October 2nd, 2025 Development Update

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

Following last week’s announcement that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Sony PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro consoles this December, applications to join the upcoming public beta test for the PlayStation build remain open! If you’re a PlayStation 5 user and interested in joining this test, you can find enrollment instructions near the bottom of this article. Important note: please only select one region when signing up to join the PlayStation beta test.

Speaking of public betas, the pre-release test of Sim Update 4 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 remains in progress. Earlier this week, we released a new test build to players. You can read the release notes here:

Sim Update 4 Beta (1.6.11.0) Release Notes – September 30, 2025

Thank you to everyone participating in the SU4 beta! Be sure to submit bug reports on our forums if you encounter any issues, and please remember to vote in our forum surveys about your experience with each test build.

As a reminder, our October Developer Livestream is coming up next week on October 8 at 10:30am Pacific Time (1730 UTC). Tune in to our official Twitch channel to watch the panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial discuss the future of Microsoft Flight Simulator and answer questions from the community. As always, we will post the VOD to our YouTube channel after the broadcast ends for those who are unable to watch the livestream in real time.

– MSFS Team

Development Update

Feedback Snapshot

No update this week. Click here to review the Feedback Snapshot from August 14, 2025.

SDK Update

Asobo

No update this week.

Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework

No update this week.

Flight Planner Update

No update this week.

Marketplace

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 32 NEW and 40 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

Released Week of October 2


	New on PC and Xbox

New Releases This Week
32 NEW Products: 16 ON PC, 16 ON 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 Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
40 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 24 ON PC, 16 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
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated 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	Updated on PC	Updated on PC
Updated on PC	Updated on PC	Updated on PC
Updated on PC	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox
	Updated on PC and Xbox

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 76 NEW and 12 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Released Week of September 25

	New on PC and Xbox

New This week:
76 NEW Products: 38 ON PC, 38 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 PC and Xbox
New on PC and Xbox		New on PC and Xbox

Updated This week:
12 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 6 ON PC, 6 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

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 631 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	11	67	78
Mission	4	112	116
Scenery	8	12	20
Livery	0	6	6
Airport	3	34	37
Other	46	26	72
Total	72	257	329

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	2	45	47
Mission	2	0	2
Scenery	4	183	187
Livery	2	19	21
Airport	11	28	39
Other	0	6	6
Total	21	281	302

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

Starting in 1949, Germany was divided into two halves, the NATO-aligned Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the Soviet-aligned German Democratic Republic (East Germany). After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, German re-unification was officially ratified on October 3, 1990. This date is now recognized every year as a national holiday in Germany.

To commemorate German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), our flight will begin at Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, then proceed to Berlin, the former capital of East Germany (and capital of the present unified Germany). En route, we will have touch and go landings at Bielefeld (if it really exists) and Hannover.

Click here for event details!

Community Video

Join FSCaptBurns in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as they take off in a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX from Stewart, British Columbia, bound for Vancouver. What begins as a routine bush flight over Canada’s remote mountain wilderness quickly turns into a fight for survival. Unexpected weather and engine trouble force a crash landing deep in the coastal mountains. With no rescue in sight, the pilot is left with a choice: stay put and hope for rescue while predators lurk nearby, or take his chances hiking through miles of rugged wilderness to escape.!