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:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS2024) was announced as a new standalone title launching November 19, featuring significant enhancements in aircraft, environmental realism, and new features, while MSFS 2020 will continue to receive updates until 2028 and X-Plane 12 will see performance and visual improvements.
Artificial Intelligence was a major theme, with new AI-powered services like SayIntentions.AI and FlyShirley.com offering advanced air traffic control, flight instruction, and virtual copilot functionalities, with some subscription price reductions.
Hardware innovations included WinWing's new EFIS and CDU controls and FliteSim.com's force feedback yokes, alongside announcements of new highly detailed aircraft models such as the Boeing 757 for MSFS and the Boeing 707 for X-Plane 12.

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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.