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Coming soon: Game of the Year Edition

It has been an amazing journey since Microsoft Flight Simulator launched on PC. The core flight simmer audience embraced the new experience immediately and with Xbox Game Pass for PC, a new audience of PC gamers was attracted who had previously never played a flight simulator before. Today, Asobo and

Previews

FlightFX and VolcTech announce Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet for MSFS

The FlightFX/Volctech team are hard at work bringing this unique aircraft to the MSFS 2020 sim community. No official timeline has been set for release. However, additional details and features sets are expected to be announced soon. Coming on the heels of their successful KPWK release, the team is

Releases

FSimStudios launching London International Airport (CYXU)

Developer FSimStudios has released London International Airport CYXU for Microsoft Flight Simulator. London International Airport (IATA: YXU, ICAO: CYXU) is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast of the city of London, Ontario, Canada. In 2018, the airport handled 514,685 passengers, and, in 2011, was

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iniSimulations A310-300 is coming to MSFS

Back in July, iniSimulations released their A310-300 for X-Plane 11. Yesterday, Ubaid at iniSimulations announced that their famous A310-300 will be available in Microsoft Flight Simulator as well. The team also shared a few previews of their current progress. We have been in awe with the simulator, and are super

Previews

PMDG shares previews of their upcoming B737

One of the most anticipated add-ons to date for Microsoft Flight Simulator is PMDG’s 737 NG3. Today, Rober Randazzo shared further insights and previews of the upcoming aircraft add-on on the PMDG Forums. First things first: There is no fixed release date yet and no price expectation either. But

General

Project Mega Pack announces its end

With an extensive community filled with creators, Project Mega Pack aimed to distribute community created addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator with ease. The Project was founded back in August 2020 by Clink123, and became very famous for its popular Liveries Mega Pack. Project Mega Pack offered a simple and easy

Releases

FlyByWire A32NX launches their largest release to date - v0.7.0

FlyByWire Simulations today announced the launch of v0.7.0 of their popular A32NX aircraft add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator, being the largest release to date and featuring entirely custom systems developed and tested meticulously with their pilot staff and QA team. Entirely custom fly-by-wire, autopilot and autothrust systems, written

General

FlyByWire A32NX stops distribution on MSFS marketplace

FlyByWire A32NX is a very popular third-party add-on for Asobo's default Airbus A320neo aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator. While it is hosted on GitHub and distribution primarily took place on their own website and GitHub channel mentioned above, it was also available on the Microsoft Flight Simulator in-game marketplace, listed

Creators

Removing Sim Update 5 incompatible mods

On July 28th, Microsoft Flight Simulator's Sim Update 5 was released. Some of the introduced changes also affected the way liveries or several add-ons work in-game. As a result, some liveries are currently no longer compatible with the latest version of the game, i.e. have malfunctions or misrepresentations. For

Creators

Removing Cabin Sounds and its category

Flightsim.to is a place where people share their mods, creations and add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator with the whole world. We are proud to be able to offer such a place and are now looking forward to almost 20,000 thousand add-ons. While Flightsim.to started out small, the

Updates and Patches

Microsoft Flight Simulator hotfix for Sim Update 5 announced

Just a few days ago, the long-awaited Sim Update 5 was released. Make sure to check out our news post over here. Additionally, Microsoft will release a hotfix for PC and Xbox tomorrow at 8 am PT (1500 UTC). For many users, the update brought the hoped-for and promised performance

Updates and Patches

Sim Update 5 for Flight Simulator: The Performance Patch

Microsoft and Asobo have released the performance patch for Flight Simulator that was already teased at the end of June. Sim Update 5 brings the game client to version 1.18.13.0 and is said to bring improved multi-core support, better use of memory and GPU, faster load times

Announcements

About recent changes, payware and Premium

It's been some time since we last checked in with some news about the state of the union - or rather, the state of the website. Over the last few weeks we have made some changes to Flightsim.to and in the coming weeks there will be more changes that

Releases

PMDG DC-6 released - Your chance to win a copy!

PMDG recently released their first high quality, in-depth simulation aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator - a Douglas DC-6, a piston-powered airliner that was first introduced in 1947. You can buy it on their own store for $59.99, while it is currently on sale for $54.99. Apparently, the aircraft

Announcements

Bushtalk Radio implements Flightsim.to Scenery Map data

Bushtalk Radio is a community-driven project with the aim to fill the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator with thousands of additional landmarks and points of interest - POIs. Each highlighted landmark is given a unique audio tour that is automatically played on arrival. Currently, there are over thousands of points

General

Captain Sim trying to sue creators for publishing liveries

Over the months, Flightsim.to has become a well-known and trusted, #1 go-to source for Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons and mods of any kind. Today, we are hosting more than 10 thousand brilliant add-ons and liveries, which elevate the in-game experience of Microsoft Flight Simulator to an entirely new level.

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Navigraph acquires SimBrief

Navigraph, the flight simulation community's trusted source for updated charts and navigational data, today announced that it has acquired SimBrief, the flight simulation community's most popular flight planning software. The acquisition is a natural progression of the already close collaboration between Navigraph and SimBrief. It builds on the integration between

Reviews

Our First Impressions on Aerosoft CRJ 550/700 for Microsoft Flight Simulator

For a long time we have been waiting for this aircraft. The Aerosoft CRJ 550 / 700 series for Microsoft Flight Simulator was finally released on March 16, 2021. Originally, a release, although not officially announced, was planned sometime at the end of the last year. However, Aerosoft decided to postpone

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Trending in February 2021 - Top #5 Picks of Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-Ons

There are plenty of add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Here is a quick look at some of the mods that were particularly popular with you last month, February 2021. If you don't have them yet, it might be worth taking a look! 1. Pushback Helper - 48K DownloadsPushback Helper was

Releases

Project Mega Pack launches Airbus A330-300 for MSFS

For a long time, people were looking forward to this. Today, 3:30 PM Eastern Time, time has come. Project Mega Pack has just released their Airbus A330-300 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, after 4 months of work. The aircraft is also listed here on Flightsim.to, but until Wednesday at

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FlightControlReplay 4.5 launched - Replay your flights

If there's one thing that Flight Simulator fans can't wait to have, it's the ability to rewatch their flights. The Replay functionality is at the top of Asobo's weekly published Top Wishes list by the community, and is currently ranked #2. According to Asobo, their replay functionality for the sim

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Volanta is now available for public use - ORBX's Flight Tracker

Volanta is an easy-to-use smart flight tracker that integrates all your flight data across all major sims. It's clean, easy-to-use interface is to make the big difference. ORBX has been lately working on a personal flight tracking app for Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, Prepar3D and FSX - it's called Volanta.

Previews

Airbus A380X by FlyByWire - Previewed

Developer FlyByWire is already well known for its very popular aircraft mod A32NX - an open-source A320neo realism enhancement. However, some time ago FlyByWire also announced that they are working on an A380 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, as you can read here. The plane is expected to be open-source and

Reviews

The Skypark for Microsoft Flight Simulator – in-depth review of a novel approach

Note: As The Skypark is currently in Early Access, it is worth mentioning that parts of this review might be temporary. As such, this article will be revisited at a later point to account for changes and additions that have been made by Parallel 42. You can read an earlier

Reviews

Orbx’ Patch to London City - EGLC London City Airport Reviewed

Are the Orbx products our solution to London City’s lack of details?When we first heard of MSFS and saw the visual quality of the simulator and its advertised 2 petabytes of world data, a lot of people thought this will end the scenery developers. But, the sim has