Release Notes - SU6 Beta 1.8.5.0 - July 6, 2026

SeedyL3205 · July 6, 2026, 5:15pm

RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 Beta - 1.8.5.0

If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.

If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.

New Content and Features

Overhauled the visual of the reward screen in world photographer
A notification is now displayed when a logbook entry is added to the logbook while in freeflight
Added lights on generic airports, other improvements will happen in SU6.
Following community feedback, we added an option to start flight without walkaround, in “Free Flight” game mode. Find this new option in the assistance settings.
Added the tooltip to the buttons of the toolbar when they are hovered

Stability & Performance

Fixed an issue where on rare occasions going in the World Photographer menu would soft lock the game.

General Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where users that weren’t group leaders could modify their own local weather by opening the weather panel causing a desync with the whole group
The order of the online settings is now consistent between platforms.
Fixed an issue where changing the cockpit interaction system on consoles would not properly save the setting.
Fixed an issue where changing the frequency of the ATC using the buttons present on the cockpit would not correctly update the ATC panel
Fixed the data in the fuel and payload and the EFB were not the same in the plane customizations
Fixed Taxi Ribbon sometimes cutting straight through the airport and over the grass
Fixed an issue where changing the text size of the game while a panel was opened in panel could make some panels appear to be cut off.
Fixed an issue where subtitles could be cut off noticeably earlier than the voice over in certain conditions
Fixed an issue where subtitles could be too fast to be readable in certain conditions
Fixed an issue where moving the rolling cache location on the hard drive would not delete the relevant file in the old location properly
Fixed wrong font chosen to render text on adaptive livery
Fixed an issue where it was impossible to hide cloud weathers in Free Flight when not in live weather
Fixed an issue where clicking on “Remove friend” or “Kick from group” in the social panel would not correctly close the relevant context menu
Fixed an issue where an incorrect redirection could happen when ending a training in career and going into the training activities
In live activity, departure and arrival are now sorted by time (Departures are sorted by departure time while arrivals are sorted by arrival time)
Fixed overlapping company names for Charter Service - VIP by adding a marquee to properly display long strings.
Fixed aviator performance tags overflowing progress and gap values when new lines were added, causing incorrect vertical alignment.
Fixed an issue where the “Live” button was selectable when the “Live Weather option” was off in the online settings
Fixed a small visual issue where the toggle elements could have the wrong style when clicking
Fixed an issue where the selected aircraft statistics could be wrong after changing the unit of measurement in the options and not selecting another aircraft
Fixed an issue where the language of in-game POIs were not properly updated when changing language until rebooting the game
Fixed an issue where some world location were not searchable in rare cases
Fixed wrong offset on vfx particule during one frame when emitter is moving
Fixed visibility data not displayed correctly in Free Flight when showing flight plan with live weather
Fixed company title height being too small, causing text to be cut off.
Added visual feedback on dropdown menus
Fixed an issue where some waypoints could be displayed when configuring an aircraft in the hangar
Fixed an issue where the displayed fuel consumption in the aircraft selection was not following the unit of measurement in the setting menu
Fixed aircraft name not re-translating when changing language in free flight page
Fixed issue where some actions such as KEY_RUDDER_AXIS_MINUS or PLUS would get stuck in position if a combo was pressed at the same time
Fixed mouse deadzone being too high
Fixed TOW_PLANE_REQUEST key event always spawning a winch regardless of the selected launch method
Fixed inaccurate cloud ceiling displayed on airport departure and arrival cards
Fixed favorite aircraft names overflowing their container by adding a marquee for long text.
Fixed an issue where city names disappeared after certain actions
Fixed Taxi Ribbon displayed before announcing taxi
Fixed an issue where some POI markers were not using the selected language
Legacy fauna POIs are no longer searchable on the world map as these were not matching with the new global fauna system
Fixed Taxi Ribbon sometimes leading to the wrong hold short line
Fixed an issue where in game panels could blink in certain conditions
Fixed Taxi Ribbon sometimes taking long detours when taxiing to a parking spot or to the start of a runway

Install, Performance & Graphics

Added DLSS 4.5 support (used as default native upscaler), and Dynamic Frame Generation with ingame VSync support.
Improved Texture/LoD popping inside the cockpit
Fixed Raymarched Shadows at far distance
Added FSR4 support.
- Please note that, from now, in the settings, you only chose to use the AMD FSR or not. Which version will be used is set by your GPU driver.

Backwards Compatibility Bug Fixes

Fixed blurry secondary aerials in certain areas.

