I tell ya what, since Asobo still can’t fix up the stock Savage Cub (2024), this may be the perfect replacement! Looking forward to you folks getting onto the 2024 development where I do all my bush flying now.
In the meantime, if you have Premium Deluxe the (Got Friends-developed) Savage Norden in FS2024 is superb for bush flying.
I didn’t get that, so I use the XCub for now which is nicely done and good for a modern feel. But the “retro itch” is always there… 
More bush planes, more better!
I think you can buy the Norden separately. Or rent it.
It’s worth picking up. IMHO the Norden and the Albatross are by far the best FS2024 planes.
You could also try Got Friends’ Legacy Collection, which includes the Monster NX, Savage Carbon and Savage Grravel, which are a marked improvement over the default Xcub
MSFSAddons x Got Friends Update
Featured Reward + Partner News
Last month, we partnered with MSFSAddons to support the launch of their Captain’s Club. The response to the complimentary Project Crosskart was strong, and we appreciate all the feedback from our community.
This month’s featured reward is also from us! The Astro ONE is now available to all active Captains. It’s a one-of-a-kind eVTOL built around experimentation, not convention. If you haven’t flown it yet, this is the one to try.
If you’re already in the Captain’s Club, you can claim it now directly from your dashboard.
If you’re not a member, Captain’s Club memberships are currently 25% off through April 15th, alongside monthly aircraft, rewards from our team and other partner rewards from favorites like Contrail, Carenado, SayIntentions and more.
This partnership with MSFSAddons is just getting started. We already have more free content, early access releases, and exclusive drops planned for future monthly rewards.
To be clear, we don’t receive direct monetary support for providing these rewards. This is simply one of the ways we give back to the flightsim community. We are not planning to launch our own subscription service, but this is the closest thing to it and we will be taking advantage of this partnership monthly.
If you enjoy what we build and want access to free aircraft and exclusive content, the Captain’s Club is definitely worth a look.
MSFSAddons News Article:
https://msfsaddons.com/2026/04/01/free-aircraft-a-new-got-friends-reward-and-25-off-memberships-the-captains-club-april-update/
Captain’s Club Signup:
https://msfsaddons.com/join-captains-club/
Got Friends’ Rewards Page:
Cheers,
Got Friends
Taylorcraft BC-12D – Community Preview
We’re starting to see some great moments coming out of beta, and this one from YoYo Yoyosims PL really stood out.
The Taylorcraft BC-12D is shaping up to be something special. Built around our Gravity Reactive Motion system, it brings a level of subtle movement and life that fits this class of vintage aircraft perfectly.
Testing continues to move smoothly, and we’re right on track. More previews from both our team and testers will be shared as we get closer to release.
Stay tuned for more information in the near future regarding release information, pricing and dates.
GotFriends Spring Sale website & marketplace! Up to 80% off!
Awesome opportunity to complete your collection at some really sweet discounts! Sale is live on both our website and the in-sim marketplace for both 2020 and 2024 content. Project Crosskart is down to just $1.99 and boatloads of fun for exploring offroad trails, esp with the new ground detail in 2024. It’s also the first time our Aeroprakt A32 Vixxen has gone on sale. Initially released in October of last year, its a chance for those who have not yet picked it up to see our latest work leading up to the Taylorcraft and Super Grravel!
Also come check out the refreshed website design, hope you guys find it easier to use compared to before and like the new layout and styling!
Another week closer - A tiny spring dev update
I want to share a personal thank you to everyone who took the time to write in with their first experience in the Vixxen. For many, it seems like it was a Double Ender & Wilga type situation where the quirky visual design of the aircraft made it a pass initially, but for those that took the leap on the recent sale, they fell in-love pretty quickly!
Those emails and messages on discord really make all the development hours worth it. So truly, thank you! 
For those looking for a progress update on Taylorcraft, we’re currently on Beta Version 1.0.2 (third beta build), and knocked off a handful items on the (still actively growing 57+ items) bug tracker. Currently we have about 21 people in closed testing. A few irl pilots, our CFII, and a handful of sim enthusiasts both casual, and also a set of very involved ones that actively compete in eSTOL. We even got two of our oldest testers that have been with us from early on to finally switch to MSFS 2024 which has been amazing to see. Their feedback shaped many of our first projects, ensuring they hit the mark on release day. We anticipate the same for all of our upcoming and future releases.
