March 26th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

Weekly Recap

Many members of the MSFS team were in Lelystad, Netherlands last week for the annual FSWeekend event!

We welcomed thousands of event attendees to have hands-on time with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PC, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 Pro using a variety of flight control peripherals from vendors such as Honeycomb Aeronautical, Moza, Thrustmaster, Tobii, and Turtle Beach. Attendees could even compete for the daily high score at different landing challenges and Red Bull Air Races for their chance to win fantastic flight control peripherals!

Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann also appeared at FSWeekend by pre-recorded video to make several announcements:

• AddedCity Update 14The Netherlands and Belgium is available now as a FREE download on all platforms from the in-sim Marketplace.
• AddedLocal Legend 23Fokker F27 Friendship is also available now from the Marketplace for USD $19.99.

• Launching together with the upcoming Sim Update 5 (targeted for release in April) will be Aircraft & Avionics Update 4 (AAU4). This update will bring improvements to the following European-designed aircraft, updating them to MSFS 2024 native versions (with other aircraft updates coming in future AAUs):

  • Antonov An-2

  • ATR 42-600 / 72-600

  • Fokker F.VII

  • Latecoere 631

  • Savoia-Marchetti S.55

• PSVR2 support was confirmed to launch with Sim Update 5! Attendees at FSWeekend were able to try a work-in-progress implementation running on PS5 Pro consoles at our booth!

  • Giuseppe Nelva from Simulation Daily wrote about his hands-on time with MSFS 2024 using PSVR2. You can read his article at this link.

• Finally, Jorg revealed that the next Developer Livestream is planned for April (exact date TBD). We had originally planned to hold a live audience Q&A during the FSWeekend keynote, but Jorg was unable to attend in-person due to a family health emergency. Stay tuned for more information about the this upcoming livestream. If you would like to pre-submit a question to the panel in advance, you can do so by completing this web form.

You can watch Jorg’s entire presentation courtesy of FSElite on their YouTube channel here:

Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!