Flight Simulation developers shared some interesting news today, including scenery coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and even a free airport, on top of the announcement of another one for X-Plane.
Yet, before we get to today’s news, you can check out a story that received individual coverage.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator Space Shuttle Released
- Microsoft Flight Simulator Official Marketplace Removes Ban on Cosmetic Weapons
You can check out all the news below.
Avro Vulcan for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Coming Next Week
Just Flight announced that the port of its Avro Vulcan bomber for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 should be released next week.
The exact date will be revealed at a later time, but for now we get to see some very fetching screenshots.
Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020 Gets New Screenshots
Photorico Scenery revealed new screenshots of Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport (TJIG) also known as Isla Grande Airport serving San Juan, Puerto Rico.
At the moment, we don’t yet know when it’ll be released, but it’s coming for both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020.
Lockheed JetStar for Microsoft Flight Simulator Shows Work-in-Progress CIVA INS
Big Radials is continuing to work on its Lockheed JetStar business jet currently in early access, and this time we get to see work done on the CIVA INS, alongside a small development update from the developer.
“Back working on the CIVA INS today and updating the Aircraft Checklist with a section on initialising the CIVA. Going well so far but doing so made me realise I had to redo the way I had implemented inputs for setting the Initial Position and Updating/Inserting Waypoints.
I also found an issue when converting between decimal degrees to the DMS format the CIVA uses which is actually deg + minutes with seconds displayed as a 1/10th of a minute i.e. 30sec = 0.5mins. There were certain combinations of data entry that would create a conversion error since I store the positions in decimal. So that function got a rewrite
I’ve also started introducing error checking conditions so that the Alert button illuminates.”
If you’d like to get into flight simulation but you’re perhaps a bit intimidated by its apparent complexity, you can read our introductory guide, alongside the second episode focusing on installing add-ons, and another showcasing the basic instruments.
You can also read more flight simulation news in the previous roundup article.