Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 7 Is Live With Air Races and Marine Traffic

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 7 is now available as version 1.9.18.0. The update brings the National Championship Air Races to the Activities menu, adds live marine traffic to Career and Discovery modes, and fixes issues across aircraft, career features, airports, and avionics. The Sim Update 7 release notes also include a new Ground Services app for the EFB. The first Sim Update 7 beta build, version 1.9.10.0, reached enrolled players on September 11, ahead of the races’ scheduled October 13 arrival.

The National Championship Air Races had been scheduled for October 13, alongside Sim Update 7, and are now available in the game. The activity’s earlier schedule was covered in the October 13 announcement.

PC players should also check their Community Folder if they run into instability or long loading times. Older packages in that folder can affect performance or behavior, and the recommended step is to move them elsewhere before relaunching the simulator.

Beyond the headline additions, the update adjusts race activity features, adds Lufthansa liveries for the Airbus A310-300, A320neo, A321, and A330-300, and includes a broad set of aircraft and navigation changes. The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III receives a custom electronic flight control system and expanded autopilot functions. A revised 10% margin above Vne also changes when excessive speed can trigger a crash.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Version 1.9.18.0 Patch Notes

New content and features

• National Championship Air Races is now available from the Activities menu.
• Added virtual keyboard for sliders on console when pressing validate on a line with a slider associated with a text input.
• Added new Ground Services EFB app.
• Added Live Marine Traffic in Career and Discovery mode.

Stability and performance

• Fixed a potential crash for aircraft with more than 10 flap states.
• Fixed crash in Aircraft selector if the number of aircraft variation is wrong
• Fixed hotas & echo controller icon display in menus
• Improved the performance of canvas rendering in HTML/JS instruments.
• Fixed a memory leak in the visual transition, causing visual degradation after long flights.

General fixes and flight systems

• Fixed Safe mode popup appearing when launching the title from the .exe file, even if the game was previously closed safely.
• Fixed an issue where icons for some inputs were not visible in the action settings input list
• Fixed focusing an airport on the world map sometimes not working correctly.
• Fixed blank registrations when there was too much traffic
• Fixed an issue where subtitles were disappearing when pausing the game
• Fixed aircraft external weights sometimes loaded wrong after changing aircraft
• Added a 10% margin over Vne before velocity may cause a crash.
• Fixed an issue with routes in old BGL files not loading correctly.
• Added support for holding patterns defined on waypoints – terminal or enroute.
• Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
• Fixed an issue where destination and alternate airport predictions were not displayed correctly on the FMC PROGRESS page.

Career and air-racing activity

• Added new missions filters on the worldmap career.
• Fix mission failure in preflight when no parking is available
• Fixed “Enter runway” sometime appears during the initial climb.
• Updated back on tracks on STOL races
• Added a final lap detection for crew leader lines
• Added Replay for Roswell
• Removed leaderboard score registering in STOL practice
• Added STOL in solo mode
• Fixed transition to reward screen never ending

Other aircraft-specific changes include a new autopilot for the Cessna 185F, a Lufthansa livery for four Airbus models, and fixes to aircraft controls, instruments, lighting, collision, and cockpit interactions. The patch also updates airports and world points of interest, corrects issues in several Garmin and other avionics systems, and expands tools and SDK support for creators.

Which addition are you most interested in trying, the National Championship Air Races or live marine traffic? Follow the activity’s arrival and other simulator changes on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Developed by Asobo Studio

Pursue your dream of an aviation career with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This brand-new simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, graphics and gaming to create the most sophisticated, immersive and awe-inspiring flight simulator of all time. To achieve this unprecedented level of accuracy, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is powered by the significantly evolved Asobo Studio engine.

• Genre Simulator
• Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation VR2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
• Perspective First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
• Modes Single player, Multiplayer
• Release November 19, 2024
• Publisher Xbox Game Studios
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