January 9th, 2025 Development Update

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!

After a break for the holiday season to recharge, refresh, and spend time with our families, we’re back this week and hard at work updating Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024!

As we begin the new year, our teams are focused on delivering the first major updates, including Sim Update 1, while also finalizing preparations for the Marketplace launch in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. We have analyzed all the feedback provided over the past weeks and months and are prioritizing bug fixes and improvements based on community input. Because of this, we are spending this week working on the Feedback Snapshot and will have an updated version for you in next week’s blog. We are also excited to announce that World Update: Brazil is on the horizon! These updates are coming soon, and we will provide more information on the timeline as it becomes available. We appreciate your support as we continue to enhance the simming experience for our community.

On Tuesday, we released a server-side fix for an issue that was preventing certain Career Mode mission types from appearing. These missions should now once again be available. Earlier today, we released a small hotfix patch (1.2.11.0) to resolve an issue that was causing avionics in some aircraft to be non-functional on Xbox and for PC players using Low or Medium graphics settings.

We are currently planning our next Developer Livestream. While we’re still coordinating the schedules of our panel members and guests and don’t have a date locked in yet, we have activated the web form where you can pre-submit a question. Our team will review all the submissions and ensure the most frequently asked questions from the community are addressed by the panel during the broadcast. As always, you can watch the livestream on our official Twitch channel, so be sure to follow it and enable notifications so you’re informed whenever the broadcast starts.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

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

There are 71 NEW and 85 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update.

Released Monday, December 30:
8 NEW Products: 5 ON PC, 3 ON XBOX
New on PC	New on PC	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Released Thursday, January 2:
18 NEW Products: 9 ON PC, 9 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

Released Monday, January 6:
1 NEW Products: 1 ON PC, 0 ON XBOX
	New on PC

Released Thursday, January 9:
44 NEW Products: 21 ON PC, 23 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 Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Updated Monday, December 30:
20 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 13 ON PC, 7 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC	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	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
	Updated on PC

Updated Thursday, January 2:
20 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 11 ON PC, 9 ON 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 Monday, January 6:
2 UPDATED Products: 1 ON PC, 1 ON XBOX
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Updated Thursday, January 9:
43 UPDATED Products: 19 ON PC, 24 ON 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 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 and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Backlog: 297 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	22	0	8	30
Mission	30	2	66	98
Scenery	16	0	2	18
Livery	5	0	5	10
Airport	13	0	16	29
Other	15	0	4	19
Total	101	2	101	204

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	13	0	19	32
Mission	0	0	0	0
Scenery	12	0	6	18
Livery	0	0	9	9
Airport	15	0	15	30
Other	1	1	2	4
Total	41	1	51	93

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

Welcome back from the holiday break! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re now fully into the winter season, and we couldn’t think of better way to escape from the cold than a flight to sunny Hawai’i!

We’ll be departing from Hilo on the Big Island and then making our way westbound to Maui, Molokai, and Oahu. There will be several touch & go landings en route (including the state capital of Honolulu) before our full stop at Dillingham Airfield on Oahu’s northwest coast.

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.

After a brief hiatus for the holiday break, we will be returning to our regular weekly schedule next week on Tuesday, January 14. All episodes will be broadcast on our official Twitch channel starting at 11:00am PT (1900 UTC).

Community Video

Have you ever wanted to take your airliner operations to the next level of realism? Well you can now thanks to a new video series by A330 Driver and their “A330 Virtual Type Rating” playlist!

Covering real world procedures on how to operate this aircraft, which is included as one of the new default aircraft for all Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 players, A330 Driver brings his professional knowledge of the flying the real plane to allow you all an opportunity to learn just what goes into operating a heavy airliner in the modern day.