The iniBuilds A380 lands, Microsoft lays out the autumn roadmap, SayIntentions.AI lets the flight deck talk to the cabin — and Murph opens the toolbox for a proper Flow Pro and ChasePlane deep dive.
The show opened while Microsoft’s September developer stream was still rolling. Murph was taking notes live, trying not to break things in the name of “science”, talking Poland and the Baltics, the AN-28, the Praetor, model matching, shared cockpit, cats on harnesses and a very busy couple of weekends ahead. There was also the promise of Twitch front page exposure: “I might even brush my hair.”
After years of development, iniBuilds’ A380 arrived in the MSFS 2024 Marketplace. Murph’s first impression was emphatic: the launch response had been strong, the aircraft had serious systems depth, both engine options, a richly modelled flight deck and enough automation to make the enormous Airbus approachable without stripping away the challenge.
Performance was the obvious watch-point for an aircraft of this scale, and Murph highlighted the options to reduce the load, including cabin and visual-effect controls. His own flights — including the entirely sensible decision to take the first one into Madeira — had already convinced him this was iniBuilds’ biggest aircraft achievement yet.
“This has been a cracking release… it’s just a great aircraft. It’s enjoyable to fly. It’s a challenge. There’s depth there if you want it.”
Microsoft confirmed Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as the next World Update region. The official recap lists updated photogrammetry for cities including Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas, Vilnius, Gdansk and Warsaw, alongside five handcrafted airports, 77 POIs and new activities for both sim generations.
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Aircraft & Avionics Update 6 is planned for 29 September, bringing the Dornier Wal, Do X, Do 31, Junkers F13 and — to Murph’s considerable delight — the JU-52 to native MSFS 2024 standards.
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AT Simulations’ twin-turboprop AN-28 will accompany the regional update. Murph’s technical summary was less formal: it looks like someone “slapped two enormous turboprops” onto a compact utility aircraft.
Watch the reactionBlueBird put a date on the 757: 23 October. Murph unpacked the unusual part of the delay — the aircraft itself is described as being in final-touch territory, while the studio has also been building the commercial infrastructure around its first major release and working through changes introduced by Sim Update 7.
The $80 package is planned with -200 and -300 passenger variants, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney engine options, and coverage for both 2020 and 2024; the fully native 2024 version is planned as a later free upgrade.
The hype has been enormous, and that cuts both ways. Murph is excited — the 757 was the first commercial aircraft he flew on — but after years of “coming soon”, expectations are now sky-high.
Airplane Heaven confirmed the unusual mid-engined Bell P-39 Airacobra. Murph admitted this one had escaped even his WWII-aircraft radar — which is precisely why it caught his attention.
WatchThe PT6-powered Cheyenne III is paired with SkyPass: more than two dozen training tasks, analytics-driven debriefs and a final virtual checkride. Murph immediately saw the appeal of aircraft-specific training rather than another PDF “the size of a phone book”.
WatchOrbx product pageEmergencyDispatcherPro’s Global Missions and multiplayer update changes the scale of the add-on. Co-op crews can now answer the same incident, while the browser-based Command Center lets a dispatcher create and assign incidents, track aircraft and coordinate multiple active operations. Remote Medics can even join the patient-care side without owning EDPro.
That was Murph’s reaction to the command-centre concept — and the role-play possibilities were obvious: who is closest, who has the right equipment, who actually has the fuel to take the call?
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The 2026 update adds a dense custom-city layer and compatibility choices around Kai Tak. Murph’s point was simple: handcrafted city detail can transform the night environment in a way default buildings often cannot.
WatchOfficial sceneryHangar Addons launched as a creator-first alternative to the established repositories: no forced pre-roll, no throttled downloads and no premium tier. Murph welcomed the competition, while pointing out the unavoidable question: somebody still has to pay for hosting and storage.
Choice is healthy. The downside for simmers is another website, another login and another place to check for updates. In a perfect world, there would be one dependable source — but “utter utopia” is not where flight sim lives.
Murph revisited the SU7 beta and National Championship Air Races: wear, failure and overspeed consequences add strategy to the racing rather than leaving it as a pure full-throttle sprint.
