RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 7 - Beta 2 - 1.9.120
If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior.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.
NOTE: Content downloads were disabled in the initial SU7 flighting builds (1.9.10.0 and 1.9.12.0) due to an unintended change that will be fixed in the next SU7 flighting update.
NOTE: The “Look Around” feature was mistakenly enabled in the initial SU7 flighting build, but is still in active development and will be disabled in SU7 flighting moving forward. This feature will not release with SU7.
New Content and Features
National Championship Air Races
National Championship Air Races (NCAR) pylon races are available to preview in 1.9.12.0, while STOL races will become available in an SU7 flighting update in the coming weeks. Please note NCAR is still a work-in-progress and will be unstable in certain scenarios.
Check the Known Issues section below for more information on what to expect. We will continue to make improvements to NCAR throughout SU7 flighting, but are eager to gather feedback on the current experience. Thank you for checking out NCAR and we look forward to your feedback!
To access the National Championship Air Races mode, on the title menu, select Activities > National Championship Air Races.
- Added virtual keyboard for sliders on console when pressing validate on a line with a slider associated with a text input
Stability & Performance
NOTE: We are continuing to monitor telemetry and feedback from the initial SU7 flighting build, and are aware of regressions in both stability and performance from SU6.1 across all platforms. Fixes and optimizations to address these issues are coming in future SU7 flighting updates.
- Fixed a memory leak in the visual transition, causing visual degradation after long flights.
Aircraft
Aero Vodochody L39
- Fixed missing pink textures in default passive variation
- Fixed cockpit lod issues for Red Thunder variation
Aviat Pitts Special S1S
- Fixed missing exhaust fx for all variations
- Fixed exhaust fx direction for default version
- Fixed preflight elements pivots points for default variation
- Split pitot covers, chocks and tie-downs nodes to be usable for preflight for default variation
Boeing 737 MAX 8
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
North American Aviation P-51 Mustang
- Fixed cockpit collision SpamCan variation
- Fixed cockpit collision for MrsVirginia variation
- Fixed cockpit collision for Bunny variation
- Fixed visual bug caused by the wings and fuselage models interpenetrating for default variation
- Fixed unnatural shadows for default variation (shading issues caused by frost material casting shadow when it should not)
- Fixed wheels textures flickering on all variations
Boeing T-6 Texan
- Fixed drone collision material ID in SixCat variation
Glass Cockpits
Garmin G1000 NXI
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Garmin G3000 / G5000
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Garmin G3X Touch
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Garmin GNS 430/GNS 530
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Primus Epic 2.0 Integrated Avionics System
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
- Fixed an issue where destination and alternate airport predictions were not displayed correctly on the FMC PROGRESS page.
UNS-1Ew SBAS-Flight Management System
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
- Fixed an issue where flight path calculations could generate incorrect turn anticipation for certain UNS configurations.
Avidyne IFD550/IFD540
- Fixed an issue where the lateral flight path was sometimes calculated incorrectly at flyover waypoints.
Flight System
NavData
- Added the new items for the navigation data.
- Added support for defining 3-letter IATA codes on airports.
- Added support for additional procedure fix type flags - ATC reporting point, essential waypoint, initial departure fix, and stepdown fix.
- Added support for holding patterns defined on waypoints - terminal or enroute.
EFB
- Added new Ground Services EFB app.
Aircraft Gameplay
ATC
- Fixed ATC dialogs sometimes overlapping each other
Career
- Fix the door of a commercial airliner that won’t close after boarding.
- Fix ATC shortcuts no longer work ,when player skip to taxi before acknowledging the IFR clearance.
- Fixed “Enter runway” sometime appears during the initial climb.
- Fix the issue where passenger dialogs overlap with ATC communications.
- Added new missions filters on the worldmap career.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed flightseeing’s point of interest name being hidden after a back on track
Airports
- Fixed asphalt dirt rendering when Ground materials ML and Fallback are disabled
Generic Airports
- Fixed SCIR terraforming issue
Traffic
Marine Traffic
- Added Live Marine Traffic in Career and Discovery mode.
