Our next Developer Livestream now has a scheduled date! Join the regular panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial plus special guests on Wednesday, April 15 at 10:30am Pacific time (1730 UTC) for a discussion about future development of MSFS and answers to many questions from the community. Thank you to everyone who pre-submitted questions over the past few weeks; we are currently collating all your submissions and preparing responses to the most frequently asked questions. Also, if you missed the opportunity to submit a question in advance, you can still ask a question to the panel live during the broadcast via Twitch chat. Be sure to follow our official Twitch channel[twitch.tv] if you’re not already so you’ll receive a notification when the broadcast starts.

The dev team remains hard at work on Sim Update 5 with a release target planned for later this month. As always, we caution that this is a target only and not a locked-in promise. We will not launch SU5 until we are confident it is in a great state and will be well-received by simmers on all platforms. SU5 will include hundreds of bug fixes and other improvements and also introduce the highly-anticipated PSVR2 feature for Sony PlayStation 5 users.

Public beta testing for SU5 remains ongoing with Monday’s release of the 1.7.17.0 test build. In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for this build on our forums here[forums.flightsimulator.com]. Also, for those participating in the beta, please be sure to vote in our forum surveys here[forums.flightsimulator.com].

As a reminder from last week, the Marketplace Spring Sale is on now[www.flightsimulator.com]! Enjoy big savings on thousands of add-on products for both Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. If you’ve had your eye on a specific add-on or just want to go impulse shopping for your next favorite aircraft, airport, scenery, or mission pack, don’t miss out on these savings!

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020): For 13 Days starting on April 2nd, save up to 85% on more than 4300 items.

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: For 13 Days starting on April 2nd, save up to 80% on more than 1000 items.

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The entire Microsoft Flight Simulator Team wishes godspeed to the crew of Artemis II on their historic space flight to the moon! We know many of you watched the launch yesterday, and if you’re interested in celebrating this mission some more, be sure to join our Community Fly-In Friday group flight this week as we visit Kennedy Space Center in the sim. See the Community section below for more information.

We also want to give a big congratulations to our friends at iniBuilds on the release of their TriStar Airliner add-on this week[www.flightsimulator.com]! Available exclusively from the in-sim Marketplace for USD $49.99, MSFS 2024 pilots can now live their dreams of flying this classic trijet that harkens back to the 1970s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbB_FQoaWtg

Public pre-release testing for Sim Update 5 continues with test build 1.7.16.0 being made available late last week to those enrolled in the optional beta. You can read the full release notes for this build on our forums here[forums.flightsimulator.com].

As a reminder from last Thursday’s Weekly Briefing, the next Developer Livestream will be coming up sometime in April (exact date is still TBD). If you would like to pre-submit a question to the panel in advance, you can do so by completing this web form[forms.microsoft.com]. Be sure to follow our official Twitch channel[twitch.tv] if you’re not already so you’ll receive a notification whenever we start a public broadcast.

Last but not least, the Marketplace Spring Sale is on now[www.flightsimulator.com]! Enjoy big savings on thousands of add-on products for the next 13 days. If you’ve had your eye on a specific add-on or just want to go impulse shopping for your next favorite aircraft, airport, scenery, or mission pack, don’t miss out on these savings!

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020): For 13 Days starting on April 2nd, save up to 85% on more than 4300 items.

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: For 13 Days starting on April 2nd, save up to 80% on more than 1000 items.

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