March 6th, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner for our iniBuilds Airbus A350 Giveaway is Forum user woooshboom! Thank you to everybody who entered this week’s competition. There were some outstanding submissions! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 1 (1.3.23.0) is available now on all platforms! You can read the (very lengthy) release notes here. Sim Update 1 contains hundreds of bug fixes and improvements and is one of the largest updates released yet for either MSFS (2020) or MSFS 2024. Once again, we would like to thank everyone who participated in the public beta test for your feedback and bug reports. Your contributions were essential in helping our development team deliver the best possible Sim Update. But the work hasn’t stopped! Development of Sim Update 2 is underway. Stay tuned for more information about how you can join the SU2 beta once it’s available. This update will be even bigger than SU1!

While Sim Update 1 is out now, one of its biggest additions, the long-awaited in-sim Marketplace, is not quite ready. Our team is making some final tweaks to the Marketplace now, and we’re excited to report that it will be launching soon.

Speaking of things launching soon, World Update 19: Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana is releasing next week on Tuesday, March 11! We know many flight sim fans, particularly those from Brazil, have been waiting very patiently for this World Update, and we hope you’ll find it was worth the wait!

Also next week, we have planned maintenance for our official forums on Wednesday, March 12 starting at 11:30am Pacific Time (1930 UTC). While the maintenance is in progress, the forums will temporarily be unavailable.

Our next monthly Developer Livestream will be next Friday, March 14! Join our regular panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial as they discuss Sim Update 1, World Update 19, and more! If you would like to submit a question to the panel in advance, you can do so by completing this web form. As always, we will be taking live questions from viewers from the chat, so be sure to follow our official Twitch channel so you can be notified when the stream goes live. Immediately following the Developer Livestream, we will begin our weekly Community Fly-In Friday event, so stick around and enjoy a beautiful group flight with many fellow simmers — pilots on both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 and both PC and Xbox are welcome!

Last but not least, March 3-9 is Women of Aviation Week! The Microsoft Flight Simulator team salutes all the hard-working and capable women working around the world as pilots, air traffic controllers, dispatchers, mechanics, flight attendants, and every other aviation career! To mark this occasion, we will be participating in a Women in Aviation event at Springbank Airport (CYBW) near Calgary, Alberta, Canada hosted by Mount Royal University. If you’re in the Calgary area on Saturday, March 8, stop by Springbank to meet some members of the Flight Sim team and learn more about various aviation careers. This is an all-ages, family friendly event designed to introduce and inspire the next generation of aviation professionals. Admission is free! Full event details are here.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title

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Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

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

There are 50 NEW and 36 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update.

Released Monday, March 3:
4 NEW Products: 2 ON PC, 2 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Released Thursday, March 6:
22 NEW Products: 12 ON PC, 10 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
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 Monday, March 3:
38 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 20 ON PC, 18 ON XBOX
Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on 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	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

Updated Thursday, March 6:
59 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 30 ON PC, 29 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	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 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 Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Backlog: 387 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	13	5	4	22
Mission	44	4	110	158
Scenery	14	3	6	23
Livery	3	0	2	5
Airport	22	5	13	40
Other	3	3	7	13
Total	99	20	142	261

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	27	2	8	37
Mission	0	0	20	20
Scenery	0	1	3	4
Livery	5	0	7	12
Airport	21	5	22	48
Other	2	0	3	5
Total	55	8	63	126

Third Party Update

As of 02/09, we have now approved 295 (+0) third parties into the in-sim marketplace and – so far 247 (+0) have released 4,778 products on PC (+392) and 4,539 153 on Xbox (+386).
In total, 5,443 products (+452) have already been released in 3^rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 803 products (-10) from 3^rd party developers are in production (319 announced, 484 unannounced). In total, over 6,246 3^rd party products (+441) have either been released or are in development.
Airports:
- 2,593 airports (+181) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 2,401 airports (+171) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 1,935 airports (+199) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
  - 89 airports (-8) beyond the released airports have been announced.
  - 103 airports (+18) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
Aircraft:
- 943 aircraft (+15) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 473 aircraft (+25) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 395 aircraft (+27) have been released in the in-sim PC marketplace.
  - 381 aircraft (+29) have been released in the in-sim Xbox marketplace.
  - 209 aircraft (-2) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
  - 261 aircraft (-8) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
Scenery:
- 1,302 scenery packs (+56) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 1,261 scenery packs (+52) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 822 scenery packs (+53) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
  - 20 scenery packs (+0) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
  - 21 scenery packs (+4) are not announced but the dev let us know that scenery is in production
Mission Packs:
- 781 mission packs (+153) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 746 mission packs (+159) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 685 mission packs (+161) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
  - 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.
  - 35 mission packs (-8) are not announced, but the dev let us know that they are in production.
Livery Packs:
- 580 livery packs (+35) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 526 livery packs (+37) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 517 livery packs (+37) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
  - 1 livery pack (+0) beyond the released scenery has been announced.
  - 53 livery packs (-2) are not announced, but the dev let us know that scenery is in production.
Ships & Watercraft:
- 47 ships & watercraft (+1) are either released or are in various stages of development.
  - 36 ships (+6) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
  - 27 ships (+2) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
  - 0 ships (+0) beyond the released ships have been announced.
  - 11 ships (-5) are not announced, but dev let us know that ships are in production.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

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, March 11th. All episodes will be broadcast on our official Twitch channel starting at 11:00am PT (1900 UTC).

Community Video

We’re featuring a new creator this week, as we join Pulse for a transatlantic journey across the ocean from Boston Logan International, to London’s Heathrow airport.

Flying the default Airbus A330 for MSFS 2024, Pulse showcases the complexity of this long-haul airliner, with some beautiful visuals to complement!