Reintroduced in 2020, Microsoft Flight Simulator has been a significant release to the flight simulation world causing a flurry of new activity and content to be developed for the simulation. Its successor, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, launched in the fall of 2024 and is just starting to get underway. This page seeks to capture the big picture of content that is coming to the sim with a focus on Microsoft and partner products together with a collection of third party developers too. Of course, keeping track of all that is going on in the community is a near impossible task so consider this an overview.

Microsoft Flight Simulator content charts

Periodically, Developer Q&A presentations by the MSFS team update us on some of the content that they have planned for launch into the sim. These are typically grouped into a few different series including Local Legends, Famous Flyers, City Updates, World Updates, Sim Updates and Surprises as well as the still nascent Expert Series. Here’s what we’re currently expecting in the coming year:

World Updates

  • World Update 19: Brazil, Guiana, French Guiana and Suriname
  • City Update 10: USA 1
  • City Update 11: World Update 20:
  • World Update 20: Japan
  • City Update: TBD

New aircraft

Local Legends

  • Local Legend 20: CAP-4 Paulistinha (by iniBuilds)
  • Local Legend 21: Eurocopter EC135 (by Nemeth)
  • Local Legend 22: YS-11 (iniBuilds)
  • Local Legend 23:

Famous Flyers

  • Famous Flyer 11: Cessna 185F (by Carenado)
  • Famous Flyer 12: PA28 Dakota (by Carenado)
  • Famous Flyer 13: Northrup T-38 (Miltech and Blackbird)
  • Famous Flyer 14: XB-1 Boom Supersonic (WorkingTitle)

Sim updates

  • Sim Update 01
  • Sim Update 02
  • Surprise
  • Sim Update 03
  • Sim Update 04
  • Surprise

There are currently four significant Sim Update patches planned for MSFS 2024 in 2025. There are also two surprises planned.