It’s time for another screenshot challenge! The idea is to collectively explore different parts of the world together - areas that may be very familiar to you or perhaps a new place you have never flown before. Feel free to find others to fly with to capture the challenge, or go solo!
Last week’s winner from Close Call: ARROW2929 (X) - Congrats on winning for twek weeks running!
This Week’s Challenge: City Update 13 - California
With this week’s release of the first free City Update of 2026, we’re challenging you to capture your best in-sim screenshots whilst exploring the newly updated cities across the state of California, USA! This update is available for both Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 players on all platforms. You can find out more details here!
Please note we have introduced a new rule, whereby we will not be choosing screenshots that have been altered/enhanced by AI tools as winners for these screenshot challenges.
Rules
- Any time of day
- Any type of weather
- Code of Conduct appropriate liveries (avoid licensed airline liveries if possible)
- Default aircraft and scenery, or aircraft and scenery from the MSFS Marketplace
- Up to 10 entries (screenshots) allowed
- Avoid heavy digital editing or use of filters. Minor editing and touch-ups are allowed.
- Any images that have been altered/enhanced by AI are not permitted.
The rest is fair game! Use your creativity! We will pick the top 11 shots. 1 will be featured as the main photo of the next weekly briefing, and the other 10 will be featured in the community section.
You may also add a watermark or username to your image if you wish.
How To Submit Your Screenshot
Just post them below here in this thread, or if you’re on X you can post your photo with the #MSFSchallenge hashtag. We’ve also introduced a new way of entering via the official MSFS Discord Server. A new thread will appear each week in the “IMAGES” category, where you can also submit your entries.
Note: For the week the challenge is active, this thread is for screenshot submissions and challenge clarification only. Casual conversation about image submissions is allowed after the weekly challenge has ended. Thank you!
