Take flight into a region rich with tradition, culture and heritage — not to mention a fair share of myth and legend. From seats of royalty to centers of finance, bustling metropolitan hubs to sprawling farmsteads and cliffside villages, the splendor of the United Kingdom and Ireland is on full display with new dramatic upgrades and visual enhancements.

How to prepare for this update:

If you are using the manual cache feature, please make sure to delete it via the in-game menu and create an updated version as we performed some backend technical updates.
Some packages in your community folder may not have been updated and, as a result, may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior. Please move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title if you suffer from stability issues or long loading times.
After you download the newest update for Microsoft Flight Simulator, head to the Marketplace to download the free World Update.

RELEASE NOTES 1.13.15.0

PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY

Fixed various crashes across the title
Fixed a specific crash while using Little Navmap in Bush trip activities

WORLD

Several terrain spikes have been fixed, including incorrect cases of water elevation issues
Water masks have been updated across various locations in the world
Reduced the frequency of water artifacts appearing on cliffs
Noise issue affecting clouds has been fixed

VR

The ‘Activate/Deactivate VR’ button is now always displayed in the main menu (bottom left corner of the screen) when a VR headset is plugged in. If no controls are displayed on this button, then it means that no controls are bound to this action.
When the toolbar is opened, it does not block interactions anymore with other menus displayed in front of it.
The cursor doesn’t jump anymore when moving across the Options menu in the cockpit.
Gray boxes don’t appear anymore when using the ‘Travel to’ feature in VR.
After leaving VR mode, the sim window is no longer forced on top and the player can drag and drop any other window over it.

PLANES

Fixed induced speed calculation bug with bi propeller engines
Fixed the plane crash detection when landing on iced water with crash detection ‘ON’
Fixed swapped screens in DA62 TestPilot version
Fixed VS Knob Turn not working on the Airbus A320Neo
Improved flaps system of aircraft: Aircraft creators can now move the wing surface’s position and camber with each flap system at each flap level
Improved ground effect wing to ground interaction system to avoid pitch dip at rotation on some aircraft

NAVIGATION

Latest AIRAC cycle has been integrated and is now available

INPUT

CH ECLIPSE YOKE default preset have been added
Fixed Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant ENG 1+2 don’t start engines

SDK/Devmode

Dev mode:

New version of the console is now available
Fixed an issue related to UTF8 encoding in the BGL compiler

Scenery Editor:

New feature to group, rename, re-order, hide and lock items in the scene list
Fixed freeze during saving
New airport light system
Add a button in airport properties to generate taxiway signs
Improve heightmap edition
Don’t lock runway profile extremity
Fix taxiway sign size (wasn’t correctly serialized in BGL)

Aircraft Editor:

Fixed an issue with the saving of “static_thrust”
Added a new button in the Camera section of the aircraft editor to teleport the current developer camera to the position, rotation and zoom of the selected one.
Creation of a new tool to edit only a camera file (cameras.cfg) : it matches with the camera section of the aircraft editor

WASM:

Security vulnerabilities in the WASI layer have been reported and fixed
Fixed StringFormat conversion to NanoVG alignment in GDI+ layer
Reworked MouseAircraft left gauge to provide clearer information

Simconnect:

Fixed flight load/save (SimConnect_FlightLoad / SimConnect_FlightSave)

POINTS OF INTEREST

One Blackfriars
BT Tower
Newfoundland
St George Wharf Tower
Southbank Tower
20 Fenchurch Street/ Sky Garden
The Leadenhall Building / 122 Leadenhall Street
HSBC / 8 Canada Square
Tower 42
25 Canada Square / City Bank
22 Bishopsgate
Landmark Pinnacle
Heron Tower
One Park Drive
The Scalpel
The Madison
100 Bishopsgate
Aykon London One
30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin)
Strata
Palace of Holyroodhouse
Blenheim Palace
St. James’s Palace
Palace of Westminster
Glamis Castle
Buckingham Palace
Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone
Wolvesey Castle
Floors Castle
Balmoral Castle
Hillsborough Castle
Dublin Castle
Mount Stuart House
Blair Castle
Hampton Court Palace
Rock of Cashel
Stirling Castle
Warwick Castle
Windsor Castle
Blarney Castle
Eilean Donan Castle
Edinburgh Castle
Caernarfon Castle
Canterbury Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
Fountains Abbey
Lincoln Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
York Minster
Angel of the North
Blackpool Tower
British Airways i360 (Brighton)
Glenfinnan Viaduct
Humber Bridge
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Kelpies, The
Maritime Greenwich
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Royal Botanical Gardens
Royal Liver Building
Samson & Goliath (Cranes)
Spinnaker Tower
Stonehenge
Titanic Belfast
Tower of London
Wales Millenium Centre
Wallace Monument
All England Club
Anfield
Emirates Stadium
Goodison Park
Millennium Stadium
Old Trafford
St. James’ Park
Stamford Bridge
Twickenham Stadium
Villa Park
Wembley Stadium
Eden Project
London Eye
Southend Pier
Millennium Bridge London
Blackfriars Railway Bridge
Southwark Bridge
Cannon Street Railway Bridge
Blackfriars Bridge
Vauxhall Bridge
Grosvenor Bridge
One Canada Sqaure
Waterloo Bridge
Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges
Lambeth Bridge
Chelsea Bridge
Albert Bridge London
Battersea Bridge
Battersea Railway Bridge
Wandsworth Bridge
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Forth Rail Bridge
Forth Road Bridge
Queensferry Crossing
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge
Tees Transporter Bridge
Tower Bridge
Tyne Bridge
Westminster Bridge

…and more!

KNOWN ISSUES

A list of Known Issues will be updated here.

For users having the “Landmarks London City Pack by Orbx” bundle. The new enhanced scenery with the United Kingdom & Ireland update seems to create conflicts that prevent users from seeing any of the enhanced scenery expected. This is actively being worked on, but in the meantime, we recommend disabling this 3rd party scenery.