While we still don’t have any concrete timelines for the release of the Taylorcraft, we do believe the 2020 version is coming close and our final set of features are indeed locked in at this point. Will share more once all are implemented in the coming betas. We do also plan on sharing future polished builds with more of our friends who create content and the students of Heavenbound Aviation (who are currently training in both the BL65 and BC12D)- so you can expect to see more independent early first impressions (good & bad) from them as the month continues on Twitch tv, Forums, Discords and YouTube.
Our project lead, developer Jonx has been pushing though builds on these last few projects despite some personal health setbacks. We want to just take a moment to also thank our community for all the supportive messages and positive wishes as he works his way to a healthy recovery. For our team, its not just a member down with some bad luck, its like a brother still putting up a fight even when most would have long given up, many months ago. Thank you everyone for being such an amazingly patient and understanding community. The slower pace has been refreshing after an insanely busy 2024 set of back-to-back projects. Unfortunately, it feels like some of that grind all came back to bite us in some way, and for some, worse than others. If you catch Jonx around our discord, wish him well. I know that sorta morale boost makes a huge difference knowing friends are there to cheer you on while getting better!
Reminder for this upcoming week- MS/Asobo development live stream this Wednesday on Twitch! Will be the first one in a looong time. Excited to see what SU5 and the spring season has in store for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Much love guys,
-Dev Mykrode
I got the Vixxen in the sale and I’m loving it but I ran into small issues setting up the weights for it in free flight in 2024. The maximum weight allowable for pilot or co-pilot seems to be 77kg. I myself am around 88kg and while I could lose a little padding I don’t think of myself as being especially large! It seems a little odd to me that you have to be very trim to be allowed to sit in the aircraft. In the seats page of the EFB, the pilot and co-pilot seats also appear overlaid for me, making it hard to select one or the other, which I admit could be a msfs issue.
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this feedback!
Taylorcraft BC-12D: Our Love Letter to MSFS 2020
Information, Features, Previews and Pricing of our Grand Finale
Hello everyone, Brandon Yaeger here, founder of Got Friends.
Today, I want to take you on a journey. Not just into our next aircraft, but through the closing chapter of an era that changed our lives forever.
Five years ago, on this very day, Got Friends began its journey in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Four friends and five years of passion, risk, growth, trial and error, and chasing ideas that often felt bigger than ourselves. Through every step of that journey, you were there.
In the beginning, we were just having fun, throwing out uncanny aircraft and chasing the kinds of ideas that made us laugh as much as they made us curious. It was raw, experimental, and honestly just exciting to see what we could get away with. But then the Wilga happened. That was the moment things started to shift. What began as passion and chaos started turning into something real. The support, the response, the energy from the community, it all hit differently. That was when we realized this was becoming more than just a few friends making strange little airplanes for fun. It was becoming Got Friends.
This community gave our work meaning. Your support gave us fuel. Your screenshots, stories, group flights, laughter, excitement, feedback, and videos all became part of who we are. You did not just support our products. You helped build Got Friends.
To us, this was never just about airplanes. It was never just about code, art, or sound. It was about feeling. It was about adventure. It was about those unforgettable moments in the sky, the quiet landings, the rough gravel bars, the shared flights, the late nights in Discord, and the little moments that remind us why we fell in love with flight simulation in the first place.
We have always said we are simmers first, developers second, and we have always meant it. We have lived this with you, flown with you, laughed with you, and dreamed with you. So before anything else, thank you. Thank you for five years of trust, five years of friendship, and five years of allowing our young team to become part of something so much bigger than ourselves.
But every journey reaches a horizon, and today, we are here to share ours… The Taylorcraft BC-12D will be Got Friends’ final add-on for MSFS 2020.
That is not something we say lightly. MSFS 2020 was not just a platform to us. It was our proving ground. It was where Got Friends found its wings. It was where our ideas became real, and where our team had the chance to grow into what we are today. We owe this chapter everything.
