Hi everyone,
We are 5 months into our last major forum re-organization. Since then, we have taken your feedback and discussed any current pain points with our most active users and moderators. We will be making some changes to the forum categories to accommodate that feedback and review again at the end of the year. Please see the new forum flow below:
Re-organized Forum Categories
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Provide your feedback in threads, join community fly-in events, browse through user-made content, and more. Learn more about who manages and supports these forums by reading about the Forum Team here.
Sub-categories:
Please click on each sub-category to see and overview of the section and its changes.
News & Announcements
This category will remain unchanged. It is where the MSFS Community Team will post Official News, Dev Updates, Release Notes, Forum News, and more. This is a great sub-category to subscribe to new posts to receive a notification whenever we post something new!
Navigate to the category and in the top right click the bell and choose “Watching” to get notified on new posts.
Official Feedback
No changes to this category. It contains threads posted by the MSFS Community Team. Every time there is a new update or piece of official content, you can come to this sub-category to leave your feedback and/or vote in an official poll related to the new content. Here you will not be able to make new threads, just respond in various official-discussion topics.
As a reminder, this is not a place for reporting bugs, but expressing your sentiment and overall opinions on the new update or content piece. If you are finding bugs, please still create a bug report in the Bug section so we can properly log it internally. Bugs that are reported in Feedback Threads will likely get lost in the mix of replies.
NEW: Official Tips & Troubleshooting
This sub-category is where our Customer Support Team will provide read-only tips, current known/emerging issues, and useful troubleshooting steps.
Community Events
No change to this category. Please continue to create and attend community events while following the Event Creation rules of this sub-category.
Community Guides
This sub-category will combine Pilot Guides, SDK Tutorials, and Tech Guides together and will be on an approval-only basis. If you have a guide to share, feel free to submit it for review.
Content Creators
No change to this category. Please continue to post videos and content while following the Content Creator Posting Rules of this sub-category.
Forum Guides
No change in this category, just moved for convenience and visibility for new users looking to understand how the forums work!
Friends, Clubs & Groups
No change to this category. Feel free to advertise your simming groups, share your gamertags, and look for friends to fly with here.
Screenshots & World Discovery
No change to this category. Share screenshots, routes, locations, and more here.
Wishlist
This sub-category is moving to differentiate from Bug Reports. It exists for you to vote for a feature you’d like to see in the sim in the future or to create a new topic if you have an idea for the sim that is not already listed. Please only create one feature request per thread, and don’t forget to vote for your favorites! This lets us know what you find most important while making decisions on the future of the sim.
General Discussion & Community Support
After a lot of thought, we are combining these main categories together. This will be a place to both discuss AND ask questions from fellow simmers about the sim, whether a core sim question or a 3rd party product question.
Sub-categories:
Please click on each sub-category to see and overview of the section and its changes.
General Discussion
No change to this category. General Discussion encompass any general discussion or miscellaneous topic related to Microsoft Flight Simulator that does not fall under any of the other sub-categories.
3rd Party Product Announcements
No change in this category, just moved for convenience and visibility. 3rd party developers (freeware or payware) wishing to post announcements in this category must read and apply to acquire the Verified Forum 3rd Party Developer role.
UPDATE: Aircraft
This is a sub-category meant for simmers to discuss, ask or answer any questions related to aircraft and aircraft functionality.
This space is open for both 1st party (base sim) content as well as 3rd party content. Please use tags to indicate any locations or products you are discussing.
UPDATE: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
This is a sub-category meant for simmers to discuss, ask or answer any questions related to avionics, sim physics, aircraft systems, ATC, NAVAIDs, flight planning, and Live and AI Offline Traffic.
This space is open for both 1st party (base sim) content as well as 3rd party content. Please use tags to indicate any locations or products you are discussing.
Gliders
This sub-category is a discussion area for 1st or 3rd party gliders! This is not a bug-reporting area.
