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 - o…

In all the years I have been spending time on this forum and with this product, I have rarely, if ever, have heard of them announcing any such timeframe for a release. In short, it will release when it releases. EDIT: (This was a response to a now deleted post)

I like to answer such questions with: now < release < end of times Works pretty good, most of the times :upside_down_face:

I have waited AU 04 vainly…..It”s so bad

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According to this not today, and no release date. Aircraft & Avionics Update 04 (AAU_04) Release Information - Official Microsoft Flight Simulator / News & Announcements - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

Oh well. Better to take the time now to fix remaining issues than release with them. I need to go pick up that free Fokker in the meantime!

Yeah, I tend to agree with that as well. Better to wait for the good stuff.

The one thing we’ve all learned over the past six years is that, delayed or not, the planes will still launch full of bugs anyway — and they’ll probably stay that way for the next three or four years. So there’s really no reason not to release something that will be 30% broken earlier instead of 28%…

It’s fine if people feel that way. For me, if I lived in that negative head-space all the time, I’d just sell my PC.

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DriestKnight746 May 5, 2026, 8:05pm 58

Was this a way of saying, “AAU4 is out minus these aircraft”?