Work on Aircraft & Avionics Update 1 (AAU1) continues to go well in advance of its expected release date later this month. We released a new beta build (1.30.11.0) to testers earlier this week. Players participating in the AAU1 beta can read the release notes for 1.30.11.0 here. AAU1 is the first of three planned Aircraft & Avionics updates slated for 2023.

Looking beyond AAU1, the next two major updates to Microsoft Flight Simulator will be World Update 12: New Zealand in February and Sim Update 12 in March. Among other bug fixes and improvements, SU12 will include the long-awaited support for WASM aircraft on Xbox.

These three updates are just the first of several things we have planned for 2023. Stay tuned for more information!

MSFS Team

 

https://www.flightsimulator.com/january-12th-2023-development-update/

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by penta_a

Any word that they would ever fix the 787 or 747 without outside modifications? People still prefer X-Plane and P3D for long haulers as they are dominant in those sims and would be popular in MSFS too.

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by jbdbow1970

15 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Any word that they would ever fix the 787 or 747 without outside modifications? People still prefer X-Plane and P3D for long haulers as they are dominant in those sims and would be popular in MSFS too.

What is wrong with the 787 and/ore the 747 ?

If u using the mods for this planes ( Salty, B78XH ) i would say it is not bad at all..

And by the way i am doeing a lot long hauls with this two aircraft and enjoy it a lot !

cheers 😉

A310 is working well as long hauler.

8 hours ago, pmplayer said:

What is wrong with the 787 and/ore the 747 ?

 

Delette. Other than that they are garbage. Need some TLC Like they are trying to hype the CJ4 or Ciatation.

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by jbdbow1970

19 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

but the keep pushing that AAU1 avionics that no one cares about.

Matt at WT has already confirmed that the vast majority of MSFS users are GA fliers so it makes a lot of sense for the initial roll out of the AAU to cater to them. Targeting airliners first would be more about getting clout imo, not that there's anything wrong with that.

@penta_a Thanks for posting the update. Wasn’t sure if anyone was going to since it seems that ChaoticBeauty seems to have left the building. First 🌲for you.

On 1/13/2023 at 7:20 AM, jbdbow1970 said:

Any word that they would ever fix the 787 or 747 without outside modifications? People still prefer X-Plane and P3D for long haulers as they are dominant in those sims and would be popular in MSFS too.

How are the default 747 and 787 in P3D and X-Plane? ... oops... 

People who care about system depth in airliners have never been satisfied with the default aircraft because they have a tradition of being really bad and superficial. That's why ambitious simmers *always* had to wait for study-level aircraft for years after release, especially when the programming interface changed a lot, as was the case with MSFS.

So yeah, I get it why people stick to the older sims as long as their favourite aircraft isn't available in MSFS at the expected quality and depth. But I don't follow why you expect great long-hauler experience out of the box with MSFS (which no other flight sim had), especially when there are good options available. They may not cover every specific need and expectation, but the market is growing at a fast pace.

We're at a bit more than 2 years after release, and we already have lots of high-quality ("study-level") aircraft from 3rd party developers and modders. But at this point in time it's expected that the add-on market is still growing and not every important aircraft has a good representation in MSFS yet.

BTW, I'm really glad they took the CJ4 and the Longitude to a good level. Makes sense for Working Title to start with these aircraft, as they already have lots of experience in modelling the CJ4. Both are amazing to fly now in MSFS.

And yes, I heard Jörg or Matt say they're going to address the issues with the 747 and 787. Not sure where to find it though, and for now we don't know whether they'll get the same in-depth treatment as the CJ4 and Longitude, but it wouldn't surprise me. 

 

On 1/13/2023 at 7:41 AM, pmplayer said:

People still prefer X-Plane and P3D

not "people", a few "people". 😊

On 1/13/2023 at 8:39 AM, Krakin said:

Matt at WT has already confirmed that the vast majority of MSFS users are GA fliers so it makes a lot of sense for the initial roll out of the AAU to cater to them. Targeting airliners first would be more about getting clout imo, not that there's anything wrong with that.

After 2 years I have yet to fly a tube in MSFS.

sp

On 1/13/2023 at 12:20 AM, jbdbow1970 said:

Any word that they would ever fix the 787 or 747 without outside modifications? People still prefer X-Plane and P3D for long haulers as they are dominant in those sims and would be popular in MSFS too.

Totally agree; the biggest negative FOR ME right now in MSFS is the lack of a "study level" long hauler (excluding the A300). We have a gorgeous model of the 78X, yet 3 years later... without the HEAVY mod, it's useless... and the HEAVY mod barely adds additional value due to it being locked by Asobo.

On 1/13/2023 at 2:20 AM, jbdbow1970 said:

Any word that they would ever fix the 787 or 747

Almost certain it was said that Working Title would be tackling them eventually.

 

2 hours ago, moxiejeff said:

due to it being locked by Asobo.

They got rid of the encryption on the config files with SU10 or 11, either way it's been unencrypted for a while.

Edited January 15, 20233 yr by Tuskin38

When are we going to get a functional mission script editor?

On 1/14/2023 at 5:50 PM, Sky_Pilot071 said:

After 2 years I have yet to fly a tube in MSFS.

sp

That's your problem then. Since the CRJ release, the subsequent continuous improvement of the FBW A320Neo, the 737 releases from PMDG and the A320CEO from Fenix, I hardly fly anything else than commercial airliner ops in MSFS.

1 hour ago, Farlis said:

I hardly fly anything else than commercial airliner ops in MSFS.

so?