Microsoft Flight Simulator World Update Australia & Fokker F. VII Local Legend Released

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Today Microsoft released another of its major World Updates for Microsoft Flight Simulator, focusing on Australia.

The update requires three separate downloads on PC (and of course, it’s also available on Xbox). A small 500 MB update on the Windows Store or Steam is the first step, followed by a 1.88 GB update within the sim. Lastly, to get all the goodies, you’ll need an optional download from the in-sim marketplace which weighs 2.51 GB.

The update enriches the scenery in Australia considerably, and you can read the full patch notes here.

You can find a full list of features and a trailer below. Incidentally, we recently learned that the next world update in March will feature Spain and Portugal.

Photogrammetry Cities

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Hobart
Adelaide
Perth
Cairns
Darwin
Townsville
Mackay
Bunbury

Hand-Crafted Airport

YLRE – Longreach
YMBT – Mount Beauty Airport
YPBO – Paraburdoo
YSHL – Shellharbour Airport

Hand-Crafted Points of Interest

1 William Street
108 St Georges Terrace
443 Queen Street
568 Collins Street
Abbot Point Coal Terminal
Adelaide Oval
Albion Viaduct
Anzac Bridge
Aurora Melbourne Central
Australia 108
Bathurst Mount Panorama Racing Circuit
Bathurst Point Lighthouse
Batman Bridge
Bay of Islands
Bolte Bridge
Brisbane Skytower
Broadcast Australia Tower
Brookfield Place
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Cape Byron Lighthouse
Cape Cleveland Lighthouse
Cape Don Lighthouse
Cape Nelson Lighthouse
Cape Wickham Lighthouse
Cascade Dam
Central Park
Devils Gate Dam
Eureka Tower
Federation Square
Flinders Street Railway Station
Gabo Island Lighthouse
Gladesville Bridge
Gordon Dam
Grange Resources Port Latta Pier
Great Barrier Reef Activity Platform
Green Island Jetty
Hawkesbury River Rail Bridge
Houghton Highway Viaduct
Infinity Tower
Longitude 131° Lodge
Luna Park
Marvel Stadium
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Grand
Melbourne Square
Mooney Mooney Bridge
Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
Narrows Bridge
Ocean, 88 The Esplanade
One Barangaroo
Optus Stadium
Parkes Observatory
Paul Wild Observatory
Peats Ferry Bridge
Perth Arena
Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility
Premier Tower
Prima Pearl Tower
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane
Queens Place North Tower
Rialto Towers
Siding Spring Observatory
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (Gateway Bridges)
Soleil Brisbane
South Sister Lookout Antennae
Split Point Lighthouse
Stadium Australia
Story Bridge
Strangways Springs Ruins
Suncorp Stadium
Swanston Central
Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Football Stadium
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Tower
Tasman Bridge
Telstra Tower
The Big Banana Fun Park
The Big Merino
The Big Pineapple
The Big Prawn
The Gabba
The One
The WACA Ground
Three Sisters
Townsville Port
Twelve Apostles
Victoria Police Centre Towers
Wadjemup Lighthouse
Warragamba Dam
West Gate Bridge
West Side Place
Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse

Bush Trip

Tasmania
Southeastern Australia
Sea to Desert
Great Barrier Reef
Northwestern Kimberly Coast

Landing Challenges

Brisbane
Shellharbour
Mt Hotham
Katoomba
Mabuiag

Discovery Flight

Gold Coast
Sydney
Perth
Darwin
Melbourne
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

On top of the update, we also get the second “Local Legend” paid DLC, in the form of the historical Fokker F.VII.

It can be purchased at $14.99 on the official marketplace and it comes with the Fokker F.VIIa variant with one engine and the Fokker F.VIIb/3m with three engines.

Various liveries are included, like Southern Cross, which accomplished the first trans-pacific flight from California to Australia, Friendship, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Amelia Earhart as a passenger, Josephine Ford, which flew to the North Pole, and a KLM aircraft that did the first flight ever from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.

You can take a look in the trailer below.