The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 TECHNICAL Alpha is Live
Please note the TECHNICAL Alpha is an in-development build and not at all representative of the final product. The Technical Alpha build was created with the sole intent to gather telemetry and feedback on online services. The content available for the Technical Alpha is limited in scope. You may also encounter obvious crashes, bugs, and issues. Instructions on where to provide feedback will be shared with those selected to participate.
The first wave of invites for the Technical Alpha will soon begin rolling out to those selected to participate and should complete within the next hour. If you completed the Insider sign-up survey and were selected to participate, you will receive an e-mail with further instructions to your preferred contact e-mail address (collected during sign-up).
If you were not selected to participate (or complete the Insider sign-up survey after the Technical Alpha begins), we will send out a second wave of invites later today, with a third planned for this weekend (depending on space and availability). You can view more details on the Technical Alpha (or sign-up to participate) from our original announcement on the official Microsoft Flight Simulator website.
The Technical Alpha will end on Monday, October 14th at 12:00 AM PDT (0700 UTC).
We’d like to express our sincere thanks to all Technical Alpha participants. Your feedback is invaluable will be immensely helpful in creating the best version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024!
-The Microsoft Flight Simulator Team
TECHNICAL Alpha Notes
- All text is in English, and other languages are not available.
- Online multiplayer is not available.
- Game modes are limited to Discovery, Career, Challenges, and Free Flight.
- Career mode is limited to initial missions and the Flightseeing specialization.
- Challenges mode is limited to one option at a time.
- The Marketplace and Activities (tutorials, training, etc.) are not available.
- Aircraft are limited to a few options.
- The aircraft configurator is not available.
- Achievements are disabled.
- VR is not available.
We are also aware of the below known issues:
- You may encounter obvious crashes, bugs, and issues.
- Loading times may be significantly longer than expected, in particular on initial boot. While a progress bar is sometimes not shown, the sim will continue to load—please be patient.
- When completing different activities in succession (for example, completing a Challenge, then launching a Free Flight), you may lose controller input.
- Workaround: Restart the sim.
- Peripheral default mappings are missing (in most cases). Gamepad and mouse/keyboard will function by default. Most other peripherals must be mapped using custom settings.