Jorg Nuemann just announced that AAU4 - Avionics and Aircraft Update 4 - will be released along side Sim Update 5 “in a few weeks”. Interestingly, he said it was available to try in the booth at FSWeekend, even though it’s not part of the SU5 beta testing.
“You should think of this as our plan - our plan is to upgrade all of our 2020 Payware planes to the 2024 standard, which can mean new artwork, better audio, new systems, career integration, new liveries, whatever makes sense per plane. We did make over 30 Payware planes, so it’s going to take us a while. We will roll these out as part of AAUs - so there will be AAU5, AAU6, and it will take us some time but they will all be coming. And what’s also great is that these upgrades are free - for those of you who already own these planes, it’s going to be free.” – Jorg Neumann
The details for AAU 4 are: 5 updated aircraft, plus Avidyne IFD 540 & IFD 550 avionics as sim attachments (drop in) for developers.
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ATR 42 and 72 (Expert Series 01 | Expansion PR | Poll ) updates from Hans Hartman: now 2024 native, supports career, passengers, cargo, and VIP, new CFD model, new Air Tahiti High Line variant, new liveries like Loganair and Indigo, MSFS EFB and Flight Planner support, in plane EFB, Nav and Autopilot improvement, improved cabin cam.
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Antonov AN-2 (Famous Flyer 05 | Poll ) from AT Simulations, conversion to 2024, supports career passenger, cargo, crop dusting, fire fighting, and sky diving. Updated electrical system, fuel system, liveries, wipers, EFB, checklists, night lighting, wheels, skis and floats, GPS equipped panel (from Working Title)
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Fokker F.VII (Local Legend 02 | Poll ) orginally by Orbx, reworked by IniBuilds, extended career support, dedicated passenger, private and cargo configurations. Improved flight model and artwork.
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Latécoère Model 631 (Local Legend 09 | Poll ) updated for 2024 by BlueMesh, fixed over 40 bugs, aligned fuselage, new animations, passengers visible in seats.
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Savoia-Marchetti S.55 (Local Legend 04 | Poll ) by Mike Johnson, updated for 2024.
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Avidyne IFD 550 & 540 GPS Navigators. An aircraft-specific version came with the Boom XB-1 last year. Working Title have made these available to developers as Sim Attachments (which I think means “drop in”)
Here is the section of the video from the Keynote with Dominik Gallus from Working Title
