Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 7.2 Fixes Helicopter Lift and PS5 Issues

Sim Update 7.2 is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as version 1.9.24.0, with fixes for aircraft behavior, engine starts, and developer tools. The release notes also flag a Community Folder troubleshooting step for PC players. Before this release, the SU7.1 beta build had added Time Trials to National Championship Air Racing and fixed an aircraft-drag issue.

For add-on aircraft, the update reverts drag simulation calculations to the pre-SU7 version to maintain compatibility with certain third-party aircraft. It also fixes helicopters gaining excessive RPM and unexpected lift when Turbulence is set to Realistic, along with cold-weather starting problems for aircraft using Bleed Air Starters.

The original Sim Update 7 release brought the National Championship Air Races and live marine traffic on Oct. 13. Version 7.2 is a narrower follow-up focused on compatibility and bug fixes.

On PC, outdated packages in the Community Folder may affect performance or behavior. If stability issues or long loading times occur, move the packages to another folder before relaunching the simulator.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 7.2 Patch Notes

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed loading of BMP files used by XML gauges on PS5
• Reverted a change to drag simulation calculations to the pre-SU7 version to ensure backwards compatibility with certain third-party add-on aircraft.
• [Aerodynamics] Fixed an issue where helicopters can experience excessive RPM and unexpected lift when the Turbulence setting in Assistances was set to Realistic.
• [UI] Fixed an issue where the values in the in-flight Camera menu were not being correctly read / set.

Aircraft

• Fixed an issue that caused aircraft using Bleed Air Starters (B737, F18, …) to sometimes be unable to start their engines when the air temperature has been setup to be quite low.

DevMode

• Fixed exterior profiling randomly using wrong camera angles in SimObject Profiler.

SDK

• [SDK] Fixed a crash that occurs when “custom simconnect events with numerical id” are used with F:KeyEvent.

WASM API

• Fixed WASM function fsNetworkHttpRequestGetState returning an 8-bit enum value as 32-bit without clearing the upper 24-bits on PS5

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