At the start of a new week, Flight Simulation developers provided news and releases of add-ons for both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and its predecessor, MSFS 2020.
You can check out all the news below.
Cessna Citation Sovereign+ for Microsoft Flight Simulator and MSFS 2024 Gets New Screenshots
Skyward Simulations released on its Discord server new screenshots of its upcoming Cessna Citation 680 Sovereign+, showcasing more of the external model.
While the aircraft is portrayed in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 here, the developer is also working on the MSFS 2024 version.
Mumbai Airport Coming for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
MSK production is working on porting its Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (VABB) serving Mumbai in India to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
While no release dates were provided, you can see a few screenshots above.
Sunshine Coast Airport v2 Coming for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020
Shunt Scenery is working on a v2 of its Sunshine Coast Airport (YBSU) in Australia.
The airport will be coming to both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020 soon, and above you can see work-in-progress screenshots in both simulators.
Seasons Enhanced by Bijan Released for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Many know Bijan Habashi for bringing seasons to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 much b before 2024 was even announced.
Now that the new simulator is out and has its own seasonal variation, the developer is back with a package to improve it as follows:
- Southern Hemisphere – Added missing/wrong seasons in cities in the Southern hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa.
- Worldwide – Added missing spring blossoms to most cities.
- Worldwide – Reduced oversized trees in cities.
- Modified and enhanced trees in Scandinavian countries.
- Removed Giant sequoia trees from higher mountains and updated trees.
- Removed palm trees from cities in following states: Washington, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee.
- Extended fall season for about a month.
- Enhanced all deserts vegetarian.
- Added more color and depth to green trees.
- Reduced vivid colors from eucalyptus trees
- Added missing red color leaf trees to autumn trees.
- Reduced over populated trees in many areas.
- Added new seasonal bushes and scrubs.
- Removed most trees from Iceland.
- Removed all pine trees from shores and higher hills in Scotland and added pine plantations.
- Reduced excess trees from rural areas and replaced them with bushes in England.
- Enhanced Birch Forest in Norway. Moved away trees from water edges by a few feet.
- Redesigned Los Angeles to native trees, added palm, mexican palm, jacaranda and cypress trees.
- Added pine trees in Angeles National Forest in the Los Angeles area.
- Remove trees from higher elevation in Canary Island, Alps, Himalayan mountains, etc.
- Added more variety of trees in Canary Island.
- Enhanced vegetation in Greenland (removed most)
- Removed bamboo forest from cities in Japan.
- Fixed bamboo trees that would drop leaves in winter.
- Added more olive trees in Italy.
- Spain trees updated.
- Added red blossom Royal Poinciana trees in Hawaiian cities.
- Reduce pine tree sizes in Grand Canyon
- Added Shunan Bamboo Forest covering 46 square miles, Hundreds of millions of bamboo trees, covering 27 mountains and more than 500 peaks.
- Added Black Forest in Germany
- Added fern looking plants to New Zealand
- Elevation fix for New Zealand – Removed trees from top of volcanoes.
- Removed leftover trees from antarctica and arctic areas.
- Added more deciduous trees that change in fall season in NorthEast USA.
- Removed pine forest from Texas.
- Iran trees updated
- Trees removed from shiraz.airport.
- Added palm and date trees to desert cities.
- Huge trees removed in Tokyo and Vancouver from buildings.
- Reduced trees in Greece.
- Better transition of trees from cities to outside cities
- Added missing banana trees, date trees, and coconut trees in some of the rainforests.
- Cyprus Island trees updated.
- Trees removed from Svalbard Islands.
It’s available on Simmarket for $17.72, but those who purchased the previous Earth FX by the developer for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 get an upgrade for free.
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.