The folks at Flight One Software have just announced the iFly 737 MAX is now available on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. They are calling this an experimental release and there are some caveats of using it on the new sim. Let’s have a look.

Fly the MAX on 2024

Reviews from around the community have been very positive towards the iFly MAX. The airliner launched in that awkward several weeks before the 2024 launch and so for some users sticking to 2020 the release has been great while others have anxiously been awaiting this move over.

iFly are calling this an experimental release because they acknowledge that several advanced features are not working correctly.

Here’s what they said about that on the Flight One Discord :

Thanks to all for your patience while we’ve been working on this release of the iFly MAX8 for MSFS 2024. As we’ve publicly stated, changes introduced by Asobo have been difficult for developers to deal with, and we want to say up front there are remaining issues due to the base sim (MSFS 2024) still being work-in-progress by Asobo. That’s why we are categorizing this release as EXPERIMENTAL. You are welcome to install it but be aware the release is “as is”.

There are still multiple, unresolved compatibility issues remaining. Any further progress by us depends on Asobo supplying the complete backwards compatibility they promised. We anxiously await that. We do believe however you can have amazing flights in this MSFS 2024 version.

For example, Airport maps and RAAS are not working due the streaming used by MSFS 2024.  We should have these options at a later date.  Also, addons/mods from third party sources may not work properly.

The update is available from iFly Manager software (with the latest version) and there’s no upgrade price to make use of the airliner in the new sim. Check that out here!