Every Friday, 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC) This is an open event, free to all who would like to fly along with us and available to pilots of all skill levels. The goal is to have a great time, explore new locations of the world, and make new friends.
We have worked hard with our partners, including Asobo and others, to bring you an amazing sim experience. The excitement for the sim today has been overwhelming, but we encountered an issue with one of our services handling the new systems in the game like career mode and various missions. The server responsible for handling … Continued
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has launched! We are incredibly proud of what we were able to accomplish with this new release and this is without any doubt our most ambitious simulator ever. During the final days of development of this huge project, we discovered a few issues too late to address for the launch:Xbox Series X|S … Continued
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is by far our most ambitious simulator to date, and we are incredibly excited for all of you – from our core sim fans to all gamers and those who want to explore the world with us – to join us on this journey. With authentic realism of all environments, aviation … Continued
Together with some of our fantastic partners we have put together an extra special sweepstakes opportunity. We’re working with Next Level Racing, Elgato, Thrustmaster and Tobii to bring you a launch package that contains almost everything a simmer needs to set up their own home cockpit and jump into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.Continue reading for … Continued
This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user KnackBretzel! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!There’s only five more days until the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024! The launch will be a single global release for all time zones simultaneously at 8:00am … Continued
Thank you for pre-ordering the Limited Collector’s Edition (LCE) of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS 2024). This special edition is a love letter to you, our flight simulation fans, and we are heartbroken that our shipping solution for regions outside of the United States have suffered an unexpected delay. To be clear, there is no … Continued
This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user KnackBretzel! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!There’s only five more days until the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024! The launch will be a single global release for all time zones simultaneously at 8:00am … Continued
In today’s Peripheral Spotlight, we’re pleased to highlight the Yawman Arrow! The brainchild of Yawman’s co-founder Thomas Nield, the Arrow is designed for simmers on the go who want a complete flight control peripheral device that doesn’t make any sacrifices to sim features and input precision but is small enough to fit into a laptop bag.Nield initially … Continued
In today’s Peripheral Spotlight, we’re thrilled to showcase Next Level Racing! As their company name might suggest, Next Level Racing got their start making racing seats and cockpits for home auto racing simmers. Following the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020, NLR expanded their business by offering a new line of products for flight … Continued
This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Twitter/X user ukaka5656! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!Yesterday we hosted another of our planned weekly Developer Livestreams leading up to the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on November 19. Joining Jorg this week were Mike … Continued
For today’s Microsoft Flight Simulator Peripheral Spotlight, we’re focusing on one of flight simulations leading hardware providers for both PC and Xbox: Thrustmaster!Established in 1990, Thrustmaster has become one of the leading names in the world of flight simulation peripherals by consistently producing a range of high-quality joysticks and other controls across civilian, military, and … Continued
Today we’re pleased to highlight Elgato as our Peripheral Highlight of the Day! We had the pleasure of meeting several members of the Elgato team during last June’s FlightSimExpo event in Las Vegas where we demoed how Elgato Stream Deck can be used in conjunction with Microsoft Flight Simulator.Elgato Stream Deck has long been considered … Continued
We have worked hard with our partners, including Asobo and others, to bring you an amazing sim experience. The excitement for the sim today has been overwhelming, but we encountered an issue with one of our services handling the new systems in the game like career mode and various missions. The server responsible for handling … Continued
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has launched! We are incredibly proud of what we were able to accomplish with this new release and this is without any doubt our most ambitious simulator ever. During the final days of development of this huge project, we discovered a few issues too late to address for the launch:Xbox Series X|S … Continued
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is by far our most ambitious simulator to date, and we are incredibly excited for all of you – from our core sim fans to all gamers and those who want to explore the world with us – to join us on this journey. With authentic realism of all environments, aviation … Continued
Together with some of our fantastic partners we have put together an extra special sweepstakes opportunity. We’re working with Next Level Racing, Elgato, Thrustmaster and Tobii to bring you a launch package that contains almost everything a simmer needs to set up their own home cockpit and jump into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.Continue reading for … Continued
This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user KnackBretzel! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!There’s only five more days until the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024! The launch will be a single global release for all time zones simultaneously at 8:00am … Continued
Thank you for pre-ordering the Limited Collector’s Edition (LCE) of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS 2024). This special edition is a love letter to you, our flight simulation fans, and we are heartbroken that our shipping solution for regions outside of the United States have suffered an unexpected delay. To be clear, there is no … Continued
Thank you for pre-ordering the Limited Collector’s Edition (LCE) of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS 2024). This special edition is a love letter to you, our flight simulation fans, and we are heartbroken that our shipping solution for regions outside of the United States have suffered an unexpected delay. To be clear, there is no … Continued
In today’s Peripheral Spotlight, we’re pleased to highlight the Yawman Arrow! The brainchild of Yawman’s co-founder Thomas Nield, the Arrow is designed for simmers on the go who want a complete flight control peripheral device that doesn’t make any sacrifices to sim features and input precision but is small enough to fit into a laptop bag.Nield initially … Continued
In today’s Peripheral Spotlight, we’re thrilled to showcase Next Level Racing! As their company name might suggest, Next Level Racing got their start making racing seats and cockpits for home auto racing simmers. Following the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020, NLR expanded their business by offering a new line of products for flight … Continued