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Fly with Purpose
Launch your aviation Career wherever you choose in the world. Gain experience, build your reputation, and complete certifications to gain access to authentic aviation activities ranging from Medevac, Remote Cargo Ops, Aerial Firefighting, Search & Rescue and more, all the way to becoming an Airline Passenger Transport Pilot. Set out on a truly global aviation adventure with virtually unlimited missions across the planet.



Compete against other pilots in the all-new Challenge League mode or hone your skills in dozens of Activities ranging from exciting Rally Races and Precision Landings to Low-Altitude challenges and more. Fly head-to-head in the iconic Red Bull Air Races and the legendary Reno Air Races, including the new Roswell courses.



Be a World Photographer and travel across our beautiful planet to capture awe-inspiring natural vistas, visit famous landmarks, and record these adventures with pictures in your travel book. Unique photo challenges test your creative eye along with your piloting skills while you strive to capture the perfect moment.



Advanced Simulation
Enhanced physics system allows 10,000+ rigid-body surfaces that enable the simulation of any shape of aircraft. Soft body physics supports cloth, ropes, balloons, and more. Improved ground and water handling further enhance realism.



New, highly accurate aircraft systems including electrical, pneumatic, fuel and hydraulic systems, payload and passenger systems, and avionics like the Universal UNS-1 FMS and Primus Epic 2. Preflight inspections and walkaround checks add to immersion.



Plan your flights with a groundbreaking flight planner which supports both IFR and VFR map layers, IFR charts, route planning, fuel and payload planning, vertical profile planning, and ETOPS planning. It also provides airport information including weather and NOTAMS and is available native in the sim, on mobile devices or web browsers for flight planning outside the simulator.



Explore Our Visually Stunning Digital Twin
Explore our most detailed re-creation of planet Earth to date. Enhanced digital elevation maps, over 500 TIN (triangular irregular network) cities and more than 100,000 square kilometers of countryside photogrammetry allow for visually stunning digital twin experiences. More than 150 airports, 2,000 glider airports, 10,000 heliports, 2,000 points of interest, and 900 oil rigs have been carefully hand-crafted while a procedural system generates all 40,000 airports, 80,000 helipads, 1.5 billion buildings, and nearly 3 trillion trees our planet.



Land anywhere and, for the first time in Microsoft Flight Simulator, exit your aircraft to explore 27 highly detailed biomes with hundreds of species of vegetation, dynamically created details including grass, rocks, and flowers – all influenced by seasonal changes. The all-new photometric lighting system renders the world more accurately than ever before, and enhanced weather features such as new cloud types, auroras, and other weather phenomena produce fresh and compelling atmospheric experiences.



The world comes alive with a vast array of land-based wildlife in their natural habitats and free-ranging livestock across the entire globe. The oceans and waterways are teeming with live, worldwide maritime traffic ranging from large tankers and cargo ships to trawlers, tugs, and more. A richly diverse, regionally accurate representation of humanity brings life to the airports, aircraft, and passenger cabins of the world. Enhanced real-world air traffic populates the skies and airport tarmacs with hundreds of accurately depicted aircraft models and dozens of officially licensed liveries.






Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Editions



Standard Edition
Explore the world with our largest Standard Edition fleet of aircraft and take simulation to new heights while pursuing your aviation career within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The Standard Edition includes over 65 aircraft and 150 handcrafted airports.

• Aero Vodochody L-39
  
• Aeroelvira Optica
  
• Air Tractor AT-802
  
• Airbus A310-300
  
• Airbus A320neo
  
• Airbus A321LR
  
• Airbus A330-200 / 200F / 300
  
• Airbus A330-743L Beluga XL
  
• Airbus A400M Atlas
  
• Airbus Helicopters H125
  
• Airship Industries Skyship 600
  
• Archer Midnight
  
• Aviat Pitts Special S1S
  
• Aviat Pitts Special S2S
  
• Beechcraft Bonanza G36
  
• Beechcraft King Air 350i
  
• Bell 407G
  
• Boeing 737 MAX 8
  
• Boeing 747-8I & 8F
  
• Boeing F/A-18E
  
• Cessna 152
  
• Cessna 172 Skyhawk (GP)
  
