October 9th, 2025 Development Update

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is X user ARROW2929! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below.

Yesterday, we hosted our October Developer Livestream. The panel of Jorg, Seb, Martial (plus a few special guests) answered many questions from the community while also discussing future updates coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. If you missed watching the broadcast live, you can check out the VOD on our official YouTube channel. A few highlights from the video:

The highly-anticipated Red Bull air racing mode is planned for release this December!
Famous Flyer 13 will be the T-38A Talon jet trainer!
- KrazyColin from Blackbird Simulations provided a live demo of a work-in-progress version of this aircraft.
The Boom XB-1 supersonic aircraft will be free to all simmers on all platforms!
- Chris Burnett from Working Title and Marwan Gharib from FlightFX joined the stream to discuss their work on this exciting aircraft.
Jorg also reviewed new versions of the Feedback Snapshot and Development Roadmap, both of which you can review later in this blog post.

In beta news, two builds were released to players this week! The first is a new pre-release test build for MSFS 2024 Sim Update 4. You can read the release notes for build 1.6.13.0 on our forums here. The team has been closely tracking an issue reported by testers affected ground scenery bleedthrough, and a fix will be coming in a future build.

The second beta released this week is for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro players! We’re very excited to hear the feedback from everyone helping test MSFS 2024 on this platform!

For everyone participating in either the SU4 or PS5 betas, please be sure to leave your feedback, vote in the surveys, and submit bug reports if you encounter any issues at the following forum links:

Note: only those people selected to participate in the PS5 beta will have access the PS5 subforum.

– 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

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2020)

There are 63 NEW and 59 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020).

Released Week of October 9


New on PC and Xbox

New Releases This Week
63 NEW Products: 30 ON PC, 33 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 Xbox
New on PC and Xbox	New on Xbox	New on Xbox

Updated This week:
59 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 29 ON PC, 30 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 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	Updated on PC and Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC	Updated on PC
Updated on 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 Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox
Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox	Updated on Xbox
Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC and Xbox	Updated on PC

Marketplace Releases (MSFS 2024)

There are 42 NEW and 42 UPDATED products in this week’s Marketplace Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Released Week of October 9

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 This week:
42 NEW Products: 21 ON PC, 21 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

Updated This week:
10 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 5 ON PC, 5 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

Marketplace Backlog

Current Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Backlog: 615 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	7	66	73
Mission	22	96	118
Scenery	12	6	4
Airport	7	23	30
Other	28	26	54
Total	76	221	297

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

Content Type	In MS Processing	In 3P Testing	Total
	*Testing Status*
Aircraft	43	30	73
Mission	0	0	0
Scenery	2	182	184
Livery	0	19	19
Airport	10	26	36
Other	2	4	6
Total	57	261	318

Third Party Update

No Update this week.

Community

Community Fly-In Friday

Every year during the first week of October, Albuquerque, New Mexico hosts the world’s largest festival of hot air balloons. For Fly-In Friday this week, we’ll be celebrating the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta with a virtual re-creation of the event in Microsoft Flight Simulator!

We will be starting at KABQ. Please have your balloon ready for takeoff approximately 10 minutes prior to the event start time.

Click here for event details!

Community Video

“Low, fast, and loud through the mountains” is the self-described title for this epic Tornado GR.1 flight conducted by FlightSim Experience. This video definitely gets us in the mood to buzz the tower!