July 10th, 2025 Development Update

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

Public pre-release testing of both Sim Update 3 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and Sim Update 16 for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) continues, with both sims receiving a new beta build this week. In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for these new beta builds here:

Also new this week, we’re pleased to announce that several aircraft from the Deluxe and Premium Deluxe Editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are now available to rent from the in-sim Marketplace. Renting gives simmers the opportunity to try these planes for a small fee. When you rent an item, you’ll also receive an offer to purchase it at a discounted price.

This offer is valid during your rental period and for seven (7) days after your rental expires. The purchase price is calculated by subtracting the highest single rental price you paid from the current full purchase price of the item in the Marketplace. For example: If the item costs $10 and you rented it twice, once for three days at $3 and once for one day at $1, the discounted purchase price would be $10 (item price) – $3 (highest rental paid) = $7.

You can find more information about which Deluxe and Premium Deluxe Edition aircraft are available for rent in the image below:

Finally, we are now accepting questions for our next Developer Livestream scheduled for July 23, 2025. If you’d like to pre-submit a question to the panel, you can do so at this link.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

Click here to see the Feedback Snapshot from June 4.

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update this week.

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 72 NEW and 43 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

New Releases This Week
72 NEW Products: 38 ON PC, 34 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New on PC
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC

Updated This week:
43 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 24 ON PC, 19 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 56 NEW and 10 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
56 NEW Products: 28 ON PC, 28 ON XBOX
Developer: mscenery New on PC and Xbox	Developer: mscenery New on PC and Xbox	Developer: mscenery New on PC and Xbox
Developer: mscenery New on PC and Xbox	Developer: BlackBox Simulation New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Sim Federation New on PC and Xbox
Developer: Sim Federation New on PC and Xbox	Developer: REDWING New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Taog’s Hangar New on PC and Xbox
Developer: Just Flight New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Captain Sim New on PC and Xbox	Developer: JED Studio New on PC and Xbox
Developer: Perfect Flight New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Perfect Flight New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Perfect Flight New on PC and Xbox
Developer: REDWING New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Bijan New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Dreamscenery New on PC and Xbox
Developer: Dreamscenery New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Dreamscenery New on PC and Xbox	Developer: Dreamscenery New on PC and Xbox
Developer: Burning Blue Design New on PC and Xbox	Developer: 29Palms New on PC and Xbox	Developer: REDWING New on PC and Xbox
Developer: REDWING New on PC and Xbox	Developer: iniBuilds New on PC and Xbox	Developer: iniBuilds New on PC and Xbox
	Developer: Realworld Scenery New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
10 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 5 ON PC, 5 ON XBOX
Developer: SimSolutions Updated on PC	Developer: BRAVOAIRSPACE / ELYSIUM Updated on PC and Xbox	Developer: Akaflieg Freiburg e.V. Updated on PC and Xbox
Developer: Burning Blue Design Updated on PC and Xbox		Developer: Blackbird Simulations Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 356 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	80	0	2	82
Mission	8	0	50	58
Scenery	14	0	3	17
Livery	0	0	4	4
Airport	14	0	24	38
Other	22	0	12	34
Total	138	0	95	233

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	21	0	16	37
Mission	2	0	0	2
Scenery	6	0	5	11
Livery	26	0	6	32
Airport	16	0	17	33
Other	7	0	1	8
Total	78	0	45	123

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

We’re off to the South Pacific this week for backcountry bush flying in Papua New Guinea! Hop into your favorite bush plane and prepare for some breathtaking views and challenging landings as we fly over the rainforests of this island nation!

We’ll start at the capital city of Port Moresby and then head on a generally northwesterly heading until we arrive at our full stop destination of Goroka. En route, we’ll attempt multiple touch & go landings at remote grass/dirt airstrips!

Click here for event details!

Community Video

We’re highlighting a new creator for this week’s choice of community created video, as we join Planet Arcadia on an immersive long haul flight from the Italian capitol city of Rome to Buenos Aires, Argentina!