• Cessna 208 Grand Caravan Ex
  
• Cessna 400 Corvalis TT
  
• Cessna Citation CJ4
  
• CGS Hawk Arrow II
  
• Cirrus Vision SF50
  
• Cubcrafter NX-Cub
  
• Cubcrafter X-Cub
  
• Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"
  
• Daher TBM 930
  
• De Havilland Canada CL-415
  
• De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
  
• De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
  
• DG Aviation DG 1001E
  
• DG Aviation LS-8
  
• Diamond DA40 NG
  
• Diamond DA62
  
• Douglas Aircraft Company DC-3
  
• Draco X
  
• Erickson S-64 Aircrane
  
• Extra E330
  
• Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog
  
• Flight Design CTSL
  
• Grumman G-21A Goose
  
• Guimbal Cabri G2
  
• Heart Aerospace ES-30
  
• Hot Air Balloon N/A
  
• Hot Air Balloon Motor FlyDoo
  
• Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose"
  
• Icon A5
  
• Jetson Aero Jetson One
  
• JMB VL3
  
• Joby Aviation S4
  
• Magni M-24 Orion
  
• MX Aircraft Company MXS-R
  
• North American P-51
  
• North American T-6 Texan
  
• Pilatus PC-6 Porter
  
• Pilatus PC-12 NGX
  
• Powrachute Sky Rascal
  
• Robin CAP 10
  
• Robin DR400-100 Cadet
  
• Robinson R66
  
• Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis"
  
• Stemme S12-G
  
• Volocopter Volocity
  
• Wright Cycle Company Wright Flyer
  
• Zivko Aeronautics Edge 540
  
• Zlin Aviation Savage Cub

Deluxe Edition
The Deluxe Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition plus 10 additional aircraft and 5 additional handcrafted airports.

• Amphibian Aerospace Albatross G111/HU
  
• Beechcraft Baron G58
  
• Cessna 152 Aerobat
  
• Cessna 172 (SP)
  
• Cessna 188 AGTruck
  
• Cessna 404 Titan
  
• Cessna 408 SkyCourier
  
• Diamond DA40 TDI
  
• Diamond DV20
  
• Dornier SeaStar

Premium Deluxe Edition
The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition plus 25 additional aircraft and 10 additional handcrafted international airports.

• Airbus Helicopter H225
  
• Beechcraft C90 GTX King Air
  
• Boeing 747-400 Global Supertanker
  
• Boeing 747-400 LCE Dreamlifter
  
• Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
  
• Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
  
• Boeing CH47D Chinook
  
• Cessna Citation Longitude
  
• Cirrus Aircraft SR22
  
• Pilatus PC-24
  
• Pipistrel Taurus M
  
• Pipistrel Virus SW 121
  
• Saab 340B
  
• Zlin Aviation Savage Norden
  
• Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra

Aviator Edition
The Aviator Edition includes everything from the Premium Deluxe Edition plus the entire fleet of 30 Microsoft-published Marketplace aircraft developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator between 2021 and 2024.