Activities
Low Altitude Challenges
- Fixed missing aircraft in Selenice Low Altitude challenge
National Championship Air Races
- Loading screens and transition are now working properly in virtual reality.
- Added new voice lines for Roswell lobby
- Fixed tailwheel on ground not detected
- Fixed “Missed gate” notification during turnaround
- Added STOL in solo mode
- Fixed transition to reward screen never ending
- Updated solo pylon races files
- Updated pylon races solo flow
Known Issues:
- With a brand-new account, joining a National Championship Air Races (NCAR) lobby before initiating and loading in to any other activity (ie. Free Flight, Career, World Photographer, etc.) will cause the sim to crash. This only reproduces on the first attempt.
- The sim may crash on the results screen after the qualification race.
- When the host leaves an NCAR race in-progress, all other aircraft abruptly pop onto the ground.
- Wear and tear animation feedback is not functional.
- The propwash effect is not triggered on other aircraft during the race.
- When in the lobby, changes made to difficulty settings by guests are not saved.
- When using a controller in spectator mode, the view can’t be switched.
- Weather settings reset when confirming race settings.
- VR—Users can see around loading screens and letterboxing at the start of NCAR races.
- VR—Other racers may not appear in NCAR when in VR (including PSVR2).
- PS5—Joining an NCAR game group from the PlayStation dashboard may cause the joining player to enter an empty lobby.
- Xbox—Accepting an invite to an NCAR lobby while currently in Free Flight results in an error message.
DevMode
General
- Added CIVA INS Sim Attachment.
- Added UNS-1Lw Sim Attachment.
Project Editor
- Saved “Asynchronous package build” in user settings
- Reduced package build time due to bitmap reloading
Scenery Editor
- Fixed rotation of a group of polygons/polylines
- Fixed exclusion rectangle update
- Added a tool in airport properties to generate taxi lights.
- Added the ability to inflate apron.
- Fixed missing display name for Light Rows.
SDK
SimConnect
- Added support for waypoint holding patterns and additional fix types on procedure legs to the facilities API.
- Fixed wrong checks on devices when calling SimConnect_MapInputEventToClientEvent (was causing crashes when mapping mouse actions while none was connected on Xbox)
JS API
- Added support for waypoint holding patterns and additional fix types on procedure legs to the facility listener.
Tools
- Added new blender lod tools: enables real-time LOD preview and screen size authoring directly in the Blender viewport.
Exporter Blender
- Adjusted the preset hierarchy UI for better readability. Presets can now be renamed by double-clicking their name or using the new Rename option in the right-click context menu.
- Items in the exporter list now have a colored icon. The color can be set using the right-click context menu.
- Outliner collection colors are now also visible in the Preset Edit Layers window.
- Added a partially checked state to all list views. An item is now displayed as partially checked when some of its children are checked.
- Added a unique ID pre-export checker. Warns users when objects have no unique ID or when multiple objects share the same ID
- Added standalone texture library generation. Available in MFS2024 Menu > Set Image Flags > Generate Texture Lib.
- Drastically reduced texture copy and texture lib export times — from 70s to 15s on the DA62 left engine, for example.
Documentation
- New cockpit.cfg parameters added:
hud_show_anti_detonation,hud_show_spray_bar,hud_show_cooling_flaps. - New SimVars added:
OIL COOLING FLAPS POSITION,RADIATOR COOLING FLAPS - Fix for downloads not working in the offline documentation.
- Fix for offline documentation issues when working with search links and downloads.
- SimVars: Updated NAV section of the Aircraft Navigation SimVars page.
- Blender: Texture flag tool updated documentation.
- Fixed erroneous information about marketplace submissions allowing video uploads (it’s currently not supported).
- New simvars added:
WEAR AND TEAR OVERSTRESS FACTOR,WEAR AND TEAR OVERSTRESS DAMAGE RATE - New
autopilot_resets_trim_when_not_usedadded to system.cfg information. - Update to skydiving documentation to include information on the unbound light key events.
- Liquid dropping system page has been updated to remove the required flag for the
Door.N“name” key. - References to “PILOT” node in default nav-graph information changed to “PILOT_SEAT”.
- New parameter
reverser_fail_modeadded to the engines.cfg page.