NOVEMBER 30TH, 2023 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user ScenicAtol37419! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!

The release of Sim Update 14 is imminent, with a scheduled launch date of Tuesday, December 5! Earlier this week, we released a new SU_14 beta build (1.35.19.0) to volunteer testers. Among the highlights of this new build is the addition of a re-vamped Cirrus SR22T G6 from Working Title! You can read the full release notes of this pre-release test build on our forums here.

Earlier today, we released an update for Local Legend III: Dornier Do J Wal. The release notes are on our forums here, and a new PDF manual is available on our Aircraft Manuals page here.

Yesterday, we hosted another Developer Livestream! Our panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial answered many questions from the community and previewed some upcoming new features and enhancements to Microsoft Flight Simulator including improved ground handling, the World Hub, City Update V, Famous Flyer 8: Cessna 207, and World Update XVI: Caribbean! In case you missed it, you can watch the full video on our YouTube channel below. For those who prefer a written transcript, it is available on our forums here.

 

– MSFS Team

 

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

Click here for the web-friendly version of the Feedback Snapshot.

The Feedback Snapshot will return next week.

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Click here for the web-friendly version of the Development Roadmap.

During yesterday’s Developer Livestream, Jorg gave a sneak preview of the upcoming roadmap for 2024. You can see this new Roadmap at this link.

MARKETPLACE UPDATE

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

There are 104 new and 36 updated products in today’s Marketplace Update

MARKETPLACE BACKLOG

Current Backlog: 363 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

	Testing Status
Content Type	Initial Processing and Validation by MS	Testing in Progress by MS	Testing in Progress by 3P	Total
Aircraft	16	2	41	59
Mission	2	0	48	50
Scenery	29	2	27	58
Livery	18	0	14	32
Airport	18	7	28	53
Other	10	12	10	32
Total	93	23	168	284

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

	Testing Status
Content Type	Initial Processing and Validation by MS	Testing in Progress by MS	Testing in Progress by 3P	Total
Aircraft	6	2	9	17
Mission	2	0	0	2
Scenery	5	2	3	10
Livery	0	0	10	10
Airport	4	6	16	26
Other	3	2	9	14
Total	20	12	47	79

 

SDK UPDATE

ASOBO

• No Update this week.

WORKING TITLE / MSFS AVIONICS FRAMEWORK

• No Update this week.

THIRD PARTY UPDATES

• No Update this week.

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COMMUNITY FLY-IN FRIDAY

On December 1, 1973, the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea first gained self-governance after being formerly administered by Australia for nearly 60 years. Among aviation fans, PNG is known for its beautiful natural scenery and rugged, challenging airstrips made famous by the incredibly popular YouTuber Missionary Bush Pilot.

For Fly-In Friday this week, we’ll depart from the capital city of Port Moresby then fly on a generally northerly heading over the jungles of the Owen Stanley Range. Our flight will include several touch and go landings at bespoke airports, so make sure you have the free World Update XIII: Oceania installed from the in-sim Marketplace!

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

TUBELINER TUESDAY

Due to crew sickness this week’s Tubeliner Tuesday Episode was cancelled, however will return next week! Community Manager Chewwy will take us back into Scandinavia once again, this time to celebrate the final Boeing 737 flight operated by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). Departing Stockholm Arlanda (ESSA), and arriving into Oslo Gardermoen (ENGM), Chewwy will be flying this flight in the PMDG Boeing 737-700 on the VATSIM Multiplayer Network.

Event details are available here. Feel free to follow the flight on our Twitch channel!

COMMUNITY VIDEO

The Avro Vulcan is one of the most iconic aircraft ever to grace the skies, and although they no longer fly in the real world, you can now keep this warbird alive in Microsoft Flight Simulator with the recently released add-on by JustFlight.

YouTuber Q8Pilot walks us through the step by step process of waking this old bird up from a cold and dark start state, to having the four famous Rolls-Royce Olympus 201 engines up and running ready for takeoff in this week’s Community Video!

 

 

SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

This week’s screenshot challenge: The Jet Age

This past week’s Screenshot Challenge was Clear Prop!

Weekly Screenshot Challenge Winner: ScenicAtol37419 (Forums)

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NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – December 7th, 2023

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by David Mills

Just now, cmpbellsjc said:

You beat me by seconds.  🌲

Developer Livestream was one of the most interesting of the last months, not to say of the year. It was full of good news and advances of what is to come in the short term.

Thank you for sharing all this good news, from the Microsoft forums to ours.

11 hours ago, polosim said:

Developer Livestream was one of the most interesting of the last months, not to say of the year. It was full of good news and advances of what is to come in the short term.

Yeah, the aircraft physics and ground handling changes they announced for SU15 are awesome. They could have kept them entirely for FS 2024 but they decided to update MSFS with what was possible to port into it instead... 

3 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

 They could have kept them entirely for FS 2024 but they decided to update MSFS with what was possible to port into it instead... 

And that is a great and forward-looking decision..

Not only thinking for MSFS 2024, great !

cheers 😉