Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including an update and airports for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
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Without further ado, I leave you with today’s flight simulation news.
MSFS 2024 Sim Update 5.1 Released
Microsoft and Asobo released Sim Update 5.1 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. While it’s a smaller update, it fixes quite a few issues left by Sim Update 5
Below you can read the full update notes.
- Improved handling of texture mip streaming quality during high memory pressure conditions.
- Improved terrain degradation when memory is getting low.
- Fixed various crashes and improved memory usage.
- Fixed an issue with the electrical system that caused some avionics & systems to think that a circuit had been powered off periodically causing some reboots and loss of function.
- Mission availability times now take runway lighting systems at both the departure and arrival airports into account, allowing missions to start or end at night when adequate lighting is available.
- Fixed burn ground effect in firefighting missions.
- On PlayStation 5, fixed an issue that would prevent to launch heavy cargo missions.
- Fixed attenuation factors being calculated with a one frame delay for legacy sounds (based on WAV files)
- Fixed base address for virtual allocs of WASM modules linear memory on PS5 (avoids crash with the Aerostar 600)
- Fixed WASM failures on PS5 when modules have been built with SDK 1.6.9 and higher (avoids crashes with the 2024 version of the ATR)
- Added support for dynamic VFS on-demand files to avoid using too much memory when accessing streamed files through WASI
- Fixes swapped parameters in new JS map listener weather radar methods added in SU5.
Corfu Airport for MSFS 2024 Releasing Tomorrow
Gaya Simulations released a trailer for its upcoming Corfu International Airport (LGKR) in Greece.
We also hear that the airport will release tomorrow, June 30, at 18:00 Zulu Time. It’ll mark the return of the developer to selling directly to the public after years of working exclusively for Microsoft.
Tocumen International Airport Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
DominicDesignTeam released Tocumen International Airport (MPTO), serving Panama City for both MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020.
It’s available on iniBuilds for $21.11. You can see what it looks like in the trailer above.
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