USA world update 1.11.6.0 is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It comes with four new airports and almost 50 new points of interest. In addition to the above, you can expect several fixes and improvements to performance and stability, planes, UI, input, activity, and the world. The full update notes are below.  

Microsoft Flight Simulator - USA World Update

Airports

KATL – Atlanta International KFHR – Friday Harbor KDFW – Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) KSWF – New York Stewart International Airport

Points of Interest

Chimney Rock Crazy Horse Memorial Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown MA Fort Jefferson Washington Monument, Washington DC Capitol, Washington DC White House, Washington DC Wright Brothers National Memorial Mount Rushmore Biltmore Estate Devils Tower New River Gorge Bridge United States National Arboretum Bixby Creek Bridge Chesapeake Bay Bridge Sunshine Skyway Bridge Mackinac Bridge Navajo Bridge Astoria-Megler Bridge U.S. Grant Bridge Lowry Avenue Bridge Lewis and Clark Bridge The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge Fort Knox Monument Rocks National Natural Coronado Heights Castle Ellis County Courthouse Monument Valley Yosemite El Capitan Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado Shiprock, New Mexico Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon Half Dome, Yosemite Dworshak Dam Hoover Dam Oroville Dam Alcatraz (water tower and lighthouse only) Fort McHenry, Baltimore Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls Glen Canyon Dam Las Vegas Strip (Night) Confederation Bridge Johnson Space Center Houston (visitor’s center) Kennedy Space Center Florida (visitors center) Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (memorial site) Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii National Radio Astronomy Observatory Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rigs Airport Graveyard, Tucson

Performance and Stability

Several crashes were fixed to improve the overall stability of the title Optimization on photogrammetry loading Offline air traffic aircraft are now properly removed at a long distance. This caused performance degradation over time.

Planes

From handling and flight model improvements to auto-pilot fixes, a general review of all planes has been made for this update.

Airliners

Fixed: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental fuel consumption issue Fixed: Airbus A320neo fuel consumption issue Reduced yaw oscillation on the Airbus A320neo by further reducing yaw gain

General Aviation Aircraft

Pipistrel Virus SW121: Fixed – Cruise speed adjusted (previously too low) in the aircraft selection menu Cessna 152: 5% more elevator authority Cirrus SR22: Fixed – The mixture control is no longer set to Automixture Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX: Fixed – invisible spoiler removed EXTRA 330LT : Engine reactivity increased EXTRA 330LT : Fixed full castoring tail wheel animation and allowed up to 90° rotation Robin Cap10 : Allowed 90° range of motion for full castering rear wheel

Garmin glass cockpit equipped aircraft 

Added visual notification on PFD when deactivating AP The flight director is now automatically turned on when AP is enabled and cannot be disabled

UI

The data consumption value calculation has been fixed Fix input feedback on some devices The livery name should now be correctly displayed in the menus The weather image in the flight plan should now be correct in all cases Some accuracy for the live time have been fixed Fixed an issue that prevented the checklist eye button to be selected The bushtrip menu should no longer freeze Switching from online to offline in the menu should no longer freeze the title Fixed some behaviors that resulted in having the World map search not responding

Input

Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added (GA Twin engines configuration) CH Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added CH Flightstick Pro default preset has been added CH Combatstick default preset has been added

Activity

The logbook should now properly log unfinished flights (either via return to main menu or via landing and shutting down the engine and Master) The landing challenge target should now be properly displayed after restarting the activity

World

Streetlights of smaller streets and roads should now be displayed more randomly Workers on an airport should no longer randomly freeze and stop being animated