September 28th, 2023 Development Update

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

We released Sim Update 13, the next major release to Microsoft Flight Simulator, earlier today. This update includes dozens of fixes and improvements to many different facets of the sim. You can read the full release notes here. At the time of this writing, we are aware that some players are experiencing issues downloading and/or installing Sim Update 13. We are following your reports very closely, and our team is currently hard at work to resolve this issue. We will provide an update as soon as we can – please follow the MSFS Support twitter or check out the MSFS forums for the latest information.

Yesterday, we hosted our latest Developer Livestream on Twitch. If you weren’t able to watch it live, you can catch up on the latest MSFS news from our panel of Jorg, Seb, Martial and special guests on YouTube here:

During the stream, the panel addressed some high-priority questions from the community, including implementing a different set of atmospheric coefficients, a topic that has been a popular point of conversation among sim pilots for the past few weeks. We also revealed some new upcoming content, such as World Update XV: Northern Europe and Greenland! Launching alongside this World Update next month will also be a new Local Legend, Sweden’s Saab B 17.

Another highlight of yesterday’s Developer Livestream was the unveiling of the next entry in our Famous Flyers series of aircraft, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MU-2 from developer iniBuilds! Last week’s Development Roadmap indicated that this plane was originally planned to be released today. We don’t have an exact release date to share with you at this time, but we’re excited to get this beautiful light turboprop into your hands as soon as we can.

Finally, we are temporarily delaying today’s new Marketplace releases until the ongoing issues related to installing Sim Update 13 are resolved. We will update this page with the new and updated Marketplace products once they are available. Thank you for your patience.

Update: This week’s Marketplace releases have gone live as of 2:35PM PT on Friday, September 29th. The Marketplace section below has been updated.

– MSFS Team

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Development Roadmap

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Marketplace Update

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There are 39 new and 25 updated products in today’s Marketplace Update, and 1 updated product from Thursday.

Products added to the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace for PC and Xbox from earlier this week.

Released Thursday, September 28
	Updated on PC

New products in the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace for PC and Xbox.

39 NEW PRODUCTS: 20 ON PC, 19 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	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 products in the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace for PC and Xbox

25 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 14 ON PC, 11 ON XBOX
Updated on PC	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 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 Backlog: 609 Total

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

SDK UPDATE

SDK Update (Asobo)

• No Update this week.

SDK Update (Working Title / MSFS Avionics Framework)

• We are currently preparing a Framework SDK update to reflect changes coming in SU_13 – documentation updates are being finalized as well – look for that shortly after SU_13 release.
• Check out https://github.com/microsoft/msfs-avionics-mirrorto access the latest Avionics Framework source code.
• Find the latest documentation about the avionics framework here https://microsoft.github.io/msfs-avionics-mirror/.
• Upcoming framework updates:
  • Unifying Subscription logic for ConsumerSubject and ConsumerValue to implement generic Subscription. (SU_14)
  • Adding new features to the Framework Map module, including adding new DTK property to MapRotationModule and adding additional conversion functions to MapSystemUtils . (SU_14)
  • Adding a new MapSharedCanvasLayer class. This layer allows multiple sublayers to draw to a single canvas layer while managing callbacks and invalidation logic. (SU_14)
  • Fixing a bug with the fuel_usable_total_weight event publisher. (SU_14)
  • Adding reverse_thrust_engaged and throttle_lower_limit values to the EngineData EventBus publisher. (SU_13)
  • Improving Avionics Framework TCAS module to support dynamic max intruder count and update frequencies. (SU_14)

THIRD PARTY UPDATE

• As of 09/22, we have now approved 234 (+00) third parties into the in-sim marketplace and – so far 203 (+0) have released 2,622 products on PC (+18) and 2,340 on Xbox (+24).
• In total, 3,597 products (+36) have already been released in 3^rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 793 products (+8) from 3^rd party developers are in production (353 announced, 440 unannounced). In total, over 4,392 3^rd party products (+36) have either been released or are in development.
• Airports:
  • 2,137 airports (+11) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 1,902 airports (+17) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 1,355 airports (+16) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 119 airports (-3) beyond the released airports have been announced.
    • 116 airports (-5) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
• Aircraft:
  • 672 aircraft (+2) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 285 aircraft (+1) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 217 aircraft (+1) have been released in the in-sim PC marketplace.
    • 202 aircraft (+2) have been released in the in-sim Xbox marketplace.
    • 213 aircraft (+0) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
    • 174 aircraft (+1) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
• Scenery:
  • 1,003 scenery packs (+3) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 946 scenery packs (+8) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 502 scenery packs (+7) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 20 scenery packs (+0) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
    • 37 scenery packs (-5) are not announced but the dev let us know that scenery is in production
• Mission Packs:
  • 216 mission packs (+12) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 188 mission packs (+3) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 126 mission packs (+3) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.
    • 30 mission packs (+11) are not announced, but the dev let us know that they are in production.
• Livery Packs:
  • 329 livery packs (+10) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 250 livery packs (+7) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 243 livery packs (+7) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 1 livery pack (+0) beyond the released scenery has been announced.
    • 78 livery packs (+3) are not announced, but the dev let us know that scenery is in production.
• Ships & Watercraft:
  • 35 ships & watercraft (+0) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 26 ships & watercraft (+0) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 19 ships & watercraft (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 0 ships & watercraft (+0) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
    • 9 ships & watercraft (+0) are not announced, but dev let us know that scenery is in production

Community Fly-In

October 1 is International Coffee Day! According to the International Coffee Organization, this day is “a celebration of the coffee sector’s diversity, quality and passion. It is an opportunity for coffee lovers to share their love of the beverage and support the millions of farmers whose livelihoods depend on the aromatic crop.”

For our Fly-In this week, we will mark the occasion with a flight over two coffee-producing countries in Central America: Guatemala and Honduras! Both nations rank in the global top 10 for annual coffee production!

Event details are available here. All are welcome to participate!