Aircraft

Fixed an issue that caused some cockpit interaction to have a reduced hitbox.
Fixed an issue causing the fuel lines of the 172, AT802, DA62, and E330 to be oversized, causing the aircraft to take longer than it should to shut down once running out of fuel.
Fixed an issue causing the AS21 Transponder SimAttachment to be too dark at night
Prevented the G-Force LOC effect and structural damage crash due to speed from triggering when in active pause.

Airbus Helicopters H125

Fixed an issue causing a few warning lights to be active after an autostart
Fixed an issue preventing the H125’s collective to be operated with the mouse while in VR

Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Fixed display of an empty “Not categorized” main category in the control settings

Cessna 172 Skyhawk (G1000)

Fixed display of an empty “Not categorized” main category in the control settings.

Aircraft Core Systems

Extended the maximum range to receive NAV radios to allow extended range stations.
Fixed increasing error in glideslope deviation calculation when getting closer to the runway.

Electricity system

Improved system update for better loops and alternative paths detection, allowing a better load sharing among buses. Version 2.3 and up required.
Add new property to buses in runtime graph: is conducting electricity
Add tension going through lines, displayed in the electrical debug window and electrical system runtime graph.
Fixed transformers creating tension from 0V. Now a tension dropped by a component on a line to 0V will remain at 0. Version 2.3 and up required.
Added a text indicating the version of the system loaded in the sim in the debug window menu bar.
Added localvars to numerical values possibilities in cfg param definitions (in addition to simvars and globalvars).
Fixed batteries charge c rate not being initialized with a default value when parsing a cfg and none is given. Version 2.3 and up required.

Hydraulic System

Addition of Actuator parameter “DropPressure” to specify under which pressure actuator cannot move at all. When not set in the cfg, defaults to zero on hydraulics version 1, and to 10% of actuator MinimalPressure on the newly created version 2 (specified in the cfg hydraulics EX1 section).
This prevent actuators from moving only using the 14psi of ambient pressure, which should clearly not be possible, without breaking retro compatibility thanks to the new version.
Added settable behavior for simvars SIMVAR_HYDRAULIC_PTU_ACTIVE and SIMVAR_HYDRAULIC_PTU_DIRECTION.

Pneumatic & ECS System

Changed Outflow Valve behavior from managing cabin pressures to managing cabin alt rates, allowing it to restrict (as much as it can) the cabin climb. Change is Opt-In behind Pneumatics Version 2.
Separated Pack logic from Engine bleed logic. Addition of settable SimVar PNEUMATICS_ENGINE_BLEED_FLOW_RATIO to get and control engine bleed.
Added Pneumatics Version 2. In Version 2 Electric valves turn on and off their respective electric circuit on their own.

Glass Cockpits

Garmin G3000 / G5000

Updated the layout of the GTC Weather Radar Settings page to match newer software loads of the real G3000.
Weather radar automatic stabilization is now disabled if attitude data are not available from AHRS.
Fixed an issue with the GTC Initialization page where the Button Bar scroll buttons did not scroll the initialization tasks list.
Added the ability to control weather radar tilt and bearing (if the airplane is configured with a weather radar).

Garmin GNS 430/GNS 530

The manual screen backlight setting can no longer be adjusted below zero.
Fixed an issue where the dialog to change the screen backlight mode in the GNS 530 AUX display page was not visible.
Fixed an issue where the manual screen backlight setting did not work for configurations with more than one GNS 530 unit or more than one GNS 430 unit.

Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System

Fixed multiple issues where sending a flight plan to avionics from the EFB could result in an incomplete route.

UNS-1Ew SBAS-Flight Management System

LNAV CDI Scale value is now computed and published.
Added glidepath support to the UNS by implementing a new glidepath computer.
Load the default roll and pitch modes from simvars (and therefore [AUTOPILOT] default_bank_mode and default_pitch_mode).
Enabled look ahead turn anticipation for better turn tracking.

Avidyne IFD550/IFD540

Load the default roll and pitch modes from simvars (and therefore [AUTOPILOT] default_bank_mode and default_pitch_mode).
Fixed an issue where the terrain awareness overlay could briefly move with the map while panning instead of staying anchored to the aircraft position.

Physics

Fixed cloud updrafts sometimes happening while misaligned with visible clouds (wrong wind based offset computation).

Flight System

CFD simulation

Added maximum draw distance for wake turbulence displays to improve draw performance.
Thermals airflow visualization now also displays downdrafts including mountain Foehn.

