June 27th, 2024 - Development Update - Microsoft Flight Simulator

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Twitter user @ukaka5656! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!

The Microsoft Flight Simulator team had a fantastic time at FlightSimExpo 2024 in Las Vegas last weekend! Whether you were one of the thousands of simmers who attended the event live or you were able to follow the various product reveals and announcements from your home, we hope you enjoyed the festivities from the expo. We can’t thank the FSExpo organizers enough for making us feel welcome at the event, and, of course, we were incredibly humbled and grateful to meet so many Microsoft Flight Simulator fans over the weekend.

In case you missed it, our team presented two seminars during the expo. On Saturday, Jorg and Seb spoke at length about the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and personally introduced many of the development partners who will be assisting Microsoft and Asobo in creating our next generation sim. If you missed the presentation or want to watch it again, you can find it on YouTube here:

On Sunday, Julie, Mabel, and Todd from our Marketplace team delivered a presentation in which they revealed some data analytics from the MSFS2020 Marketplace and also previewed some new changes coming with the MSFS2024 Marketplace. The primary audience for this seminar was third-party developers, but regular simmers may also find the presentation interesting, too. You can watch it on YouTube here:

With all the excitement about MSFS2024, we’d forgive you if you forgot that we’re still supporting MSFS2020 as well! Next week, we’ll be launching our next City Update! City Update 09: United States Northeast is scheduled for release on July 2, just in time for the USA’s Independence Day holiday!

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Development Roadmap

Feedback Snapshot

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SDK UPDATE

Asobo

No update

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases

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There are 118 new and 91 updated products in this week’s Marketplace Update.

Released Earlier: 2 NEW Products, 2 UPDATED Products: 2 ON PC, 2 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

Released Thursday, June 20: 65 NEW Products: 33 ON PC, 32 ON XBOX
New on 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
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
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on Xbox

Released Monday, June 24: 13 NEW PRODUCTS: 7 ON PC, 6 ON 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

Released Thursday, June 27: 38 NEW PRODUCTS: 15 ON PC, 23 ON XBOX
New on Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on Xbox	New on Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on 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 and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on Xbox	New on Xbox
New on Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Released Thursday, June 20: 19 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 9 ON PC, 10 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 PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Released Monday, June 24: 29 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 15 ON PC, 14 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 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

Released Thursday, June 27: 41 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 20 ON PC, 21 ON 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 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

Marketplace Backlog

Current Backlog: 228 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	14	0	5	19
Mission	3	0	56	59
Scenery	16	0	4	20
Livery	2	0	12	14
Airport	23	0	13	36
Other	8	0	12	20
Total	66	0	102	168

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	5	0	8	13
Mission	0	0	0	0
Scenery	0	0	4	4
Livery	14	0	14	28
Airport	8	0	3	11
Other	2	0	2	4
Total	29	0	31	60

THIRD PARTY UPDATE

No update

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

FlightSimExpo 2024 is now over, but the memories and friendships made over the last weekend will live on! For our Community Fly-In this week, we’ll be journeying to Las Vegas, the host city of FSExpo. Joining us on the livestream will be many (MANY!) guests who attended the event, some of whom appeared on the main stage as panelists or seminar hosts. Whether you were able to join the fun in Vegas or just want to hear about everything that happened over the weekend, be sure to join us for this fly-in event!

For the best experience, please ensure you have both City Update 8: Las Vegas and World Update 2: USA installed. Both are available FREE from the in-sim Marketplace.

Event details are available here. All are welcome to participate!

Community Video

With the release of City Update 8: Las Vegas for all Microsoft Flight Simulator players, we join Crew Chief 3-6 for this week’s Community Video as they take a tour of this newly updated area in the UH-1H Huey helicopter.

Featuring a mixture of both in-sim footage and captures of the incredible triple monitor home cockpit setup Crew Chief uses, this immersive video is a really great watch for those of you yet to try our latest City Update!