• Aero Ae-45 / Ae-145
  
• Antonov An-2
  
• Antonov An-225
  
• ATR 42-600 / 72-600
  
• Beechcraft Bonanza V35
  
• Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing
  
• Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech
  
• Bell Helicopter 47J Ranger
  
• Boeing 307 Stratoliner
  
• Boeing 707-320C
  
• Cessna 195 Businessliner
  
• Cessna 207T
  
• Curtiss C-46 Commando
  
• De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
  
• Dornier Do J Wal
  
• Dornier Do 31
  
• Dornier Do X
  
• Douglas Aircraft Company & Waco C-47D Skytrain & CG-4A
  
• Focke-Wulff 200 Condor
  
• Fokker F.VII
  
• Ford 4AT Trimotor
  
• Granville Gee Bee R2 / Z
  
• Junkers F13
  
• Junkers JU 52
  
• Latécoère 631
  
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MU-2
  
• Saab 17 B
  
• Savoia-Marcketti S.55
  
• Short SC.7 Skyvan
  
• Westland Scout / Wasp

Latest news

• Announcements·11 Sept 2026Official

  September 10th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

  Weekly RecapNext week is the National Championship Air Races! For five days in Roswell, New Mexico, aviation fans will witness the world’s fastest motorsport as pilots compete in exhilarating wing-to-wing races. The MSFS Team will be present with a booth in Roswell where race attendees can be among the first in the world to try a pre-release build of the upcoming National Championship Air Races expansion, launching on all platforms on October 13th! Our sim setups will be powered by force feedback flight control peripherals compliments of MOZA, so air racing fans in attendance at Roswell will also have a chance for hands-on experience with this hardware.Earlier this week, the team deployed a server-side update to resolve two issues related to bugs in Career Mode. You can read the update notes on our forums here.Also this week, the highly-anticipated Hawker 800XP from developer FlightFX launched exclusively on the in-sim Marketplace. To celebrate the release, we recently connected with Nick from FlightFX for an interview to discuss the process of bringing this beautiful business jet to Microsoft Flight Simulator. You can read the full interview on our website here.Finally, we are currently preparing for our next Developer Livestream on our official Twitch channel. If you would like to pre-submit a question to the panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial, you may do so by completing this web form. All submissions will be manually reviewed by the team, and the most frequently-asked questions will be addressed by the panel during the broadcast. Stay tuned for more information about the date and time once those details are finalized. Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!
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• Announcements·3 Sept 2026Official

  September 3rd, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

  Weekly RecapMembers of the Microsoft Flight Simulator and Asobo Studios teams have recently returned from exhibiting at gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany. Attendees were able to get a first hands-on look at the upcoming National Championship Air Races mode within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, with 4-player private lobby races at the XBOX booth creating some thrilling gameplay! Thanks to everybody who came by our booth to try out this new activity which launches for all MSFS 2024 players on October 13th. Congratulations to the four fastest racers (one per day from Thursday to Sunday) who each received a remote control P-51 Mustang as a prize!During the XBOX @ gamescom broadcast last Thursday, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann also had four announcements to share with the community:National Championship Air Races is coming to MSFS 2024 on October 13Available now: City Update 16: ItalyAvailable now: Local Legend 25: Heinkel He 70 BlitzComing soon: Lufthansa 100 Years liveriesWe were also pleased to host a community mixer with members of the MSFS team and many flight sim fans who were in Cologne. We enjoyed some food and drink together while discussing our passion for flight simming and even played an aviation trivia game! Thank you to everyone who joined us!In other MSFS 2024 news, a small update (Sim Update 6.1, version 1.8.16.0) is now available on all platforms to address a few issues identified since the release of SU6 three weeks ago. You can read the full release notes for SU6.1 here.Also this week, the team at FlightFX have released the highly-anticipated V2 of the popular Cessna Citation X, available now via the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace. This free update brings a plethora of improvements and fixes across all areas of this business jet. You can read the full changelog for v2.1.4 here! Yesterday, Matt from the Community Team was joined by Cameron and Mike from the iniBuilds team for a first deep-dive look at their upcoming A380 Airl...
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• Announcements·24 Aug 2026Official

