November 20th, 2025 Development Update

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

The PlayStation 5 Beta Test ended earlier this week. THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the PS5 players who participated in the beta and shared your feedback, bug reports, and overall impressions with the dev team. We are positively thrilled by the excitement for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 shown by PS5 fans, and we can’t wait to welcome all of you to the world of flight simming with the full release of MSFS 2024 on Sony PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro in early December!

While the PS5 Beta might be over, public pre-release testing for Sim Update 4 continues. Since our last weekly blog post, we have released two new test builds to those of you enrolled in the beta. You can see the release notes for each of these builds at the links below:

For those of you thinking about trying VR (or for current VR simmers thinking about upgrading your hardware), our friends at Pimax are currently running a promotion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 players. Buy a a Pimax Crystal Light or Crystal Super QLED VR headset at this link and use code MSFSVR at checkout to receive 80 Simverse Coins as a gift with purchase. You can then use these Simverse Coins to purchase items from the MSFS 2024 in-sim Marketplace. This is a great opportunity to enhance your flight simming immersion and treat yourself to a new Marketplace item at the same time!

Finally, this week marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The team has remained hard at work over the past year, delivering three Sim Updates (and a fourth SU coming soon), two World Updates, two City Updates, and several new aircraft. Development is not stopping anytime soon, though! We look forward to continually improving the sim as we enter Year Two of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. We’ll see you in the skies!

Note: there will not be a weekly Development Update blog next Thursday (November 27) due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Development Roadmap

Feedback Snapshot

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update this week.

Flight Planner Update

No update this week.

Marketplace

You can now see how many days it has taken for each third-party product (New and Updated) to be released on the Marketplace after the Creator signed-off that it was ready to go. You can see this information in the dedicated Marketplace release page at this link.

IMPORTANT NOTE (2025-11-20): Due to an unforeseen technical issue, Thursday’s batch of releases for the Marketplace are not yet available as of the time this blog post was published. The MP releases shown below only reflect the items released on Monday, November 17. We will update this post once the batch of products slated for release today are live in the Marketplace. We apologize for the delay and are working to make these products available as quickly as possible.

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 12 NEW and 4 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

New Releases This Week
12 NEW Products: 6 ON PC, 6 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

Updated This week:
4 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 2 ON PC, 2 on XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 14 NEW and 2 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
14 NEW Products: 7 ON PC, 7 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

Updated This week:
2 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 1 ON PC, 1 ON XBOX
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 563 Total

Note: the Marketplace backlog table below is accurate as of last week (2025-11-13). We will update this table with the latest data after all the releases for this week are available.

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	11	66	77
Mission	4	104	108
Scenery	6	10	16
Livery	2	4	6
Airport	3	23	26
Other	19	29	48
Total	45	236	281

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	2	29	31
Mission	0	0	0
Scenery	2	187	189
Livery	1	16	17
Airport	6	30	36
Other	2	7	9
Total	13	269	282

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

November 22 is Lebanon’s Independence Day! To mark the occasion, our group flight this week will see us visit this country on the the Mediterranean Sea, departing from the capital city of Beirut and making our way northbound up the coast. We will eventually cross the border into Türkiye for a full-stop landing at Adana.

Click here for event details! All are welcome to join!

Community Video

Experience what it would look like to land an Airbus A320 from the Captain’s POV in this new video by RoFlyby, operating to Corfu in Greece. Mixing simulator footage with real-world audio, this immersive video is a great watch!