Word!
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Being worked on apparently. Last update was about a month a go saying they are on it but no news to report:
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I need to throw my hat in the ring to be a consultant on that one. Or…err…maybe not.
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FENIX ANNOUNCES BETA FOR ITS A320
https://fenixsim.com/2022/01/31/fenix-a320-destination-beta/
PREVIEW VIDEO RELEASED
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Finally, a real racetrack included in an update… Phillip Island race track,
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Australia World Update Trailer - YouTube
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Happy (MSFS) Australia Day 
. Expect chaos.
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Australia World Update Trailer
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Local Legends #2 – Fokker F.VII – Available now
Soar over the renowned Great Barrier Reef, visit the vast regions of Western Australia, and marvel at the natural beauty of Mount Wellington. From the dusty red outback to shimmering coastlines and sugar white sand beaches, explore the country’s most spectacular sights.
A country known for being as diverse as it is beautiful, this great Southern land presents a bucket list of jaw-dropping natural formations and modern man-made wonders – now enhanced with exceptional graphic improvements.
Orbx Simulation Systems, based in Melbourne, Australia, has handcrafted four airports and added high-resolution detail to over 100 others. The update also includes 94 custom crafted points of interest (POIs). And there are 16 new activities, including five bush trips, six discovery flights, and five landing challenges that will take Microsoft Flight Simulator pilots Down Under.
RELEASE NOTES 1.22.2.0
If you are playing on PC, some packages in your community folder may not have been updated and, as a result, may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behaviour.
Please move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title if you suffer from stability issues or long loading times.World
Updated elevation data for Australia
Updated aerial imagery for Australia
Updated water mask across various locations
Improved Airport data on 100 airportsYMML YAYE YBBN YSBK YPPH YPAD YMEN YPDN YMHB YMMB
YBAF YSPT YPJT YMAV YMPC YSHW YPPF YBHM YSCN YBTL
YBTH YCBG YBSU YRED YMLT YCFS YMND YSTW YPEA YBLT
YBRK YBNA YPKG YLIL YTWB YHID YKII YTDN YMAY YBRM
YPMQ YCIN YMRY YDPO YBMK YBUD YKSC YGEL YTEM YMNG
YMTG YLTV YORG YSNF YSWG YABA YPLC YIFL YWSL YCNK
YMIA YWYY YSDU YBLN YPPD YBHI YMUL YSHT YMBA YBPN
YBUN YNRM YGLA YPWR YESP YLEG YPOD YBNS YWGT YSCO
YCOR YPKA YMCO YPLM YDBY YPIR YCAR YCDU YBMA YQDI
YTOC YHSM YCBP YMBU YPKU YOOD YEML YGTH YOLW YMOR
Addition of more than 500 missing airports in game including 54 for Australia thanks to the Community:YBDG YCCT YCPR YHOX YMAE YNPE YSNB
YTNG YWBS YYKI YYMI YADY YALC YBBS
YBDS YBUB YCED YCES YCFF YCHL YCHR
YCLG YCOF YCPG YCPP YCRT YFLS YGGO
YGNF YGUU YINH YISV YJNY YKAA YKAB
YLAN YLLR YMBX YMKT YMPE YMPH YPDY
YPIN YPKH YPVD YQBK YRAT YSPK YSPV
YWGM YWSC YWSD YYUN YYWA
Optional World update content (via the in-game marketplace)
AUSTRALIA
Photogrammetry Cities
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Hobart
Adelaide
Perth
Cairns
Darwin
Townsville
Mackay
Bunbury
Hand-Crafted Airport
YLRE – Longreach
YMBT - Mount Beauty Airport
YPBO – Paraburdoo
YSHL - Shellharbour Airport
Hand-Crafted Points of Interest
1 William Street
108 St Georges Terrace
443 Queen Street
568 Collins Street
Abbot Point Coal Terminal
Adelaide Oval
Albion Viaduct
Anzac Bridge
Aurora Melbourne Central
Australia 108
Bathurst Mount Panorama Racing Circuit
Bathurst Point Lighthouse
Batman Bridge
Bay of Islands
Bolte Bridge
Brisbane Skytower
Broadcast Australia Tower
Brookfield Place
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Cape Byron Lighthouse
Cape Cleveland Lighthouse
Cape Don Lighthouse
Cape Nelson Lighthouse
Cape Wickham Lighthouse
Cascade Dam
Central Park
Devils Gate Dam
Eureka Tower
Federation Square
Flinders Street Railway Station
Gabo Island Lighthouse
Gladesville Bridge
Gordon Dam
Grange Resources Port Latta Pier
Great Barrier Reef Activity Platform
Green Island Jetty
Hawkesbury River Rail Bridge
Houghton Highway Viaduct
Infinity Tower
Longitude 131° Lodge
Luna Park
Marvel Stadium
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Grand
Melbourne Square
Mooney Mooney Bridge
Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
Narrows Bridge
Ocean, 88 The Esplanade
One Barangaroo
Optus Stadium
Parkes Observatory
Paul Wild Observatory
Peats Ferry Bridge
Perth Arena
Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility
Premier Tower
Prima Pearl Tower
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane
Queens Place North Tower
Rialto Towers
Siding Spring Observatory
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (Gateway Bridges)
Soleil Brisbane
South Sister Lookout Antennae
Split Point Lighthouse
Stadium Australia
Story Bridge
Strangways Springs Ruins
Suncorp Stadium
Swanston Central
Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Football Stadium
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Tower
Tasman Bridge
Telstra Tower
The Big Banana Fun Park
The Big Merino
The Big Pineapple
The Big Prawn
The Gabba
The One
The WACA Ground
Three Sisters
Townsville Port
Twelve Apostles
Victoria Police Centre Towers
Wadjemup Lighthouse
Warragamba Dam
West Gate Bridge
West Side Place
Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse
Bush Trip
Tasmania
Southeastern Australia
Sea to Desert
Great Barrier Reef
Northwestern Kimberly Coast
Landing Challenges
Brisbane
Shellharbour
Mt Hotham
Katoomba
Mabuiag
Discovery Flight
Gold Coast
Sydney
Perth
Darwin
Melbourne
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National ParkAdditional Mission
With the Fokker VII from England to Karachi 40: Koschi, one of our community creators, just completed a series of journeys for the platform’s “local legends” missions, which focus on a specific airframe type and recreate historic air routes and individual noteworthy flights of the past. His recent work highlights the Fokker F.VII family of aircraft, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Aviation.One of Koschi’s Fokker F.VII missions, the 1928 aerial expedition from South East England to Karachi (then India) in the Princess Xenia, didn’t make it into the official package release, and we wanted to announce it here, so all can have a chance to enjoy it! Koshi’s route in Princess Xenia, which is retrofit with a modern cockpit and adorned in KLM livery, creatively follows the spirit of the original flight, weaving through some of the most beautiful and fascinating locations in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Download 40 the mission and enjoy!