But as we look ahead, we can feel the future calling. MSFS 2024 opens doors that push directly into the heart of who we are as creators. New technology, new systems, new possibilities, and new boundaries waiting to be broken. We are not going to pretend the road has been smooth. It has been challenging, frustrating, and at times uncertain. But if there is one thing you should know about Got Friends, it is that we are obsessed with pushing limits. We always have been.
To keep doing that, and to keep building with the freedom and ambition that drives this team, we know it is time to fully embrace what comes next. Still, we are not leaving MSFS 2020 quietly, and we are not leaving without one final love letter to the simulator that gave us our start.
The Taylorcraft is that love letter.
This is not just another aircraft. It is our final push into the limits of MSFS 2020, built with heart, gratitude, and everything we have learned over the last five years. As we near the end of beta, we are proud to say the Taylorcraft is approaching final. From there, our team will transition fully into MSFS 2024, while preparing to bring her to both simulators as a native release for each platform they support.
This aircraft represents some of the best work our team has ever done. Our best 3D modeling, our best sound work, our best flight dynamics, and our best coding. But more than any feature list, the Taylorcraft represents something deeper. It represents who we became during this era. It represents the standard we now hold ourselves to. And it stands as our final salute to the sim that made Got Friends possible.
So come with me on one final flight through the world of MSFS 2020. One final chapter before the next begins. One final aircraft built to honor everything this journey has meant.
This is Got Friends’ next add-on, and our final MSFS 2020 aircraft… The Taylorcraft BC-12D.
We were first in contact with Heavenbound Aviation while bringing our last aircraft, the Aeroprakt A-32 Vixxen, to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Through that partnership and close collaboration, we came to understand more of their history, their philosophy, and the way they train. Their students begin on a classic Taylorcraft, and that immediately resonated with us. We fell in love with the purity of that approach to pilot training. It is raw, fundamental, and built around proving yourself from the ground up, which felt deeply aligned with the spirit of Got Friends.
After many conversations and long nights, we made the decision to take a leap of faith and bring the Taylorcraft to life in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
During development, we supplemented our work with additional reference material from a private party within our community. That external reference aircraft, unrelated to Heavenbound Aviation or their fleet, was later lost in an accident. Moments like that are a reminder of how real these aircraft and the people behind them are, and they only reinforced our commitment to honoring them properly in the sim.
We are incredibly grateful that the pilots survived the crash, and that we had already gathered hundreds of reference photos and valuable material beforehand. Even so, the loss left us short-handed at a critical point in development. So we did what we do best. We turned back to the community. Before long, more Taylorcraft pilots from within our own circles stepped in to help, and just like that, the project found its wings again. Work resumed, and the journey continued.
Thousands of hours later, we are finally nearing the end of this recreation. As many of you already know, we have poured a huge amount of experimentation into this project. One of the biggest milestones along the way was the development of a new technology we call Reactive Motion. We fully coded a physics engine within MSFS that allows us to attach various aircraft parts to a custom motion layer, opening the door to behavior and interactions far beyond what was previously possible. If you would like to learn more about Reactive Motion and see it “in motion”, you can find additional information at the link below.
Today, we are proud to introduce another new technology that will become a Got Friends standard moving forward.
We call it Craft Pad.
Craft Pad is a fully universal system built to support any clipboard, notebook, or tablet-style interface across any aircraft. We first began laying the foundation for this idea in our LX Family Suite, which debuted in the AS 33 Me, but from the beginning, we knew this was something that needed to grow far beyond gliders.
Craft Pad gives users the ability to fully customize their aircraft around their own needs and preferences. In the Taylorcraft, that means more than 65+ customizable options spanning realism features, cockpit additions, dashboard customization, and of course, persistent settings that carry from flight to flight. We are extremely excited to unveil this tech and we can’t wait for you all to “Tailor your Taylor” to your needs.
Craft Pad will serve as the central hub of your new Taylorcraft, and we have designed it in a way that makes future implementation across other aircraft just as seamless. In many ways, this technology is only the beginning. It will also become the core foundation of our upcoming SuperGrravel (SuperCub), opening the door to hundreds of options ranging from interior and exterior customization to deeper aircraft configuration than ever before.
