RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 5 Beta - 1.7.11.0

If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.

If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.

New Content and Features

• Following community feedback, we now offer you the possibility to enable or disable the movements of ground services in the airports. Find this option in the “Assistances” section, at the very end.

General Bug Fixes

• Thanks to community, we disabled AI copilot control when using the virtual cursor in the ‘All Assists’ Assistance preset.
• Fixed an issue where searching for certain POIs using their full name would sometimes not properly find them when they exist in the world

Backwards Compatibility Bug Fixes

• Fixed sound clip distance too low with FS2020 packages

Aircraft Core Systems

Hydraulic System

• Fixed system behavior for looping fluid systems.

EFB

• Fixed a regression where the EFB was automatically changed to horizontal mode when expanded while being externalized
• Planner App - Changed default MZFW to be MTOW (if present) or max gross in cases where CFG value is missing, to fix issues with the payload slider on many aircraft

Career

• Improved cruise altitude selection for missions.

Airports

Generic Airports

• EHVRQ - Fixed helipad needed to be closed according to real life

• KCPP : Fixed wrong ICAO : 3J7 to KCPP
• KBRG : Fixed wrong ICAO : E80 to KBRG
• KBCR : Fixed wrong ICAO : 1J0 to KBCR
• KBFZ : Fixed wrong ICAO : 8A0 to KBFZ
• 0CN1 : Fixed missing buildings into airport area

Controls

• Updated localization of “MENU SCROLL UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT” into MENU GAUGE UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT" to reflect their updated behaviour.

• Scrolling is now done with “MENU SCROLL AXIS X/Y”

Peripherals

• Mapped Photo mode camera tilt on VR right hand controller default profiles

Activities

Rally Races

• Fixed an issue causing some aircraft to bounce off of rally races pylons rather than back on track when colliding with them with the propeller.

DevMode

General

• Renamed Statistics Profiler to Scenery Statistics
• Fixed possible crash when using fspackagetool.exe with a Steam build and modelbehaviors files
• Merged both simobjects stats dialogs

SDK

Exporter Blender

• Fixed open lid in DA62 sample.

nothing that concerns me, but - 1.7.11.0 is more than - 1.7.10.0  😄

DLSS swapper time again, do I need to say more?

btw: NVidia just announced DLSS 5 for end of 2026

just did a 4x time compression flight and when I went back x1 and opened the weather/time menu, it did not jump back to where I was when I enabled time compression
it was still at the time I should be, but I see no mention of that being fixed in any notes for the beta.

Maybe it was a fluke idk I'll have to do more testing
 

Edited March 17Mar 17 by Tuskin38

Ive been experiencing frequent pauses on the last couple of Fenix flights. They are not micro-stutters but very obvious long frames.

Rolling cache deleted and all other caches.  Not sure whats triggering it at the moment.

Comment on the S5 beta release notes.... Yawn.
 

2 hours ago, cj-ibbotson said:

Ive been experiencing frequent pauses on the last couple of Fenix flights. They are not micro-stutters but very obvious long frames.

 On SU4, had the same issue through the day where yesterday and the day before MS2024 ran just smooth.
We are not there yet with streaming and you must be online always to being able to play stuff. When there is a hick-up along the internet route, gameplay experience just goes down the drain. Shame.
  

Mine's still at 1.6.34.0 and I'm sure I am in the Beta? At least that's what xBox Insider says...

Have rebooted a couple times, still no go... MSFS 2024 doesn't update form me here 😞

EDIT: Ok, had to logout and login again from XBox and XBox Insider App, and now it is downloading 🙂

Edited March 17Mar 17 by jcomm

Well, but after all I was unable to run it 😞

Now whenever I start 1.7.11.0 it gives a popup window about some head tracking settings having to be defined, and I can't interact with it, click OK and continue from there 😞

EDIT:

I just asked my good fellow "Copilot" about that and this was what it told me:

It looks like you’ve hit a known MSFS 2024 beta bug where the sim forces a head‑tracking binding prompt and then soft‑locks the UI. The issue has been reported by other beta testers, especially after recent updates, and it often happens even when no head‑tracking device is connected.

Below is a clear breakdown of what’s going on and what you can try right now.

 

🧭 What’s Causing the Lock‑Up?

• The latest MSFS 2024 beta builds introduced new mandatory bindings for head‑tracking (Tobii, OpenTrack, TrackIR, etc.).

• Some users get a “configure headtracking binding” popup on startup.

• The popup captures all input, so you can’t click anything behind it — making the sim appear frozen.

• Reports show it happens even without any head‑tracking hardware connected.

 

✅ Workarounds You Can Try Right Now

1. Unplug or disable any device MSFS might think is a head‑tracker

Even if you don’t use head‑tracking, MSFS may detect:

• Webcams

• Tobii Eye Tracker

• OpenTrack / AITrack virtual devices

• TrackIR drivers

Try:

• Disconnecting webcams temporarily

• Closing OpenTrack/AITrack if installed

• Unplugging Tobii devices

Then restart the sim.

 

2. Reset or remove the head‑tracking control profile

If the popup appears before you can reach the Controls menu, try this:

1. Close MSFS.

2. Go to your MSFS 2024 control profiles folder (location depends on Steam/MS Store).

3. Temporarily rename or move the folder containing device profiles.

4. Restart MSFS — it will rebuild clean default profiles.

This often clears corrupted or incomplete bindings.

 

3. Force MSFS to skip head‑tracking initialization

Some users report success by:

• Disabling Tobii in Windows Game Bar settings

• Disabling Tobii in MSFS (if you can reach the menu)

• Turning off OpenTrack before launching

Tobii integration is known to behave inconsistently in MSFS 2024.

 

4. Try launching into Safe Mode

If MSFS offers Safe Mode after a crash, choose it — this loads without peripheral configs.

 

5. If nothing works: reinstall or delete only the “Input” folder

This avoids a full reinstall and resets only control bindings.

 

🛠️ Why This Is Happening (Beta-Specific)

• The 1.7.11.0 beta introduced new head‑tracking requirements.

• A bug causes the sim to think a binding is missing and blocks the UI.

• Other testers have reported similar “head tracking message on load” issues after updates.

This is almost certainly a beta regression, not something wrong on your system.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by jcomm

13 hours ago, jcomm said:

Ok, had to logout and login again from XBox and XBox Insider App,

had the same yesterday, MSFT Store a XBOX gave me a "no internet connection" error though I did have internet. obviously a server glitch which grounded me, saw some yellow exclamation mark at XBOX server status yesterday. today all good and beta downloaded, happily flying now the A340 into EGNM

Career

• Improved cruise altitude selection for missions.
  
  YAY!!!

I assume the LOD with landing gear won't be fixed?

5 hours ago, simsuper80 said:

I assume the LOD with landing gear won't be fixed?

I wouldn't assume anything.

The distance the main landing gear renders seems to have increased with SU5, but nose gear still disappears before everything else.

Edited March 22Mar 22 by Tuskin38