Category: MSFS 2024
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MSFS 2024 Lands on PlayStation 5: Supported Joystick and Pedals
The arrival of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on the PlayStation 5 is big news for sim pilots long tied to PC-only hardware. Officially launching on December 8, 2025 (with Early Access from December 3 for Deluxe/Premium/Aviator editions) on PlayStation 5. For fans of global flight, cloud-streaming scenery and deeply detailed aircraft systems, the move to…
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Terrain, Turbulence, and Tight Margins: Ten Challenging Regional Airports
Landing at the world’s most dangerous regional airports requires pilots to carefully consider a combination of environmental, technical, and operational factors. Many of these airports, including Aspen-Pitkin (KASE) and Toncontín (MHTG), are situated in extreme terrain such as deep valleys, high mountains, or narrow atolls, which demand precise approach and departure paths. Pilots must account…
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Fly the World: Our 50 Favorite Scenic MSFS Screenshots
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 continues to be one of the most visually stunning experiences in gaming, and its community has taken full advantage of that. Over the past few months, players from around the world have been capturing breathtaking moments from their virtual flights — everything from serene sunrises over remote islands to intense approaches…
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Model Matching Masterclass: Choosing the Best Air Traffic Solution
As a real-world airline pilot, I often joke that flying a jet at Mach 0.78 across the North Atlantic can sometimes be less complex than configuring flight simulation software. We live in an era where simulators are so immersive that the difference between “believable” and “make-believe” often comes down to what aircraft you see taxiing…
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⭐ Optimization Guide: Performance Boost Tricks for MSFS
This article will be updated regularly as new tricks to improve MSFS 2024 (and 2020) performance are discovered, so stay tuned. Recent new tricks were added on Thursday, October 16, 2025, and are marked with the ⚠️ icon. Applying various tricks and tweaks to Windows 11 (and 10), as well as to Microsoft Flight Simulator…
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Inside the Developer Stream: Roadmap, Features, and Future of MSFS
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Developer Stream has become a cornerstone of the simulator’s community-facing communications. For long-time simmers and newcomers alike it’s the place where the team behind the sim — Microsoft and Asobo Studio — step outside the studio walls and talk directly to the players: showing roadmaps, explaining technical choices, answering community questions, and…
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Testing Sim Update 4 Beta: Bug Fixes, Visual Improvements, and Road to Launch
Sim Updates in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, aka MSFS 2024, are the mechanism Asobo uses to deliver engine-level fixes, performance work, and simulator-wide features (separate from Marketplace aircraft/scenery updates). Sim Update 4, aka SU4, is being positioned as another stability, visuals and quality-of-life update — an important one because it targets persistent issues and adds…
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Flying the Forecast: How MSFS Recreates the World’s Weather
Weather is the single biggest variable that makes Microsoft Flight Simulator feel like the real world. Clouds, wind shear, sudden thunderstorms, and subtle surface winds turn a textbook approach into a real challenge — and behind that illusion in MSFS sits a partnership: Asobo/Microsoft use Meteoblue’s forecast and analysis systems to populate the sim with…
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VATSIM or IVAO: Real-World Pilot’s Deep Dive
When I first discovered online flight simulation networks, my sim experience changed forever. Suddenly, I wasn’t flying through a sterile, empty world anymore — I was sharing the sky with hundreds of other pilots and live air traffic controllers. I was listening to real phraseology, following real clearances, waiting in virtual holds, and dealing with…
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Flying Smooth or Stuttering: MSFS 2024 Ready to Replace 2020?
Don’t forget to study one of our most-read article, Performance Boost Tricks for MSFS, to make your flying much smoother. Every pilot knows the truth: airplanes live and die by reliability. I’ve flown across oceans in heavy jets, through unpredictable weather systems, and into congested airspaces where every detail matters. In those environments, you don’t want…
