February 19th, 2026 MSFS Weekly Briefing
Weekly RecapThe Sim Update 5 public beta test for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 began last week! In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for the first test build here. Thank you to everyone who is participating in the beta for your feedback and bug reports. If you do encounter any issues when testing the SU5 beta build, be sure to create a new Bug Report or upvote and contribute to an existing report of the same issue in the appropriate SU5 subcategory of our forums. Also please be sure to vote in our forum surveys at this link.In other news, today was the regularly monthly navdata update (AIRAC cycle 2602) for both Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This update additionally included some fixes for a small number of airports in MSFS 2024 only. You can read all the details here.Finally, to everyone around the world celebrating the Lunar New Year this week, the MSFS team wishes you all good luck and prosperity in the upcoming year!Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!

The Sim Update 5 public beta test for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 began last week! In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for the first test build here. Thank you to everyone who is participating in the beta for your feedback and bug reports. If you do encounter any issues when testing the SU5 beta build, be sure to create a new Bug Report or upvote and contribute to an existing report of the same issue in the appropriate SU5 subcategory of our forums. Also please be sure to vote in our forum surveys at this link.
In other news, today was the regularly monthly navdata update (AIRAC cycle 2602) for both Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This update additionally included some fixes for a small number of airports in MSFS 2024 only. You can read all the details here.
Finally, to everyone around the world celebrating the Lunar New Year this week, the MSFS team wishes you all good luck and prosperity in the upcoming year!
Click here to continue reading the rest of the Weekly Briefing!
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