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July 9th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

Weekly Recap Following last week’s release of Sim Update 5.1 and World Update 22: United States National Parks, we are now pleased to begin the Sim Update 6 Pre-Release Public Beta Test.

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changedFollowing last week’s release of Sim Update 5.1 and World Update 22: United States National Parks , we are now pleased to begin the Sim Update 6 Pre-Release Public Beta Test . You can find the release notes for the first test build (1.8.5.0) on our forums here . If you would like to participate in this optional public beta test, you can find instructions on how to enroll (available on PC-Windows Store, PC-Steam, XBOX Series X|S, and PlayStation 5) in this forum thread .

changedFor those in the beta, your timely feedback and bug reports are absolutely essential and valued greatly by the dev team. Please be sure to vote in our surveys for each test build and report any issues you encounter in the appropriate subsection of the SU6 Beta forums . Thank you to everyone for their participation and assistance in helping make SU6 the best it can be!

addedWe are also excited to announce a special livestream on our official Twitch channel next week starting at 12:00pm PDT (1900 UTC) on Wednesday, July 15 . In this broadcast, we’ll be joined by developers from iniBuilds and Synaptic Simulations to demo their upcoming A220 ! Simmers who enjoy flying modern narrow-body airliners will definitely want to tune in for this livestream for a deep dive into the features of this highly-anticipated new aircraft add-on. For a sneak peek, you can watch the A220 trailer on YouTube at the link below:

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Weekly Recap

Following last week’s release of Sim Update 5.1 and World Update 22: United States National Parks, we are now pleased to begin the Sim Update 6 Pre-Release Public Beta Test. You can find the release notes for the first test build (1.8.5.0) on our forums here. If you would like to participate in this optional public beta test, you can find instructions on how to enroll (available on PC-Windows Store, PC-Steam, XBOX Series X|S, and PlayStation 5) in this forum thread.

For those in the beta, your timely feedback and bug reports are absolutely essential and valued greatly by the dev team. Please be sure to vote in our surveys for each test build and report any issues you encounter in the appropriate subsection of the SU6 Beta forums. Thank you to everyone for their participation and assistance in helping make SU6 the best it can be!

We are also excited to announce a special livestream on our official Twitch channel next week starting at 12:00pm PDT (1900 UTC) on Wednesday, July 15. In this broadcast, we’ll be joined by developers from iniBuilds and Synaptic Simulations to demo their upcoming A220! Simmers who enjoy flying modern narrow-body airliners will definitely want to tune in for this livestream for a deep dive into the features of this highly-anticipated new aircraft add-on. For a sneak peek, you can watch the A220 trailer on YouTube at the link below:

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