NavData

Aligned ILS localizers and glideslopes with runways when they are not intentionally offset.
Added threshold crossing height for glideslope.
Added GBAS/SBAS path points and GLS facilities (but not yet GLS approaches).
Added boundary designation (short name), and comm frequency sector bearing/altitude/distance restrictions.
Added LPV200 flag for approach navigation data.

EFB

Fixed the value of “is post boarding”. It was retrieving the values of all cabin services while it
should only get the one of the passenger boarding service
Fixed the slider was still interactable while the deviation limit was 0
Fixed the weather TAF did not correctly display the evolution of data over time, specifically after baseline changes (BECMG and FM)
Fixed an issue where the EFB could flicker continuously when changing the windowed screen resolution

Minimap

Fixed the drag was not stopping when you the mouse left the minimap

Aircraft Gameplay

External HUD

Fixed an issue that caused the battery HUD element not to actually show the battery’s remaining capacity.

Career

Added location info in all companies fleet overview
Added a button in the briefing page to display the information of the departure or arrival runway in the EFB

General Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the skipping step could be unnecessarily greyed out in career mode

World

Fixed “force active lod” not working correctly with instanced models. Fixed rare blinking issue with instanced models.

Airports

Fixed painted line glitching above ~11’000 elements
Removed some trees that are too close to the runway

Generic Airports

Fixed difference between taxiway and runway lights

Vegetation

Improved Normal Map of Pinus Sylvestris, Pinus Pinaster and Artemisia Tridentata

Virtual Reality

Fixed an issue where the player view would move before the fade out when exiting pause and the photo mode in virtual reality
PSVR2: Further improvements to the graphics pipeline, leading to a better resolution at the center of the field of vision, better performances, and lower memory cost.
PSVR2: Fixed Night Vision effect
Added a smoothing effect when releasing the “Grab yoke” VR controllers interaction.
Modified VR Controllers default mapping :
Changed “TAKE CONTROL OF CHARACTER” and “PHOTO MODE TOGGLE” to [Trigger + Squeeze + Bottom/Top buttons] respectively
Added “Cockpit Interaction Increase/Decrease” to [Squeeze + Top/Bottom buttons]
These new actions will be useful if you have to interact with any system that is too sensitive to motion controls
Fixed an issue where a missing term was in the “No recenter binding” popup in VR when the “Recenter VR” binding was unbound.
Removed 25% OutDeadzone on some VR Controllers sticks
Fixed aggressive trees LoD transition
Improved Raymarched Shadows in foveated Region (which removes disturbing outline around objects)
PSVR2: Improved the quality of the clouds.
Fixed Quad View resolution scaling.

Controls

Fixed inverted behaviour for “DISPLAY VISUAL ASSISTANCES OFF” and “DISPLAY VISUAL ASSITANCES ON”
Renamed eye and head trackers actions, they now start with “EYE/HEAD TRACKING”. Also changed description.
Fixed DECREASE THROTTLE (SMALL) being hidden inside control settings

Peripherals

On PlayStation, added support for the Thrustmaster SDK.

Peripherals

Various Peripheral Fixes

Fixed inverted axis for Photo Mode Rotation Z on gamepad

Activities

Red Bull Races

Fixed the warning sound when going out of bound in Red Bull during practice mode was not accelerating

World Photographer

Fixed an issue where the world photographer panel was not updating after a picture was taken and validated
Fixed an issue where the animations on the world photographer stars would play even when it wasn’t necessary
Fixed an issue where after taking a picture, the collection page would not properly refresh the order of the collections to display the most completed one first until going back to the main menu

Audio

Fixed an issue causing some sounds to be repeated when the emitting instrument is out of the view frustum.

DevMode

Fixed VFS Browser listing less files than the VFS Projector
Added a new “Legacy vs Modern Aerodynamics” Debug sub-window within the “Debug Aircraft Legacy” Debug window (also accessible via “DebugAircraftLegacyVsModernAerodynamics” console command) for detailed and accurate comparison of aerodynamic force and moment between Legacy and Modern FMs (for airplanes and gliders only).
Removed the console command “DebugAircraftSimLegacyForces”. This command visualized the total force computed by Modern FM (which could be incorrect depending on the active FM setting) instead of the total force computed by Legacy FM.
Removed the console command “DebugAircraftSimDimensions” and the corresponding DevMode window “Debug/Aircraft/Sim Dimensions”. The tool relied on legacy visualization of aircraft geometry based on simplified primitives and a Legacy vs Modern FM comparison that did not accurately represent force and moment differences and could lead to misleading interpretation of debug data.
Fixed SPB Compiler not flagging some XML errors in source files (could lead to corrupted SPBs and crashes in the sim)

