On last wednesday, there was the October Developer Livestream. The panel of Jorg, Seb, Martial (plus a few special guests) answered many questions from the community while also discussing future updates coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. If you missed watching the broadcast live, you can watch it here back. (Grab some coffee)
In short:
- The highly-anticipated Red Bull air racing mode is planned for release this December!
- Famous Flyer 13 will be the T-38A Talon jet trainer!
- KrazyColin from Blackbird Simulations provided a live demo of a work-in-progress version of this aircraft.
- The Boom XB-1 supersonic aircraft will be free to all simmers on all platforms!
- Chris Burnett from Working Title and Marwan Gharib from FlightFX joined the stream to discuss their work on this exciting aircraft.
- Jorg also reviewed new versions of the Feedback Snapshot and Development Roadmap, both of which you can review later in this blog post.
And reserve some time for this evening:
Every year during the first week of October, Albuquerque, New Mexico hosts the world’s largest festival of hot air balloons. For the Fly-In Friday, today, they will be celebrating the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta with a virtual re-creation of the event in Microsoft Flight Simulator!
The is at KABQ. Please have your balloon ready for takeoff approximately 10 minutes prior to the event start time.
- And you can read some news about the Playstation 5 plans beta version here.
