Highlights From FlightSimExpo 2024

Convention provides updates on top simulator titles and more.

Sean Siff

Monday, June 24, 2024 at 12:30 PM ET

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Edited By: tccjeremy

FlightSimExpo 2024 in Las Vegas over the weekend enjoyed record-setting attendance. [FlightSimExpo]

Key Takeaways:

FlightSimExpo 2024 announced the November 19 launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as a new, standalone title featuring updated aircraft, enhanced scenery, and improved flight dynamics, while confirming continued monthly updates for MSFS 2020 until 2028.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly integrating into flight simulation, with new services like SayIntentions.AI and FlyShirley.com offering AI-powered air traffic control, virtual instructors, and copilots, often at reduced subscription costs.
Hardware innovations include WinWing's new, more affordable EFIS and CDU controls, and FliteSim.com's release of force-feedback yokes, alongside X-Plane 12's upcoming performance updates, and new aircraft models like the Boeing 757 and 707 announced by various developers.

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LAS VEGAS—Since 2018, the Flight Sim Association has been organizing an annual convention, FlightSimExpo, for flight simulation enthusiasts attended by both sim and real-world pilots, software, and hardware developers.

Over 2,000 simulator enthusiasts, a new attendance record, gathered in the comfort of the air conditioning inside the Rio Las Vegas Hotel & Convention Center while near-record heat scorched the city’s world-famous strip and surrounding desert.