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Blue skies,

-B

Edited October 31, 2025Oct 31 by btacon

It becomes a kind-of rule 🙂 New Beta versions are released on Friday afternoon (CET). Then french devs enjoy their week-end while Beta testers (hopefully) enjoy the new version and feed devs with data.

Source: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-update-4-beta-1-6-21-0-release-notes-october-31-2025/744870

 

Stability & Performance

• Fixed some pop-in when invisible objects are changed to be visible.
• Fixed the erroneous formatting of a Fuel System error message that could cause a crash

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed soft lock when exiting settings menu right after a modification
• Fixed random crashes in XML Gauges loading (fixes crashes when selecting the A2A Comanche in the Aircraft Selector)
• Fixed crash when launching a flight and cancelling the loading with plane containing Wasm Modules
• Fixed avatar image transparency when HDR is off on a compatible display

Aircraft

• Fixed missing shadows for certain aircraft on Low/Medium graphics presets
• Fixed an issue that caused Approach.FLT to be loaded on skip to descent, even on cases where the aircraft should in a final configuration. It should now load final.FLT.

Aircraft Gameplay

External HUD

• Fixed an issue that caused the External HUD’s Helicopter Power gauge to incorrectly show the power command needle at 120% when the collective is at 100%

Career

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed Aircraft statistic showing in freelance aircraft selection when no aircraft on site can be selected as current aircraft
• Fixed company name rendered right to left when spawning in a place where local alphabet was rendered right to left

World

• Fixed lights missing on vertical obstacles (wind turbines, com mast …)
• Fixed a crash in specific areas of the world when photogrammetry was set to active and the camera was very close to the ground.

Airports

• Fixed beacon light jittering when moving camera (regression SU4)
• Fixed vegetation appearing too close to runway

DevMode

• Updated SimVars watcher to match the actual data (SimVars) in the Sim.

Scenery Editor

• Fixed crash when disabling/enabling devmode
• Fixed fast light distance for VectorPlacement and instanced models.
• Fixed bounding box culling issue with instanced models.

SimObject Editor

• Updated Career Compatibility tab UI to display targeted specializations in a better way

SDK

General

• Changed the way procedural profile are loaded. It is now possible to add content to an existing profile by adding a profile file (with the same profile name) in the VFS

SimVars

• Added a new SimVar VORTEX_RING_STATE_PROTECTION_ASSISTANCE_IMPACT which indicates how much the current collective lever position has been increased by the Vortex Ring State Protection Assistance, compared to the player’s input.

WASM API

• Fixed failed gauges visual feedback showing for all those of a VCockpit even if only a subset failed (fixes
• A320 CLOCK gauge erroneously showed as failed)
• Fixed infinite loading when lauching a flight with a plane containing a VCockpit contains multiple WASM gauges that reference a module that doesn’t exist

Samples

• Fixed typo in wasm samples. Replaced XXX_gauge_kull by XXX_gauge_kill

Edited October 31, 2025Oct 31 by vbazillio

4 minutes ago, btacon said:

Just dropped.  No notes. Will update when available.

Blue skies,

-B

Please, do add "Beta" to the subject title.

Thanks

First flight. I can’t even remove the overlayed instruments and the SHIFT+C message window. Despite having Settings→General→Flight Interface->Hud in cockpit View set to OFF.

EDIT: Relaunched MSFS, HUD Instruments are correctly OFF. But I still have the “SHIFT+C Exit Aircraft” window ;(

Voted here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/shift-c-to-exit-aircraft-remove-ui/744934

Edited October 31, 2025Oct 31 by vbazillio

1 minute ago, vbazillio said:

First flight. I can’t even remove the overlayed instrument (despite having Settings→General→Flight Interface->Hud in cockpit View set to OFF

That's bad

@vbazillioyour screenshots cannot be seen by anyone in the UK due to new laws protecting young people.

Use a different hosting company to the one you’re currently using.

Vincent, as soon as you'll release parking brakes and begin taxiing the SHIFT+C message will disappear.

3 minutes ago, David Roch said:

Vincent, as soon as you'll release parking brakes and begin taxiing the SHIFT+C message will disappear.

That was so simple. Thanks. I need to move. As soon as I'm stopped (with or without parking brakes) the SHIFT+C message re-appeared.

56 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

@vbazillioyour screenshots cannot be seen by anyone in the UK due to new laws protecting young people.

Use a different hosting company to the one you’re currently using.

Didn‘t expect you to be that young but rest assured you would not want to see that picture 😉

1 hour ago, David Roch said:

Vincent, as soon as you'll release parking brakes and begin taxiing the SHIFT+C message will disappear.

OMG I can only hope this not a new "feature" added by Asobo.  Nobody can REALLY think this a good idea.  I am sometimes in the cockpit stopped (doing pre-flight and startup procedures) for 15+ minutes before rolling.  I fly in VR and can't think of anything more immersion breaking than having to see this ridiculous message plastered on the screen the entire time...  I'm not sure what is a more scary thought:  That Asobo thinks we all want to see "[Shift+[C] Exit Aircraft" any time our aircraft is stationary... or it's a bug that effects 100% of users the second they start a flight, yet was somehow missed in testing before this beta was released to the masses.

3 minutes ago, PlumCrazy said:

OMG I can only hope this not a new "feature" added by Asobo.  Nobody can REALLY think this a good idea.  I am sometimes in the cockpit stopped (doing pre-flight and startup procedures) for 15+ minutes before rolling.  I fly in VR and can't think of anything more immersion breaking than having to see this ridiculous message plastered on the screen the entire time...  I'm not sure what is a more scary thought:  That Asobo thinks we all want to see "[Shift+[C] Exit Aircraft" any time our aircraft is stationary... or it's a bug that effects 100% of users the second they start a flight, yet was somehow missed in testing before this beta was released to the masses.

Add that to the fact that they will still not implement a proper 'Pause" function - I sometimes wonder what goes through their minds in the design phase.

The HUD Display (in cockpit) has reappeared when airborne, getting into the menu, then getting back in cockpit. And no way to remove it.

1 hour ago, vbazillio said:

That was so simple. Thanks. I need to move. As soon as I'm stopped (with or without parking brakes) the SHIFT+C message re-appeared.

Don't be surprised. I do really hope it's not true. The same idiotic idea, like having that woman captain walking on a ramp/taxiway by herself towards that A330. I wonder what is on their mind? Now, a new one with the SHIFT+C message, so do they use any common sense? When you taxi in/out and have to stop short of anything (ramp, taxiway, or runway), do they expect us to exit the aircraft? This is what you get when you have people who have no idea what they are doing. I do really hope this is something temporary and start inquiring about people's qualifications at this MSFS/ASOBO.

1 hour ago, vbazillio said:

That was so simple. Thanks. I need to move. As soon as I'm stopped (with or without parking brakes) the SHIFT+C message re-appeared.

Pretty good emersion killer........

11 minutes ago, LRBS said:

This is what you get when you have people who have no idea what they are doing

You have your hands on one of the most successful (in every way) sims out there and yet you label Aboso's team as people "who have no idea what they are doing" I call that insulting, quite ridiculous to get so upset for such a trivial mistake.

chill, it will get fixed.

Edited October 31, 2025Oct 31 by CarlosF