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Updated Monday, December 9: |
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22 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 11 ON PC, 11 ON XBOX |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated Thursday, December 12: |
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56 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 27 ON PC, 29 ON XBOX |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Updated on PC and Xbox |
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Marketplace Backlog
Current Backlog: 371 Total
BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS
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| Content Type | In MS Processing | In MS Testing | In 3P Testing | Total | |
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| Aircraft | 19 | 0 | 3 | 22 | |
| Mission | 5 | 22 | 87 | 114 | |
| Scenery | 20 | 1 | 2 | 23 | |
| Livery | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 | |
| Airport | 10 | 8 | 14 | 32 | |
| Other | 10 | 0 | 4 | 14 | |
| Total | 69 | 33 | 115 | 217 | |
BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS
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| Content Type | In MS Processing | In MS Testing | In 3P Testing | Total | |
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| Aircraft | 18 | 7 | 16 | 41 | |
| Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Scenery | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 | |
| Livery | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | |
| Airport | 23 | 11 | 12 | 46 | |
| Other | 13 | 13 | 3 | 29 | |
| Total | 65 | 39 | 50 | 154 | |
Community
Community Fly-In Friday
The Community Fly-In Friday World Tour continues, and now for the first time in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as well!
In this week’s stage, we’ll pick up where we left off back on November 15, starting in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, and flying into Poland where we will make our full-stop landing in Warsaw.
For many new pilots coming from MSFS 2024 who might be joining the World Tour for the first time, please note that you do not have to complete all the prior legs of the tour to join this stage! This event is open to everyone whether you’ve been with the World Tour from the very beginning or if this is your first time joining one of our official weekly group flights!
Event details are available here. All are welcome to participate!
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.
New episodes are broadcast every Tuesday on our official Twitch channel starting at 11:00am PT (1900 UTC).
If you missed last week’s first episode, you can watch the VOD on Twitch here.
Community Video
One of the new aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the Joby S4 eVTOL, so what better way to learn how to correctly operate this aircraft than by the manufacturer themselves?! Check out this awesome example of just how versatile the Joby S4 is with this flight demonstration by the Joby Aviation team:
Screenshot challenge
This week’s screenshot challenge: Flying in a Winter Wonderland
This past week’s Screenshot Challenge was: Finding Fauna
Weekly Screenshot Challenge Winner: ZeekR5430 (Forum)
Screenshot by @vp_sim (Twitter)
Screenshot by ZILLNIAZI17 (Forum)
Screenshot by HeKa48 (Forum)
Screenshot by BlunterYT (Forum)
Screenshot by @CpuGeta486 (Twitter)
Screenshot by @ukaka5656 (Twitter)
Screenshot by @AvionChibi (Twitter)
Screenshot by @ARROW2929 (Twitter)
Screenshot by @m4TJTrvIyOGaOFj (Twitter)
Screenshot by @klrkjp1 (Twitter)
NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – December 19th, 2024
Sincerely,
Microsoft Flight Simulator Team