June 5th, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user Douviant96! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

As announced in last week’s Development Update blog, work on Sim Update 16 for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) continues. On Tuesday, we released a new pre-release test build (1.39.2.0) to those enrolled in the public beta. If you missed it earlier, you can read the release notes here.

There was not a new Sim Update 3 beta build for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 released this week, but development work continues on that version, too. Thank you to everyone who has been participating in either beta test and providing your impressions and bug repots on our forums. As always, if you are part of either public beta test, please vote in the forum surveys (links below). Your feedback really matters and helps the dev team immensely!

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update this week.

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

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

There are 31 NEW and 32 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

New Releases This Week
31 NEW Products: 15 ON PC, 16 ON XBOX
New 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 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

Updated This week:
32 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 14 ON PC, 18 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated 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 and Xbox	Updated on Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 121 NEW and 8 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
121 NEW Products: 59 ON PC, 62 ON XBOX
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New 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 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 and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on PC and Xbox	New 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 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

Updated This week:
8 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 4 ON PC, 4 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 452 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	49	0	1	50
Mission	8	0	50	58
Scenery	12	0	1	13
Livery	4	0	4	8
Airport	31	0	15	46
Other	54	0	15	69
Total	158	0	86	244

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In MS Testing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	35	0	26	61
Mission	4	0	34	38
Scenery	16	0	9	25
Livery	19	0	4	23
Airport	46	0	8	54
Other	3	0	4	7
Total	123	0	85	208

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

This week we’re trying something a little different: there’s no flight plan, and we’re not flying from A to B. Instead, we’ll be having a group meeting in the New York City area, with the catch being that everyone will be flying an unconventional aircraft type (i.e. not a powered fixed wing airplane or helicopter). Instead, we’ll all be flying non-traditional aircraft like hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, eVTOLs, or powered parachutes!

We will be starting at your choice of KJFK, KEWR, or KLGA then meeting up over Central Park in Manhattan. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

Click here for event details!

Rise of a Pilot – Career Mode Livestream

As of April 8, 2025, the Rise of a Pilot series is on temporary hiatus. Stay tuned for more information from the Community Team about upcoming changes to our livestream schedule!

Community Video

With Sim Update 3 Beta now available for all Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 players to test, we join Cow Town for this week’s Community Video as they explore the improvements to the weather engine.

Exploring live thunderstorms in the Cessna Grand Caravan, this trip is not for the faint of heart!