Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including aircraft and airports for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Incidentally, today we also published the 23rd episode of “This Week in Flight Simulation News” recapping the news from last week, and it certainly was a very big week.
Without further ado, you can check out the news below.
Nanchang CJ-6A Released for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and MSFS 2024
UHI Products released the Nanchang CJ-6A trainer aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
It’s available for $18.99 on Just Flight’s store, and it includes the following features.
- Fine-tuned Microsoft native flight model and animations designed with reference to the actual aircraft.
- Flight dynamics parameters based on actual flight manual data, with testing and feedback from real pilots in China and North America.
- Engine sounds recorded from the actual aircraft with Wwise sound package.
- Compressed-air-driven engine start, landing gear, flaps, brakes and a functional emergency cold air system (please read the ‘Read First.pdf’ in advance).
- Gravity-fed fuel tanks (simulating unbalanced fuel supply).
- Attitude indicator drift
- Tandem cockpit, operable from both front and rear seats, with rear-seat control priority consistent with the actual aircraft.
- Cold start capability for the rear seat via commands, and remote control of front-seat operations (autopilot function).
- Switchable cockpit labels in Chinese and English.
- Interchangeable metric and imperial flight instruments (airspeed indicator, altimeter, vertical speed indicator).
- Optional modern GPS navigation system (requires installation of the free PMS 530 plugin).
- Left-turning constant-speed, variable-pitch propeller for unique flight experiences.
- Ground differential braking steering (please read the ‘Read First.pdf’ in advance).
- Support for aerial aerobatic manoeuvres, including smoke display capabilities.
- Multi-level LOD design, enabling online co-piloting with friends.
- Manual and instructions in Chinese and English.
- 15+ liveries
Taranto-Grottaglie Airport Announced for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Shadowing Aviation revealed Taranto-Grottaglie Airport (LIBG) in Italy for both MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020.
The reveal was made via a listing on Simmarket that still isn’t available for purchase. It’s priced at $23.45 and came with the screenshots in the gallery above.
Katowice Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator Gets New Screenshots and Development Update
Drzewiecki Design revealed more work-in-progress screenshots of the upcoming Katowice Airport (EPKT) in Poland.
The post also included the traditional brief development update from the developer.
“This week was all about bringing the EPKT Katowice terminal and its surroundings to life.
Inside the main building, new furnishings arrived: benches, seating modules, and check-in desks, plus freshly modeled railings, vestibules on the ground floor, additional corridor sections, glazing details, nameplates, and clocks. We’ve also been assembling and placing interior elements across halls and concourses, while Terminal A moves toward completion in parallel.
Airside and landside are getting busier: animated trains are now running, static equipment and vehicles have been fully laid out, and we’ve populated the apron, terminal frontage, and the tower with crowds to capture real traffic patterns. New manholes and small utilities were added across the pavements and aprons for extra realism.
Around the field, a tanker fuel station is in, and work has started on a church landmark used as the ‘November’ VFR reporting point for local procedures. Ongoing test runs continue to validate placement, lighting, and performance under different scenarios.”
Pistas de Garimpo Landing Strips Released for MSFS 2024
Tchockozzo released the massive “Pistas de Garimpo” package for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It’s available on Simmarket for $21.10.
It includes 160 small and challenging landing strips in the Amazon rainforest, used to support mining operations. If you like challenging and short strips with uneven terrain, this may very well be up your alley.
It’s worth mentioning that if you are on MSFS 2020, you’re not left out, as a quite popular version of this add-on is available for free on Flightsim.to.
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.
If you want to go further back, we have a handy overview video of the major flight simulation news in the past week. You can watch it below. As usual, leaving a like and a comment and subscribing to our growing YouTube channel is extremely helpful.