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OK, I’ll say it.
I’ve been looking forward to that little Fokker for a long time!
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Version 1.22.2.0 is in the Microsoft Store (or I guess Steam) and clocks in at about a 1.88GB download patch.
Aussie content is about 2.51GB.
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I know graphics are the devil, and that MSFS will never be a true real sim for true real simmers, but damn, that Fenix cockpit looks crazy good:
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It’s early days with MSFS. It already looks amazing. I have confidence that smart people will do much with the platform. Look at what the A-4C and UH-60 mod teams have done for DCS without having the SDK access.
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Yes, but does it look real…? 
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I likes graphics… (And cats)
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New bird for MSFS:
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DC DESIGNS CONCORDE PRICING REVEALED + XBOX LAUNCH CONFIRMED!
FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE: ( All images are WIP )
First off this week, I’d like to thank the hundreds ( thousands? ) of commenters both here and elsewhere on the Internet for all the hugely enthusiastic and excited comments on the short Concorde preview video I released last week. I was genuinely surprised by the scale of the reaction, which has given me great confidence going forward with the project.
This week, there has been huge ( and I mean really huge ) work performed not by me, but by CodenameJack, who has created Concorde’s immense fuel network system in MSFS to include all 13 tanks, 160 connecting fuel lines, 38 pumps and 34 valves.
Every last one of them is connected to the relevant switches on the engineer’s panel, rendering the system fully operational in the sim. It’s hard to describe what a mammoth task that has been for him. Work is now progressing on Concorde’s equally vast electrical and hydraulic systems so that they can also be connected up to the relevant animations, further increasing the realism possible with this aircraft.
While CodenameJack was achieving all that, I built Concorde’s toilet!
To be more accurate, I worked largely on the interior this week as I needed a brief break from the complexity of the flight deck. I have built and textured much of the forward passenger cabin, the entrance area, the forward galley and the “tunnel” that leads to the cockpit.
There remains much to do here so it’s still very much WIP, but there have been many requests for an interior that the user can “walk” through so I thought it was about time to share some proper images of the work done so far.
There will be a few features including working flight deck and rest-room doors, handles, things like that, but as this is not Passenger Cabin Simulator, I’m not intending to go into absolute detail here, just a good rendition of Concorde’s interior to make users feel at home.
Next week, work will continue on finishing the interior and also connecting up all those electrical and hydraulic systems on the flight deck. There is still some custom coding to be done, a few instruments remain to be animated on some of the panels, and the interior lighting needs to be added before Concorde will be ready for final testing. While that testing is underway, I will work on improving the exterior model / textures while writing the manual.
We have also have agreed the pricing for Concorde! The cost will be £27.99 / $39.99 / €34.95 and worldwide equivalents. In addition, if you’re already a DCD Concorde owner in Prepar3D and want to upgrade to MSFS, the price will be less at £23.99, $35.99 and €29.95.
On a final note, there have been some concerns lately about complex airliners in MSFS that have for one reason or another been held back from a console release due to functionality problems. Concorde is entirely internally coded, without the use of WASM gauges, so there should be no issues with its functionality on the console.
That’s it for this week. Happy Friday!
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Well, I think I’ve found my bird for next year’s Christmas Trek…
Looks great!
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It’s sleek, but there’s something about this whole plane that feels dated. Especially when you see the cockpit. It looks like something you would see on one of the fictional planes in Thunderbirds or one of Jerry Andersons other shows
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Avionics wise, it is over 50 years old…so yes, it’s dated. It comes from a time when performance and prestige outweighed the need to be efficient and profitable. They were also not too worried about keeping the airport neighbors happy when it came to noise levels. Maximizing profit, fuel efficiency and noise abatement are a big deal these days.
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That sounds like exactly my kind of aircraft!
Thunderbirds! GO!
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The horror for a maintenance shop.
I remember the Eastern mechanics always troubleshooting the TriStar’s multiplex system. If memory serves, most of the cabin’s call system lights, which indicated when the cockpit crew, passengers, or lavatories needed attention, the in-flight entertainment, including movie, music, and PA to overhead speakers, passenger’s seats, lavatories, below deck galley, and crew phones at each of the 8 doors and galley, all ran through the same wire bundles. There was a magic box in the forward cabin replete with various colored lights that the mechanics would sometimes stand in front of, befuddled by what they viewed, often accompanied by under-breath swearing, at which often the best remedy was a palm slap or hammer tap.
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Aka, percussive maintenance.
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