Helicopters
This sub-category is a discussion area for 1st or 3rd party helicopters! This is not a bug-reporting area.
Home Cockpit Builders
This sub-category is for discussion of the building of home cockpit setups.
Menus & Activities
This is a sub-category meant for simmers to discuss, ask or answer any questions related to the settings, assistance preferences, general options, world map, aircraft selection, hangar, achievements, user interface design, sim activities, and other menu options.
This space is open for both 1st party (base sim) content as well as 3rd party content. Please use tags to indicate any aircraft or products you are discussing.
Real-life Aviation
This sub-category is for discussion of real-life aviation, whether it’s to talk about progress on your PPL or sharing the latest in aviation! Please remember it is still against the Code of Conduct to discuss politics and religion, so please do not post about real life aviation events that include these themes, including plane crashes.
SDK
This sub-category is to discuss, ask or answer questions about the SDK. We encourage you to become users of the main SDK forums located at https://devforums.flightsimulator.com/, but you may use this space for various other discussions. Please use tags in this space to help forum users easily find post topics.
UPDATED Name: Tech Talk
This is a sub-category meant for simmers to discuss, ask or answer any questions related to sim installation, performance, crashes (CTDs), graphics and optimization, hardware, peripherals, community folder/add-ons, and anything that falls under the umbrella of “running the sim”.
This space is open for both 1st party (base sim) content as well as 3rd party content, but we ask that you specify with tags or in your first post so users may be able to assist you correctly.
Tools & Utilities
This sub-category to discuss, ask or answer question about any tools or utilities you are using for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Virtual Reality (VR)
This sub-category is to discuss, ask or answer anything related to Virtual Reality. This is not a bug-reporting area. Please use tags in this space to help forum users easily find post topics related to their specific VR headset.
World
This is a sub-category meant for simmers to discuss, ask or answer any questions related to scenery (photogrammetry, DEM, TIN); airports; weather; live weather; fauna, land, and sea traffic.
This space is open for both 1st party (base sim) content as well as 3rd party content. Please use tags to indicate any locations or products you are discussing.
Bug Reports
No changes to this category except for moving Wishlist out of it. This section is for Official bug reporting and voting. Before you create a bug report, use the search function to look up your issue as someone may have already reported it. If they have, feel free to vote and add your issue to the thread. If there are no reports on your issue, create a new topic in the sub-category that best fits the description and follow the bug-reporting template.
There should be only one bug described per topic you create.
Here is a guide to some of the Official Tags used:
feedback-logged - A Community Feedback is logged in our database to verify the bug. Note: If the feedback is verified as a bug, the thread’s tag will be changed for “Bug logged”
bug-logged - The issue reported by the community is logged as a bug in our database. Note: Once logged, the team will be working on a fix for a future update
need-your-help - Unable to reproduce, need further information
workaround - A workaround is available
fixed-on-live - The issue previously reported is now fixed on the current version of the sim
Sub-categories:
The sub-categories remain unchanged.
- Activities
- Aircraft & Systems
- ATC, Traffic & NAVAIDs
- Crashes (CTDs)
- Hardware & Peripherals
- Install, Performance & Graphics
- Scenery & Airports
- Virtual Reality (VR)
- Weather & Live Weather
- Miscellaneous
Resolved Bugs
This sub-category is where any bug or wishlist thread goes once the initial issue in the thread is resolved.
Tags
Please continue to tag your posts with appropriate aircraft, locations, peripherals, platforms, etc. Tags are extremely helpful when new users are searching for specific issues. Some sub-categories will have a tag requirement and a list of tags for you to pick from, while others will be up to you.
If there is a certain tag you would like for your post that does not exist yet, please DM @moderators your suggestion. Thank you!
When will this happen and what is this notification on my thread?
These changes will go into effect this week (May 8 - 12). Please be mindful that your may receive notifications about your thread being “edited” or “moved” - this will be a result of it being merged into a different category. Thank you for your patience!