What a day for flight simming! Not only did we get Contrail’s Falcon FA50, but Just Flight has also dropped its long-awaited Fokker F70 and F100, which finally arrive in the sim in high-fidelity form. It’s the studio’s most ambitious airliner project so far, by its own account.
The Fokkers flew for KLM Cityhopper, Austrian Airlines, American, QantasLink and dozens of other carriers, and a handful still operate today, with Alliance Airlines in Australia among the larger fleets. As an evolution of the F28 Fellowship, which Just Flight previously brought to the sim, the stretched F100 entered service in 1988, and the shorter F70 followed in the 1990s. Both run Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans.
A long road, and a rebuild that cost time
Work on the project goes back to 2022, when the first art assets were built for FSX and Prepar3D, before the team moved fully to MSFS in late 2023. The reason it took this long to reach release comes down largely to one system. As we reported when the aircraft entered final testing in May, Just Flight scrapped its first vertical navigation implementation and rebuilt it from scratch, the first time the studio has developed a fully autopilot-coupled VNAV system.
That system sits inside the AFCAS, the Automatic Flight Control and Augmentation System, which is the Fokker’s autopilot and flight director architecture. Its Profile mode handles vertical navigation along a filed route. Just Flight says the aircraft can now fly in Profile mode from 35 feet after takeoff down to approach minimums. It holds to altitude and speed constraints, and when a descent path is too steep or the flight plan has a discontinuity, the system raises alerts on the PFD and CDU. The team has said the AFCAS and FMS were the two most complex and interconnected parts of the aircraft, and the reason a release date was hard to commit to.
Custom systems and real-world quirks
The flight deck is built around fully custom systems. Just Flight says the aircraft features dual, independently simulated FMS CDUs, so the flight can be run from either seat, along with a custom FMS, custom autopilot, custom autothrottle, CRT EFIS displays, weather radar, a custom EPR simulation and the original Fokker page hierarchy. The cost index system is new to a Just Flight aircraft, according to the developer. We covered the full systems breakdown when the product overview landed last weekend, and it is worth a read if you want the complete picture.
What stands out is how many real-world quirks survived into the sim. Just Flight points out that both types are certified for flap-zero takeoffs, the preferred setting when runway length allows, which catches you off guard after years of other airliners. The speed brake has only two positions, in and out, and is separate from the lift dumpers. The gear retracts in nine seconds but takes thirty-two to extend, a deliberate choice to avoid sudden pitch changes on approach. And a heavy F100 in warm conditions can take more than forty minutes to reach cruise, the developer says, which turns short European hops into proper procedural flights rather than quick exercises.
Cabin, sound and the 2024 build
The passenger cabin is fully modelled and can be switched off to help performance. Just Flight says it produced more than 25 cabin variants, paired with an advanced galley simulation, interactive doors, Auto Cabin Crew logic, an interphone and a digital music player with announcements and music modes, and each livery ships with its own cabin textures. There is also a new, separate livery manager for installing 4K and 8K paint schemes, which the developer says will let it push livery updates more quickly.
The soundscape was built in Audiokinetic’s Wwise from recordings of the real aircraft, and Just Flight describes it as its best sound work yet. On MSFS 2024 specifically, the developer says the aircraft take advantage of the newer sim’s features, including an improved LOD system for better performance, windshield wiper effects, and the interactive walk-around mode for operating doors, chocks and the GPU from outside.
The 2024 build also supports the native interactive checklist system with over 300 items, alongside interactive paper checklists that accept your own custom documents. The onboard EFB handles aircraft states, fuel and payload, performance calculations, checklists and flight planning, with SimBrief and Navigraph integration.
Price and availability
The F70 Professional and F100 Professional are each priced at US$69.99, and every purchase includes the native MSFS 2020 and 2024 builds. The package covers one F70 variant and four F100 configurations, each F100 with its own door layout, cabin and flight model. The F70 ships with 11 liveries and the F100 with 18, for 29 across the two.
Buying the two separately comes to just under US$140, so the best value play is in the F70 & F100 Professional Bundle at US$84.99, a saving of around US$55.
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