From the (very interesting) FSElite interview:
More info here:
I am hoping at this event more peripheral manufacturers will exhibit PS5 gear.
You can let your preferences know in their survey
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Schedule here
I see Meridian are there! Everything still apparently on back order.
MSFS are first thing on Saturday and allegedly this event is being streamed. Don’t know where though.
Will post the link here.
They’ve booked themselves for a 30 minutes slot. i had hoped for more.
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30 minutes is crazy considering we have been hearing about all the things they want to divulge (or rather that’s my assumption if you decide to go to one of these).
I hope we get to find out where to watch the stream (or that is what you said you would do - thanks)
Hey, I’m just pleased Asha Sharma still signed off on the travel plans.
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Hopefully, they don’t announce MSFS 28, lol. I’m finally getting this one to run smooth and starting to enjoy myself.
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That’s too big an announcement for a hobbyist con, 24 was first shown at their yearly Xbox Showcase during Summer Games Fest
Even then it may be a year too early in the cycle assuming another release as late as possible
From the weekly blog
Next week the MSFS team will be in Lelystad, Netherlands for the FlightSim Weekend event! This will be our first time attending a dedicated flight sim community event in Europe, and we’re excited to meet many of you in person! If you’ll be attending FSWeekend, be sure to stop by the MSFS booth to meet members of the team and try your hand at various in-sim flying challenges for your chance to win some great prizes! We hope to see many of you there! Full details about the event can be found on the FSWeekend website here. The MSFS team has the largest booth in the exhibition hall, so we’ll be easy to find!
FlightSimWeekend: Later this month the annual FlightSimWeekend event will take place in Lelystad, Netherlands. This event is held at the Aviodrome Aviation Museum, which will be open for community members to explore alongside the event. The Microsoft Flight Simulator team will be present at the event, where we are looking forward to attending our first dedicated flight simulation event in Europe!
Glad they are presenting. My biggest hopes are:
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That there will be at least one booth with triple screens running MSFS, to keep hope alive that triple screens have ongoing support. I’m really nervous this functionality is slowly losing support…
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That Jorg announces the existing fleet of 130+ first party aircraft will be getting a lot more much needed love and maintenance on a regular ongoing basis.
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That whatever “new thing” comes out, it isn’t another half-baked, half-finished, “aspirational” announcement - but that it is fully thought through, tested, working, actually ready for release, and has an ongoing support contract to fix bugs in a much more timely manner…
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That there will be better clarity on the platform. What I mean is, I think Microsoft / Asobo have tried to do so many things in house (like Career) which probably would have been better if done by developers… So many things that end up being half finished. But since Microsoft wants everything on console and cloud, they keep trying to do it all themselves in house, and it creates a weird situation where they sort of compete with developers they should be incentivizing instead. Just my opinion.
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Hoping the A330 gets some love-would love to see A340 EFB features come to it and with the features we have on the A340 (especially with EIS1, time acceleration function, autosaves).
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FYI - the MSFS Presentation is now live - link in post above^^
Announcements MSFS:
- City Update Netherlands & Belgium
- AAU 4: Will be released together with SU5
- Antonov 2 upgrade, also for career mode
- Fokker 7 upgrade
- Latecoere flying boat upgrade
- And more…
- Promise to upgrade all planes to 24 standards in coming AAUs
- Fokker 27 Friendship as local legend
- VR coming to PS5.
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Jorg just announced via pre-recorded video Keynote address at FSWeekend, AAU4 - Avionics and Aircraft Update - would be included with Sim Update 5, “in a few weeks.”
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[edit: AAU4 coming with SU5] Includes …
- native MSFS 2024 versions of
- ATR, supporting career mode, CFD, new high line variant, new liveries, LIDO charts, cabin camera
- An-2, supporting career mode, EFB, different gears/floats, GPS from Working Title
- Fokker F.VII (update by iniBuilds), supporting career mode
- Latécoère 631
- S55 Savoia Marchetti
- plan is to upgrade every 2020 payware plane (over 30) to 2024 native version
- new Avidyne IFD 540 & 550 avionics
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Jorg just announced a few things will be included in SU5. He appeared via video at FSWeekend, I’m sure the video will show up on YouTube
- AAU4 will be included with SU5
- Includes updates to ATR and a few other aircraft in the Aviators edition
- Avidyne IFD 540 and 550 by Working Title
- More first party aircraft updates coming in AAU5, 6, etc
- PS5 VR
- Local Legend 23: Fokker F27 Friendship
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Finally the ATR 
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