MSFS Sim Update IV released with massive changes and improvements
The Flight Simulator team released today Sim Update IV (1.16.2.0), a comprehensive list of changes to the base simulation that should greatly improve many of its aspects, ranging from navigation, weather, aircraft behavior, and much more.
This release follows on a series of similar Sim Updates, which aim to improve all the variables of flight in MSFS, and are interspersed with World Updates, aimed on expanding the scenery below.
Sim Update 4 includes a very large list of changes, some of which highly requested by the community, such as fixes to the excessive icing effects, improvements to the turboprop simulation, ATC fixes, or a weather radar that should now display precipitation instead of cloud coverage.
It’s highly recommended that you first move your Community folder contents to a new temporary location, as many third-party addons may need to be updated. Otherwise, you may have some stability issues.
As usual, to get the update just fire up MSFS and you should be prompted with a download that is a little under 6 GB.
For the full release notes, make sure to check the official Flight Simulator blog, which details every change that has been made.
howard gipps
Be careful with this update. My installation now refuses to open correctly and takes me to the GameBar for an update that won’t update. Worked fine immediately after updating. Would not open the next day.
I am starting to see similar comments in the MS Forums.