We’ve got some updates coming in from Microsoft Flight Simulator third party developer Fenix Simulations. The developer has built up a sizable reputation thanks to the high quality of their A320ceo family of aircraft. They aren’t perfect and recent complaints about a few features on the current releases has not gone unheard. There are some updates about their forthcoming A320neo as well so let’s look at it all!

Fixing problems first

Fenix are working on a couple of big projects right now. While the A320neo is highly anticipated by many and the company has most of their developers working on the project, fans of the current A320ceo family products are hoping to see fixes. And fixes are coming!

Three items are dominating their efforts to improve the A320ceo series. VNAV, state saving, and lingering bugs with the ECAM system (this is the system that displays alerts and reports on aircraft systems). So what is Fenix doing about it? Rebuilding their VNAV system to better match the real world Airbus system, rebuilding their ECAM logic, and building an all new state saving system that goes beyond just saving switch positions in the cockpit. Sounds good.

Fenix are saying that they’ve pulled some resources from the A320neo project to get these fixes in place. That, they say, accomplished two things: ensuring that products that people have already paid for are working the way they should and turning these updates and rolling them into the A320neo so that its a better product when it arrives.

NEO update

We’ve talked about the A320neo a fair bit here but mostly in the context of resources being pulled to solve bugs with the A320ceo series. Unsurprisingly, the A320neo is not coming before the end of 2025. Work is progressing well, however, and testing is underway.

The NEOs are in a place where they will be ready to drop into wider testing once we release new VNAV and the new ECAM infrastructure to you all, so don’t panic too hard – we’ve also got some experimental features in dev for that package which we’re quite excited to show and talk to you about.

That all sounds good and exciting for the folks waiting for Fenix’s take on the A320neo.

Read the full dev diary here!