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Today in Flight Simulation News – January 3, 2026

Giuseppe Nelva

Flight Simulation developers shared news today, focusing on aircraft and airports for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, MSFS 2020, and X-Plane.

Simulation Daily publishes a roundup every day for all the news across the flight simulation field, helping you keep up to date with the ins and outs of the industry.

Without further ado, I leave you with the news.

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Announced for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

SkyHigh Studios announced Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (LHBP) in Hungary.

You can enjoy the first screenshots above.

Pilot Experience Sim Reacts Vehemently to Competing Paris Charles de Gaulle Announcements

Pilot Experience Sim has been working on a rendition of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG) butv the French developer apparently does not appreciate others like Aerosoft and more recently Azrsim stepping into what it seems to consider its claimed territory.

Today the developer issued a “press release” talking about the development of the airport and providing some interesting informatiojn on it, but also rather vehemently condemning other developers’ projects as “lack of ethics.”

You can read the full, unedited text below.

“In recent months, we have seen the successive announcement of several LFPG projects for Microsoft Flight Simulator and MSFS 2024, which appeared well after our own official announcement.

We won’t hide our disappointment at the lack of ethics observed in this context as no one had had the courage to take up the challenge until our announcement.

LFPG is not an airport like any other: it is a complex, iconic platform that deserves serious, well-documented treatment that respects operational reality.

Unlike other teams, we are French, based locally, and that changes everything.

We have direct and real access to the site, made possible thanks to the involvement of active professionals and special authorizations:

-Air traffic controllers,
-Pilots,
-Ramp agents
-Airport operational staff.

Thanks to them, we have been able to collect more than 250 GB of references, including 120 GB of 4K videos, with more than 5 hours of complete commented tours covering all areas of the airport, including those usually inaccessible to the public or absent from traditional documentation.

These concrete references allow us to work on a factual, accurate, and up-to-date basis, rather than on approximations or generic sources.

Our goal is not to be “just another LFPG,” but to be the LFPG reference:

*Unprecedented operational realism,
*Extreme visual fidelity, down to details that only professionals know,
*Innovative technologies developed specifically for this scene,
*Advanced optimization to ensure solid performance despite a very high level of detail.
*Regular updates

We remain fully focused on our vision:

To offer an ultra-detailed, deeply realistic, long-lasting scene that is faithful to what Paris–Charles de Gaulle is really like today.

Quality, legitimacy, and seriousness always shine through in the end.

We will continue to communicate transparently about the project’s progress, with supporting evidence.”

Usually, we would not publish this kind of bluster, but since it was advertised explicitly as a “press release,” and presents some relevant information about the airport itself, we decided to make an exception to our approach averse to drama.

It’s worth mentioning that the Microsoft Flight Simulator market is full of multiple copies of the same airport, and while we understand the emotional reaction to having competition, it’s highly illogical to believe that announcing an airport serves as some sort of exclusive claim and contesting that claim with competing products can be defined as “lack of ethics.”

Of course, we’ll keep reporting about the progress on all versions of the airport, and we encourage professional respect among developers, even in the presence of competing commercial interests.

B-1B Lancer for X-Plane Gets New Screenshots and Development Update

AoA Simulations showcased its B-1B Lancer bomber in development for X-Plane 12. As usual, the developer also provided a brief development update.

“We haven’t been idle over the past two weeks, and the cockpit and its avionics continue to evolve. We are managing to work in parallel on modeling and programming, which keeps everyone busy.

The side consoles should be finished next week. Next will be the ejection seats and the addition of static details in the cockpit.”

Learjet 35A Released Natively for MSFS 2024

Flysimware released the native MSFS 2024 version of its Learjet 35 business jet. It’s available on Simmarket for $80.45. If you have the version for MSFS 2020, the upgrade price is approximately $56.

The aircraft features the following features.

FEATURES

MODEL VARIATION

AVIONIC VARIATION

PAINT THEMES

If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.

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