Today, Just Flight showcased the upcoming Fokker 100 and Fokker 70 airliners in development for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
We get to see a rather spectacular trailer and screenshots portraying a recent build of the airliner, which is said to be “getting close to the finish line.” It’ll launch “as soon as possible in 2026.”
Of course, this is much later than what we initially expected, since it was scheduled for the first half of 2025, but a modern airliner with an integrated glass cockpit is much more complex than the aircraft Just Flight has developed so far.
We hear that the flight model has been tuned to correctly reproduce the underperformance of heavily laden Fokker 100s at high altitude. The flare behavior has been heavily tweaked to avoid floating, alongside the engine parameters during engine start.
The sound set has been submitted, and it’s currently in the feedback phase from testers, and an in-depth sound-dedicated video will come in due course.
The liveries will have a configuration file like the BAE 146 and Fokker F28, allowing livery creators to include the correct external equipment by default. Each livery also has a custom data plate in the flight deck, behind the captain’s seat.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is currently available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. If you’d like to hear more about the simulator, you can watch our latest interview with Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is available only for PC and Xbox.
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