General

Prevent switching to dev cam while game is in teleport state to avoid camera issues
Changed the way we compute mouse coordinate while using Smart Docking System option. This fixes some mouse interaction issues with mouse related debugs.
Renamed “Flight Plan” section of Debug menu to “Flights”
Added new Travel book debug in the Flights section of the Debug menu
Properly disable developer camera when enabling slew mode to avoid confusion in the menu
Added bounding sphere column in SimObject Statistics / Live Stats
Removed duplicated “Show/Hide GUI” button from Video capture tool
Added missing layout images from input samples
Fixed possible crash when deleting an asset group currently used in an editor
Fixed glass sometime being invisible when taking a screenshot from the devmode menu
Added WASM memory max usage in SimObject Profiler
Added more stats in the SimObject Profiler
Added a button to profile any SimObject in the SimObject Spawner
Added combobox to select a STR in replacedb editor from Input tab in SimObject Editor
Added combobox for tag field in Input Profiles Editor
Added indicator for input action type override in Input Profiles Editor
Added helper dialog to display the LOD curves
Fixed blurry textures in some cases, like rolling numbers on aircraft instruments
Fixed sounds played at the incorrect position when using different simvarsounds using the same wwise event and different attach nodes
Added a tool to profile airports
Removed debug option Debug Procedural Generation that does nothing
Added new stats to the SimObject Profiler
Fixed Reset Settings not correctly resetting all devmode settings
Fixed empty Device Keys dialog with the Input Profiles Editor
Fixed possible crash while building a package with the Aircraft Capture Tool open
Developer camera: Fixed an issue with zooming and mouse input.
Fixed user light tool no more usable with encrypted packages
Fixed leaving Aircraft Capture Tool only restoring maximized window state and not fullscreen state
Reworked package reorder tool to be more intuitive and easier to use (rework visual feedbacks, allow reorder inside sections, drag and drop).
Added better feedback when building a cfg with parsing errors
BglExplorer: Added debug for scenery objects flags
Removed some irrelevant options from the Devmode Debug menu.

Navigation Graph Editor

Fixed NavGraph links not saving properly
Added ProjectOnGround and ModelNode handling in the editor

Project Editor

Added package order hint for Custom travel books
Optimized package validator, now at least 3 times faster.
Added “Asynchronous package build” option in the Project Editor settings.
Fixed freeze when building packages. Added a progress bar.
Fixed suggested dimensions for Content Manager Thumbnail (was 412x170, now 360x240)
Fixed crash when building outdated packages while closing project

Scenery Editor

Fixed objects list not always up to date with modellibs.
Faster update for airports with numerous taxipoints
Renamed “Importer from APX” to “Airport XML importer” and fixed crashes.
Added parking light object.
Added new option “ParkingLightMesh” in airport archetype.
More precise position for rectangles and polygons in BGL (30cm to 1mm)
Added new option to allow polygon vegetation override to use TIN tree spawn algorithm
Removed broken option to move selection up/down in the scene tree. Use drag and drop instead
It’s now possible for a polygon to render material and override vegetation/secondary heightmap at the same time.
Rectangle object: prevent profile creation when heightmap is used and vice-versa.
Improved vegetation polygon precision.
Fixed unwanted rotation upon adding object in SPC edition.
Fixed some characters in object names causing BGL compilation errors
Fixed light presets rendering issue when the light is rotated.
The “Show light direction” debug is now shown for each light row vertices.
Reduced falloff distance when adding an heightmap to a rectangle.
Improved heightmap gird rendering.
Fixed textured polygons affecting ground materials on a large aera (incorrect mip generation for SurfaceTypeMerge).
Fixed not being able to pan on Worldmap while Scenery Editor is opened
Better TIN terraforming (tesselate the TIN geometry when needed)
Support "no snow " and “no decal” with instancing.
Fixed “NoDecal” not working for some models.
Fixed single trees using wrong species in some case
Fixed viewport rectangle selection taking groups into account
Auto expand relevant header in polygon properties