When Craft Pad is combined with MSFS 2024’s modular workflow, the possibilities become incredibly exciting. Want to swap your engine during preflight? Done. Want to completely change the layout and character of the dashboard? Easy. Want to replace the wings with something more aggressive and capable in the STOL environment? Absolutely. The flexibility offered by MSFS 2024 opens doors we simply could not ignore, and it became one of the biggest reasons for our team to move beyond the old simulator and fully embrace the new one.
And now, it is time to reveal some of the incredible features that make the Taylorcraft so special.
- Fully simulated hand-crank propeller physics featuring engine cylinder compression, drag resistance, authentic windmill starting, and optional quick-start methods.
- An authentic custom-designed soundpack that brings both the Continental A-65 and A-85 to life. Twoseventyinc has poured hundreds of hours into this soundpack and we think it will rival some of our best aircraft including the Wilga and F4F Wildcat.
- Two fully realized engine options, allowing you to fly with either 65 or 85 horsepower.
- Four unique variants, including Standard, Bush, Skis, and Floats.
- Reactive Motion physics brought to life across a wide range of components, including control surfaces, doors, engine elements, handles, landing gear, cockpit controls, and even fun extras like fuzzy dice.
- Craft Pad with over 65+ options, allowing you to truly make your Taylorcraft your own!
- Extensive realism features, including primer simulation, carb heat simulation, propeller crash simulation, fuel sloshing, camera physics, headphone simulation, and smoke generation.
- An enormous range of gauge and avionics options, including standard flight instruments, supporting gauges, an AOA indicator, GNS 430 by Working Title, GTN 650 by PMS50, GTN 650Xi by TDS, vintage radio, KAP 140 autopilot, ADF, transponder, and a tablet/EFB with Aera navigation and MSFS 2024 EFB support, plus more.
- A variety of extras to personalize your aircraft, including cargo options, a lantern, wing loads, a propeller spinner, and plenty of other fun goodies.
- Variant-specific features include custom float physics, water anchoring, paddle simulation, snow and ice behavior with skis, and ground-adjustable propeller pitch for the bush boys.
As we bring this chapter to a close, we just want to say thank you once again. Thank you for flying with us, supporting us, believing in us, and helping shape Got Friends into what it is today. The Taylorcraft is more than just our next release. It is a reflection of five years of passion, growth, risk, experimentation, and the incredible community that made all of it possible. It is our final love letter to MSFS 2020, and at the same time, the beginning of a bold new chapter for our team.
The Taylorcraft will be available in both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024, with a native MSFS 2024 version included in your purchase. When it arrives, the aircraft will be priced at $24.99 for both PC and Xbox with a free upgrade for Marketplace owners. We plan on distributing on the Got Friends Website, Contrail and the In-Game Marketplace.
From all of us at Got Friends, thank you for being part of this journey. We are incredibly proud of what this aircraft represents, and even more excited for what lies ahead. We hope the Taylorcraft earns a place in your hangar, and more importantly, in the memories you will make with it.
See you in the skies.
Soooooo, Elephant in the room time - when?
We are aiming for May, beta holds on track for a mid-month release. Anything can happen still and we are heavily monitoring beta testing.
So no date is set in stone yet.
Cheers!
Any chance that we will get a paintkit for the Stemme S-12G? I’ve been trying to get started with making a couple of liveries for FS2024 based on IRL ones but I keep getting hit with some sort of supercompression error when I try to open the KTX2 texture files
I have been excited for this plane since it was announced. Now I cannot WAIT to get my hands on it.
Looks excellent as usual! The Craft Pad looks awesome too! Cant wait! 
We are still working with Microsoft on the best approach to provide paint kits for our first party aircraft. Since we don’t hold those licenses, it’s something we have to do in collaboration with them.
However, as far as MSFS 2024 Livery creation, there is a great toolkit and tutorial available by EZRyder that will allow you to convert, edit, and create new textures for base aircraft.
Cheers!
the Taylorcraft will be available for 2020 and 2024 at same time or 2024 will follow after some time? About the free upgrade for in game marketplace means that if you buy It on 2020 you will get on 2024 for free? I left 2020 since 2024 come out.