Introduction

This utility will allow you to check which of your modded airports in your MSFS 2024 Community folder also have Asobo / Microsoft / Marketplace Streamed Packages, the latter of which you'll want to disable through the game, or override using this tool.

Streamed Packages, including Airports, can be disabled through the game's UI via the Content Manager. This tool offers an alternative way to doing that by creating an override with the same name in your Community folder. This application will scan your Community and Streamed Packages, suggest overrides you should create in your Community folder, and even create them for you.

 

News

Dec 10 2024: Asobo / Microsoft released an update for MSFS 2024 that allows users to disable individual Streamed Packages through the in-game Content Manager! This means that this tool is no longer necessary, but will remain available as an alternative. My recommendation is that you remove any overrides you created using this tool and use the in-game Content Manager moving forward.

The "Check for Missing Overrides" functionality of this tool is still useful to know which Streamed Packages you might want to disable / override, or to disable all streamed packages you want to override en masse.

Similar functionality is offered also in the much more robust and full-featured Addon Linker tool, under Tools > Scan ICAO / Check for duplicates.

 

Should I use Links, Empty Folders, or disable in Content.xml?

Links and Empty Folders are different methods to accomplish the same goal: Fooling MSFS 2024 into not using a streamed package from first-party or the marketplace.

Links will link your addon scenery with the name of the streamed package. Note that this will make your addon appear to be in your Community folder twice, but that's not a problem.

Empty folders will create an empty folder with the name of the streamed package. 

Links are the recommended method based on feedback from users, as the Empty Folders overrides appear to work for some streamed packages but not all, while Links have worked for all tested so far.

In order to switch between Empty Folders and Links, you'll want to use the Remove Overrides functionality first.

On the other hand, disabling streamed packages in Content.xml replicates the in-game Content Manager behavior when you disable a package through it, so that is the safest option. However, if you want to undo any overrides you add to Content.xml through this tool, you'll have to restore Content.xml from backup, or re-enable the packages manually from the Content Manager, or by editing the .xml file itself.

 

Can I use this in conjunction with Addon Linker?

Yes, you absolutely can. Just make sure that you remove any overrides through this tool before enabling / disabling addons through Addon Linker, and that you add the overrides again once you're done switching up which addons you have enabled and before you launch the game.

 

Download

Download from flightsim.to: Airport Override Checker for MSFS 2024 for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

 

Source Code

This utility is open-source under the MIT License. Find it on GitHub.

 

Discord / Support

Join the conversation here or on Discord.

 

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by Leftos

Now with SU1 Beta compatibility. Versions 0.5.3 onwards should be compatible with both the Retail and SU1 Beta versions of the game, across Steam and MS Store.

For the more technically inclined: The StreamedPackages folder has been moved to the same parent directory as the Community folder, while the Content.xml file remains at the same location.