SimObject Editor

Added new properties to relays in runtime graph: powered, managed line, managed line state (disconnected, disconnected by relay, fully connected)
Added new properties to generators and external powers in runtime graph: the supplier is powering consumers or not, number of powered consumers
Made some batteries properties read only as they were always overwritten by the system.
Fixed duplicate property remaining capacity
Added new properties to show in runtime graph: average tension, average load, the battery is powering consumers or not, number of powered consumers
[Added “on and powered” state for circuits, indicating that the circuit has been switched on and receives enough tension to function
Added runtime information on lines in the electrical system graph relative to their connection state (switch, breaker, relay)
Fixed electrical relays not having data in system editor runtime graph
Removed the Inputs tab and move everything it contained to the Input Profiles Editor
Fixed section specialization from livery.cfg not up to date
Added condition for hydraulics lines so Valves and Accumulator can’t be empty
Removed duplicated fields LiquidCapacity and LiquidConsumption
Fixed edit in place incorrectly saving file with empty sections
Removed some unused WearAndTearCollission parameters in systems.cfg tab
Added missing InertialSeparatorOnTorque parameter
Added an option in the context menu to give custom name to section or param for a specific package
Fixed issue with reload option with a modified asset
Added hydraulics system minor version 2
Added versions and modifier_local_angle_scalar fields in flight_model
Fixed impossible to click delete or rename menu option when a livery node is selected
Fixed missing prop_betathreshold params
Fixed high_n1/n2 maximum set to 100%
Fixed possible issue with file not correctly saved for merged sections
Fixed impossible to select any container in the User Light Tool
Fixed hydraulics line valves and accumulator value making errors in the systems when empty

Visual Effects Editor

Fixed crash upon erasing comment block
Fixed double clicking on a node without world position moving developer camera

SDK

Added frequency name and type to the facility explorer.
Fixed a bug that caused the BGL compiler to add holding patterns to multiple airports rather than just the intended one.
Restored KEY_PAUSE_TOGGLE key event
Enabled KEY_PAUSE_ON and KEY_PAUSE_OFF is every context

SimConnect

Add support for mouse events in SimConnect with the MapInputEventToClientEvent function.

SimVars

Added simvar ELEVATOR TRIM PCT EX2. This simvar returns the trim level in percent, with the -100%->0% range being used for the down trim while 0%->100% is used only for the up trim. This means that setting 0 trim will also result in that simvar returning 0%.
Used that simvar in the HUD display for trim, which fixes some errors which caused the HUD to display the trim at 100% before it actually reached the max in cases of asymmetric trim.
Also added a way to specify that the ASOBO_Elevator_Trim_Settings_Config should use that simvar (opt-in) by setting the parameter USE_EX2_SIMVAR to true.
Added some simvars to allow the Baro Setting to be retrieved even in STD mode
Added a cfg param to allow the AP Heading to maintain current rotation direction.
Added the FREEWHEELING_UNIT_ENGAGED SimVar, which controls whether each helicopter engine transmits torque to the rotor system. See SDK for details.

WASM API

Fixed terrain visible in weather radar top view after max radar range (250km), now the no rain color is rendered
Fixed gradient not rendered correctly when alpha < 1

JS API

Added runway lighting information.
Added a route index that allows looking up routes by name.

Exporter 3DSMAX

Fixed initialize Wiper Mask Tool

Exporter Blender

Fixed incorrect texture color space when the same texture is used in both sRGB and Non-Color inputs.
Support export of linked materials.

Documentation

Hydraulics documentation (Pumps and Actuators) has had a few parameter description updates to fix wrong information.
All mention of “UVmap2” for Blender has been removed from the documentation, as both Blender and 3DS Max now both use “UV2” references.
Obsolete “Lod Curve” option removed from the Options menu documentation.
New “Version” number added to Hydraulic system documentation, and hydraulic actuator documentation updated with new “DropPressure” map entry (and improved key descriptions).
Helipad scenery object page updated with additional information on taxiway point setup.
The “Creating Or Replacing An Airport” tutorial page has been refreshed to bring it in line with the current DevMode status.
SimConnect: Fixed SIMCONNECT_RECV_EXCEPTION documentation to show correct “unknown” examples.
Update to the Tools > Package Reorder Tool section to reflect minor changes to the tool window and workflow.
WASM documentation has been updated to include new “update” callbacks (see the “Update Callbacks” page in the Programming APIs > WebAssembly section).
Added additional details to the froude_krylov_scalar in the flight_model.cfg documentation.
New section added to FLT Information page to explain custom content mission ordering in the UI. Accompanying “difficulty” parameter has been added to the FLT File Properties page as well.