MSFS News Roundup: May 15–21, 2026 — SU5.1, PMDG, GSX Pro 4
SU5.1 beta lands to fix console crashes, PMDG finishes the 737NG overhaul, FlyByWire splits 2020 and 2024 builds, GSX Pro 4.0 ships, plus more.
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SU5.1 beta lands to fix console crashes, PMDG finishes the 737NG overhaul, FlyByWire splits 2020 and 2024 builds, GSX Pro 4.0 ships, plus more.
This week’s top 10 MSFS 2024 stories: Sim Update 5 enters final beta, PSVR2 and PS5 Marketplace launch confirmed, ATR Expert Series, World Update Australia, PMDG 777 and 737 updates, Fenix A320 hotfix, and the Navigraph 2026 survey crowns MSFS 2024 as the most popular platform.
This week’s biggest MSFS 2024 news: the April Developer Livestream reveals Sim Update 5, World Update Australia, Expert Series Piper M600, PSVR2 support, and a full 2026 roadmap.
Your weekly MSFS 2024 news roundup for the week of 2nd–9th April 2026. Covering the iniBuilds TriStar release, PMDG 737-700 launch date, DC Designs Concorde for MSFS 2024, Sim Update 5 beta, Marketplace Spring Sale, and more.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ships sim updates, world updates, and developer patches on a moving cadence, and most beginners only find out when something breaks. This pillar is the curated weekly index — every Friday roundup, every patch-note explainer, and the standalone breaking-news posts we publish when something important drops.
/news/yyyy/mm/.Coming soon. Patch-note explainers will live under this cluster as Microsoft and Asobo ship sim updates.
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A weekly roundup ships every Friday at 14:00 UTC, plus standalone breaking-news posts within 4 hours of confirmed major events such as a new sim release, a major outage, or a high-impact world update.
Primary sources only — Microsoft Flight Simulator Insider, Asobo Studio dev blogs, official developer channels for PMDG, Fenix, iniBuilds, and FlyByWire, plus the moderated r/flightsim and r/MicrosoftFlightSim subreddits. Every claim in a roundup links to its primary source.
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