November 27th, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is X (formerly Twitter) user Takeru_Toys! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

Ps5 Set to begin early access on dec 3

We are excited for simmers to finally experience Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on Sony PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro consoles starting next week! Check out the Release Map to see when MSFS 2024 comes out in your area, or click here for a text-friendly list.

We have also answered more community questions in anticipation of the upcoming release. Click here to explore the updated PlayStation FAQ.

Sim Update 4 Beta

In SU4 beta news, we released two more test builds in the past week. You can check out the release notes for each of these two builds at the links below:

We want to once again thank everyone who is participating in the beta and sharing your feedback about each test build with the dev team. As always, we encourage all beta participatints to kindly submit bug reports, share your overall impressions, and vote in our beta surveys on the forums here.

Upcoming Changes to this weekly blog

With the impending release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5, we are taking this opportunity to revamp our weekly blog post starting next week on Thursday, December 4. Based on your feedback on how the blog can serve you better, going forward we will be splitting the current blog into three different posts:

MSFS Weekly Briefing
Marketplace Update
Development Update

A description of each of these three posts follows.

MSFS Weekly Briefing

The MSFS Weekly Briefing will be an at-a-glance view of what YOU the community have been up to in the past week, as well as a high-level recap of what’s been going on in the sim. This is where we will give an overview of any new releases from the past week, such as Sim Updates, World Updates, City Updates, new aircraft (Local Legends, Famous Flyers, Expert Series), pre-release beta test builds, new YouTube trailers, Marketplace sale notifications, special offers from flight sim peripheral makers and add-on creators, and more. If you’re a simmer who regularly reads the forums and already stays on top of the latest MSFS news, you may not find much new information here, but this will be an ideal short read for players who just want a quick recap of the past week’s updates.

The MSFS Weekly Briefing will also include the Community section from the current weekly blog:

Community Fly-In Friday information
Community Video
Creator Highlight
Screenshot Challenge

Additionally, we will use the MSFS Weekly Briefing to highlight interesting and unique group events organized by you, the simmer community. Whether it’s a group flight listed on our forums, a charity fundraising livestream, or a real-life simmer meet-up that’s part of our Bravo Alpha Romeo program, check in here to stay on top of all the latest events happening in the MSFS community.

The MSFS Weekly Briefing will release at the same time as the current blog, approximately 4pm Pacific Time every Thursday. The idea is that this post can be your single source of news to stay up-to-date with all the latest happenings in the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Marketplace Update

The Marketplace Update will be a separate blog post and will include the image grids for New and Updated MSFS 2024 and MSFS (2020) Marketplace products released that week on Monday and Thursday. For now, this will be published every Thursday concurrent with the MSFS Weekly Briefing, but the publication date/time could change in the future. This page will also include the Marketplace Backlog table and the text-only table of Marketplace releases which also shows how long a product was waiting between Last Submission and Creator Sign-Off and Creator Sign-off to Release.

You can find the new Marketplace page at https://flightsimulator.com/marketplace. This page currently holds the text-only tables, but will be refreshed with a new look come Dec. 4th.

Development Update

Development Updates will be focused solely about development information of the sim, not Community or Marketplace news. Publication is not locked in to a certain cadence, but the goal is for a new Development Update to be published either on an ad-hoc basis whenever the team has important new information to share OR for a new Development Update to follow each Developer Livestream (approximately every other month), giving a recap of the topics discussed by the panel for those simmers who were unable to watch the broadcast live on Twitch or prefer to read a text article rather than watch a YouTube VOD of the session.

Development Updates will include the following sections from the current weekly blog:

Development Roadmap
Feedback Snapshot
SDK Update
Third Party Update
Other Development News

We look forward to these changes to the weekly blog and hope you will find this breakout into three separate posts more useful for staying updated with the latest MSFS news. As always, we are listening to your feedback and are excited to hear what you have to say on our forums.

Black Friday Sale

The Marketplace Black Friday Sale remains ongoing! This is a great opportunity to enjoy savings of up to 85% on thousands of items from the in-sim Marketplace. See here for more information!

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.

NOTE: due to the US Thanksgiving holiday, there was no Thursday batch of new/updated releases this week. The tables below show the products released during the Monday release window. We will return to regular Monday/Thursday releases next week.

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 20 NEW and 13 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

First Party


New on PC and Xbox		Updated on PC and Xbox

New Releases This Week
18 NEW Products: 9 ON PC, 9 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

Updated This week:
11 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 6 ON PC, 5 on 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

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 45 NEW and 9 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

New This week:
45 NEW Products: 23 ON PC, 22 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
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
9 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 4 ON PC, 5 ON XBOX
Updated 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: 628 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	7	67	74
Mission	8	104	112
Scenery	6	8	14
Livery	0	4	4
Airport	20	22	42
Other	70	10	80
Total	111	215	326

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	18	25	43
Mission	0	0	0
Scenery	0	190	190
Livery	11	12	23
Airport	10	27	37
Other	2	7	9
Total	41	261	302

Community Fly-In Friday

November 28-29 is the anniversary of American aviator Robert Byrd leading an expedition to achieve the first flight over the South Pole. In total, Byrd’s expedition lasted nearly 19 hours for the round-trip flight.

To commemorate this aviation milestone, our Community Fly-In Friday group flight this week will see us depart from McMurdo Station (NZFX), near the Ross Ice Shelf where Byrd’s expedition originated, and fly as far as we can towards the geographic South Pole within our two hour livestream time. Using aircraft on skis, we will then make a landing on the Antarctic ice.

Important note: NZFX is a bespoke airport. It is available by default in MSFS 2024, but MSFS (2020) pilots are required to install the FREE World Update XIII: Oceania and Antarctica from the in-sim Marketplace to use this airfield.

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

Community Video

Relax and explore paradise in this video by creator FSCaptBurns, who takes the Icon A5 for a flight across the Chagos Archipelago, located deep in the Indian Ocean. We’d certainly love to visit this area of the world for a vacation!