For the beta testers of MSFS2024, there is a new beta to test out. Sim Update 2 – Beta – v1.4.10.0. Reading the internet, there is still some items that must be fixed. But therefor you are a beta tester.

You can read about it here.

FAQs

Will joining the Sim Update 2 Beta (and future Sim Update Betas) impact my progress in Career mode on the live build?

• No, Career mode progress is locked to the live build. No Career progress made in the flighting build will carry over to the live build. However, all Career mode specializations are unlocked by default in the flighting build.

Will my leaderboard records in Challenge League transfer when the flighting build becomes the live build?

• No, Challenge League leaderboards in the flighting build will always be separate from the live build.

Will progress in other game modes (Discovery, Free Flight, etc.) be separate in the flighting build and live build?

• No, only progress in Career and Challenge League are affected. This could change in the future.

Will content I own or purchase in the Marketplace be available on both the flighting build and the live build?

• Yes, all content owned or purchased in the live build or the flighting build will always be available in both builds.

If playing on a flighting build, can I invite my friends on the live build to Multiplayer?

• No. Multiplayer is now limited to friends in the same environment. To invite to Multiplayer, all participants must be in the same build environment

Stability & Performance

• Fixed crashes inside GPU drivers due to off-by-one error inside our texture loading code.

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with legacy in-game UI data issues, rendering them invisible when they should be visible and using the wrong data
• Fixed an issue where the notification of group invitations and friend invitations were excluded from the gameplay state
• Fixed login popup sometimes not appearing for new users.

Aircraft

Airbus Helicopters H125

• Improved visual on Dust Dirt

Boeing 737 MAX 8

• Adjusted step climb logic on the CDU VNAV cruise page to more closely match real-world behavior.
• Updated the background and text colors of the Comm radios, Nav radios, ADF radios, and MCP windows to match real-world look and feel
• Fixed issue to verify the active Nav frequencies in the radios when the aircraft loads are set to the correct NavMode (ILS or VOR)

Cessna 172 Skyhawk (G1000)

• Adjusted TUTO lines position and default cockpit camera

CubCrafters X-Cub

• Fixed engine stopping at high altitude airports. Fixed the max RPM reached at full throttle for takeoff.

Glass Cockpits

G1000 NXI

• Screen backlight settings now default to AUTO at the start of a flight.

Garmin G3000 / G5000

• Improved performance when making large edits to the flight plan.

Garmin G3X Touch

• Improved performance when making large edits to the internal flight plan when multiple GDUs are present in an airplane.

Primus Epic 2.0 Integrated Avionics System

• Fixed the PFD decluttering at 20deg pitch up and 30deg pitch down – now reversed this to declutter at 30deg pitch up and 20deg pitch down.

Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System

• Improved performance when making large edits to the flight plan.

EFB

• Moved flight plan management buttons to the header and grouped them by action. Added tooltips for every icon-button.
• Adjusted the styling of the Flight Details page so that it is more consistent with other pages.
• Facility Search Bar result items (facility icon, icao and facility name) are aligned horizontally.
• Closing Facility Info Pages will clear the Facility Search Bar.
• Added a bounds verification to georeferenced charts to fix the issue where the aircraft icon was displayed in the wrong position.
• Allowed the fuel reorganization from the hangar in career mode* Payload and Fuel options are combined and displayed in one page.
• Added a possibility to collapse a section when clicking on a section title in the Route page.
• Added button to navigate to the Mass and balance section of the Aircraft app.
• Added support for loading fuel and payload into the active aircraft.
• Payload and Fuel sections now have a total fuel and a total payload quick input setter.

Aircraft Gameplay

ATC

• Improved pronunciation of many phrases.
• Pilot will now include the airport ident and “Traffic” at the end of all appropriate CTAF communications.

Career

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed could not launch aircraft missions after a rotorcraft freeflight or world photographer

Missions

• Fixed background reward screen for reward in legacy landing challenges

World

• Fixed wrong texture directories being cached when generating scenery index

Airport

• Fixed discontinuity when a terraforming polygon is split.
• Fixed custom runway start not being used in Free Flight.
• Fixed incorrect runway used for spawn when the assistance option ‘ATC enforce flight plan’ is disabled and another runway was selected as departure.
• Fixed terraforming discontinuity at the end of runways

Marketplace

• Fixed an issue where the Price slider would snap back to its max value

Accessibility

• Fixed transcribe option handling both matching and non-matching languages when using remote speech-to-text
• Added Speech synthesis for STT translation in Translate Text chat option

Virtual Reality

• Added “COCKPIT INTERACTION – GROUP TOGGLE” action to switch between interacting with one or all throttles. Action is binded by default to ALT+G on keyboards and A/Trackpad Down on VR right controllers.
• Fixed interaction in VR for the collective of helicopters be implementing a similar logic to the yoke’s.
• Currently only applied to the H125 and Cabri but can be applied by 3rd parties on their helicopters by defining the parameters in the CFG and disabling the collective’s ModelBehavior interaction in VR.
• Fixed the EFB panel scroll/zoom input behaviours in VR

DevMode

Project Editor

• Fixed incorrect priority for “INVALID” package order hint
• New automatic order hint detection & reworked UX of order selection

SimObject Editor

• Fixed GLTF node detection in SimObject editor career compatibility tab

SDK

WASM API

• Fixed crash when closing the game during a flight with an aircraft that do calls to the CommBus API in the kill callback

EFB API

• Added a min & max props for the UnitBox component.

Tools

• Prevented a crash from happening when selecting an air traffic aircraft in the aircraft selector