  Microsoft Flight Simulator Franchise Sale

  Celebrate Our Anniversary – Franchise Sale Starts TodayWe are celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) launch, which marked the celebrated return of Microsoft’s longest running, supported franchise.To make this a real celebration, we are running a franchise-wide sale that includes exciting new offers for both MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024. Our Steepest Discount YetIf you do not own Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yet, all versions of the simulator are 30% off until September 1st on the Windows Store, Xbox and Steam. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) is on sale for 65% off all versions, and the classic Microsoft Flight Simulator X is on sale at 80% off. Soundtrack – Free Until September 1stFor this week only, on Steam, you can get the newly released Microsoft Flight Simulator Soundtrack: Themes Reimagined for FREE until September 1st at 10 am. Download it now and enjoy 86 minutes of previously unreleased and beautiful music compiled from the release trailers you know and love. New Aircraft Pack OffersSince the launch of MSFS (2020), we have released 30 planes (19 Local Legends, 10 Famous Flyers and 1 Expert Series aircraft) individually on MSFS (2020) and then bundled those aircraft to create the Aviator Edition of MSFS 2024. If you already purchased the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Aviator Edition, then you already own the above 30 planes. To offer more choices, owners of the Standard, Deluxe and Premium Deluxe versions of either MSFS (2020) or MSFS 2024 can now buy these aircraft in three different packs of 10 aircraft each for only $39.99 on Steam, Windows and Xbox stores: The Microsoft Flight Simulator Local Legends Pack 1 includes the following 10 aircraft.Beechcraft Model 18 Twin BeechBoeing 307 StratolinerCessna 195 BusinesslinerDe Havilland Canada DHC-4 CaribouDornier Do J WalFokker F.VIIJunkers F13Junkers JU 52Latécoère 631Savoia-Marchetti S.55 / S.55XThe Microsoft Flight Simulator Local Legends Pack 2 includes the following 10...
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• Announcements·20 Aug 2026Official

  August 20th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

  Weekly RecapLast week we released Sim Update 6 on all platforms. If you missed the release notes for this major update, you can read them in full here. Also, please be sure to share your feedback and vote in our surveys and submit bug reports if you encounter any issues.Earlier this week we also released Aircraft and Avionics Update 5! This update includes enhancements to the following aircraft, upgrading them to the native MSFS 2024 framework and also adding support for appropriate Career Mode activities.Famous Flyer 06 Ford 4-AT TrimotorLocal Legend 10: Boeing 307 StratolinerLocal Legend 14: The Bell 47J RangerLocal Legend 17: The Curtiss C-46 CommandoAdditionally, Expert Series 1: The ATR 42-600 / 72-600 was also updated as part of AAU_05 to resolve several bugs and address feedback from the community. You can read the full release notes for AAU_05 here. Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!
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• Announcements·14 Aug 2026Official

  August 13th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing

  Weekly RecapSim Update 6 is now available on all platforms! Highlights of this release include the return of bush trips, support for Nvidia DLSS 4.5, updates to many aircraft, and thousands of other bug fixes and improvements. You can read the full release notes for SU6 here.Earlier this week, we released a new version of Famous Flyer 10: Boeing 707-320C. This version was built from the ground up as a collaboration between developers iniBuilds and Working Title. To showcase many of the exciting new features of this iconic jetliner, we hosted a livestream on our official Twitch channel yesterday with Community Manager Chewwy94 and Chris Burnett from Working Title. If you missed the broadcast live, you can watch the VOD on our YouTube channel here.Next week is a big milestone for Microsoft Flight Simulator: it’s the sixth anniversary of our launch on August 18, 2020! We have many exciting things planned to celebrate this anniversary, and we’re thrilled to be able to share one of these with you now. We will be hosting three separate livestreams next week on our official Twitch channel in which we will circumnavigate the globe departing from Bordeaux (home of Asobo Studio) and flying eastbound! We have a great roster of special guest co-hosts lined up, and there will also be some absolutely fantastic flight sim hardware prize giveaways to lucky viewers during each broadcast courtesy of MOZA, Next Level Racing, Pimax, Tobii, and WINCTRL!The schedule for the three circumnavigation group flights planned for next week is as follow:Monday, August 17 at 1800 UTCWednesday, August 19 at 1800 UTCFriday, August 21 at 2100 UTCYou can read the full details for the Sixth Anniversary Circumnavigation on our forums here. You must be present in Twitch chat to win one of the hardware prizes, so be sure to tune in to the Twitch livestream and join the group flight with other sim pilots from the community as we fly around the world!We have some other exciting ways to celebrate our sixth a...
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