The Microsoft Flight Simulator team is delighted to introduce the free City Update II: France, which captures five beautiful cities: Amiens, Angers, Nantes, Nîmes, and Reims; and to celebrate the Paris Air Show, the update also includes the famed Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LFPB) in both standard and festival configurations

More infomation: https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-releases-city-update-ii-france-local-legend-09-latecoere-631/

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by Zangoose

Thanks for the heads up.

And here is Local Legend #9 - The Latécoère Model 631 for $14.99

Sorry, can’t embed the video. Many comments for the video are not very complimentary!

Video description: "Available now! To compliment City Update #2: France, Microsoft Flight Simulator today released the ninth aircraft in the “Local Legends” series of aircraft. From France’s Latécoère Corporation, the Model 631 is an all-metal, high-wing, six-engine flying boat - the last of the great trans-oceanic flying boat airliners. The Latécoère Model 631 includes an impressive sixteen liveries and is available today in the Microsoft Flight Simulator in-sim marketplace for $14.99. The sky is calling!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latécoère_631

Latécoère 631
Latécoère 631 - Wharf of Biscarrosse Lake
Role	flying boat
Manufacturer	Latécoère
Designer	Pierre-Georges Latécoère
First flight	4 November 1942
Number built	10 (plus the prototype)

The Latécoère 631 was a civil transatlantic flying boatbuilt by Latécoère, the largest ever built up to its time. The type was not a success, being unreliable and uneconomic to operate. Five of the eleven aircraft built were written off in accidents and one was lost during World War II.

 

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by The Flight Level

Out of the blue, there is excellent free Bristol type 188 at FS.to as well.  Getting good reviews.

https://flightsim.to/file/56852/bristol-type-188-flaming-pencil

I might give it a flight from Farnborough to Le Bourget tonight. 
Although probably would have flown from Filton originally, but not sure if that is in the sim any more (I was told they they have built houses now where the runway used to be 😕).

1 hour ago, The Flight Level said:

And here is Local Legend #9 - The Latécoère Model 631 for $14.99

Sorry, can’t embed the video. Many comments for the video are not very complimentary!

Video description: "Available now! To compliment City Update #2: France, Microsoft Flight Simulator today released the ninth aircraft in the “Local Legends” series of aircraft. From France’s Latécoère Corporation, the Model 631 is an all-metal, high-wing, six-engine flying boat - the last of the great trans-oceanic flying boat airliners. The Latécoère Model 631 includes an impressive sixteen liveries and is available today in the Microsoft Flight Simulator in-sim marketplace for $14.99. The sky is calling!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latécoère_631

Latécoère 631
Latécoère 631 - Wharf of Biscarrosse Lake
Role	flying boat
Manufacturer	Latécoère
Designer	Pierre-Georges Latécoère
First flight	4 November 1942
Number built	10 (plus the prototype)

The Latécoère 631 was a civil transatlantic flying boatbuilt by Latécoère, the largest ever built up to its time. The type was not a success, being unreliable and uneconomic to operate. Five of the eleven aircraft built were written off in accidents and one was lost during World War II.

 

Why they have chosen a flopboat (pun intended) as a legend for a sim which has no decent water physics to speak of escapes me.

If any Latécoère was a legend that would be the Laté 28 with which Mermoz opened the commercial line between Dakar and Recife.

This thread has reminded me to delete a few of the world updates for parts of the world I know I have little or no interest in flying from. Been meaning to do that for ages but keep forgetting. I have always installed all of these updates without thinking too much but it's pointless having GB's of world updates for areas I have no interest in. I'm looking at you Australia. 

13 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

Why they have chosen a flopboat (pun intended) as a legend for a sim which has no decent water physics to speak of escapes me.

If any Latécoère was a legend that would be the Laté 28 with which Mermoz opened the commercial line between Dakar and Recife.

Yes, reading the history on this one … not a great story. A legend for the wrong reasons. Speaking of water physics, I wish the splash zone around the hulls of float planes could be better animated. That sharp line interface could use some tweaking.

18 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

Why they have chosen a flopboat (pun intended) as a legend for a sim which has no decent water physics to speak of escapes me.

It escapes me as well. But I guess it is based on the same "thinking" as releasing snow coverage and world updates of regions clearly bugged by the snow coverage misery when using live weather. And of course it once more just ridicules the statement by Jörg "we do not want to have half-baked solutions in MSFS" when being asked why it takes them so long to implement seasons. 

33 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

This thread has reminded me to delete a few of the world updates for parts of the world

I'm looking at you Australia. 

if you do - you will be looking at a 10 year old Australia - even after the lauded update😟

4 minutes ago, jaytee73 said:

if you do - you will be looking at a 10 year old Australia - even after the lauded update😟

As I never fly there, it doesn't really matter 😉

edit - likewise Japan. Just got rid of that update too. 

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by St Mawgan

Nice update but a big visual bug on the Cheviré bridge pillars in Nantes!!

the free LFPB looks great.

IIRC it was made by Inibuilds.

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by Tuskin38

Meh…. that’s a no from me. Now AAU2, instant download. You’ll find me in the UAL 78X next weekend though iniBuilds have stated updates to their A310 are in AAU2 as well.

2 hours ago, The Flight Level said:

Yes, reading the history on this one … not a great story. A legend for the wrong reasons.  

I reckon they don't read much history in general and speaking of "a legend for the wrong reasons", their  first Local Legend is mostly notorious as the German workhorse of airborne assaults in WW2. How tasteful 😁 !

the bridges captured by photogrammetry in the new areas have been carved out so they don't look like a solid mass.

These bridges in Nantes are not handcrafted, it's photogrammetry. I guess you could call it hand carved 😛

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by Tuskin38