WatchSayIntentions.AI’s new passenger-announcement capability was the perfect invitation for Murph to test the limits. From the A380 flight deck he asked his co-pilot to brief passengers using the SimBrief plan — departure, destination, cruise altitude and flight time — and then, naturally, asked him to stall a delay with a joke.
The co-pilot obliged. The resulting “grounded” dad joke was followed, in Murph’s imagination, by roughly 390 passengers slapping their foreheads.
The more useful side is dynamic: delays, turbulence, diversions and other events can now be passed from the flight deck to the cabin, with context already available from the filed flight.
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This is more than another group flight. On 26–27 September, the Route 66 Sky Relay turns the classic Chicago-to-Los Angeles route into a 24-hour community relay supporting Orbis and its Flying Eye Hospital. Eleven creators will carry the route across the United States, with Murph scheduled to launch the event on the opening Chicago-to-St. Louis leg.
The important bit: the community is invited. You can fly a single leg, jump in for several, or attempt the whole relay — and participation is not locked behind SayIntentions.AI. The aim is to bring the wider flight-sim community together around the route while putting Orbis and its sight-saving work front and centre.
A proper community event: multiple streamers, an iconic route, everybody welcome, and a reason for doing it beyond simply logging another flight.
Spanish controller and airline-pilot voices joined the expanding rollout. After flying in Australia the previous night, Murph’s verdict on the new generation was that the best voices are getting very difficult to distinguish from real people.
WatchMurph also previewed SayIntentions.AI’s rebuilt live map: a pop-out window designed to live on another screen, with map layers, weather, traffic filters and aircraft details. It was still being polished, but already looked quick and responsive.
Watch the previewThe deep dive began with cameras. Murph’s real reason for ChasePlane is not just pretty wing shots: it is standardisation. The same controls and broadly the same camera positions follow him from aircraft to aircraft — and even between MSFS and X-Plane — so learning a new cockpit means less relearning of the interface.
From there he demonstrated view groups, physics, keybinds, Stream Deck control, community camera imports, cinematics, head tracking, the browser remote and the newer spotting tools — including SayIntentions.AI traffic.
“It is a remarkable bit of kit.” The best camera system is the one that disappears into muscle memory.
Flow is the other half of Murph’s everyday setup: fast access to time, weather, cameras, radios, checklists, doors, Twitch interactions and third-party widgets without constantly fighting the default toolbar. The TTM wheel, ghost wheels and community widgets showed how personal the setup can become.
There are limitations inherited from MSFS 2024 — multiplayer toggles and some data points simply are not exposed to developers yet — and Murph also discussed reports of FPS loss, with Portal/friend-list activity one area he has been investigating.
Murph closed the practical part of the show by reporting back on his OptiScaler experiment. Compared with his earlier DLSS 5 tests, he was seeing a much smoother result and lower GPU load on his own RTX 5090 setup. He credited Roy for the pointer and Kenko for a straightforward installation video.
Crucially, this was presented as a personal visual preference rather than a universal recommendation. Murph said he would keep the on-screen DLSS marker visible whenever he uses it so viewers know the image is being altered.
Visual-processing results here are Murph’s experience on his own system and settings, not a benchmark claim for other hardware.
Gripen, MiG-29/35, F-16, J-20, J-35, Su-30, J-15 and Mitsubishi F-2 were among the candidates.
WatchMurph highlighted the very A2A development loop: fly the real aircraft, notice something, go back and model it.
WatchOne of Murph’s all-time favourites is now available to PlayStation pilots — a useful proof point for complex classic aircraft on the platform.
WatchThe Adriatic airport brings custom buildings, ground textures, terrain work and dynamic night lighting.
WatchOnAir’s free handbook series now pushes further into the practical side of the platform. Murph highlighted Volume III as a 27-chapter, 203-page guide covering getting airborne, setting up your first company, repeatable operations and the deeper industry systems. His point: OnAir can be kept relatively simple, but for anyone who wants to really sink their teeth into the management side, the Academy gives them a structured way in.
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Watch from 1:26:37Murph’s closing thought on the state of flight simulation: whatever the frustrations, this is the golden age.
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