Author: Just Flight News

30th December 2024

We hope you found our recent End of Year Round Up of interest. We thought it might be useful to offer a recap on everything we covered just in case there was anything you may have missed or simply if you wanted to take a look once again. Here we go with how the week panned out.


Part One - We gave an update on product suport for current products and what to expect going forward.  Take a look at the recap here.



Part Two - We took a look at our Tornado GR1 and gave a full update and also supplied a new set of screenshots for your perusal.  If you missed this one or want to take a look again, head here.



Part Three - It was the turn of our F70/100 Professional to get some attention and an update was offered on the visuals and coding side of things for this eagerly anticipated airliner.  Take it all in again here.



Part Four - This is where we gave out a status report on our A300B4 Professional, once again eagerly anticipated and one that is certainly starting to look very special. Our dev team are especially excited about cracking on with the remaing work on this one.  Have a read and a recap here.



Part Five - This was our concluding update and offered the big reveal in terms of announcing that our L45 Professional was now in development. Fair to say the news was met with much excitement.  Here's a bonus screenshot below and to read the details again you can head to the news article here.



One other bonus that was included last week was the annoucnement of Fly The Line: Short Haul Edition, the new airliner pilot management sim that puts you in the cockpit of your favourite airliners, flying for your airline.  Full details on this one can be found here.



So that neatly wraps things up. We hope you enjoyed the new announcements and reading all of the updates and they  offered an insight as to where things stand with various projects.  And remember you can keep an eye on our In Development pages for further details on all of our projects as they progress.

24 December 2024

It's very pleasing to get some good news as we prepare to down tools for a few days' rest over Christmas, and the latest issue of PC Pilot magazine (#155, Jan/Feb 2025) has delivered that in the shape of a great review of our PA-28R Arrow III for X-Plane 12, which scored an impressive 89/100:

"Just Flight and Thranda have captured the essence of the Arrow"

"The Just Flight / Thranda Design Arrow performed beautifully and certainly makes a great stepping stone for those who want to step up from simpler models and experience an aircraft with added system complexity and modelling"

The Arrow III was released back in June of this year, and since then the Turbo Arrow III/IV has joined it in our X-Plane 12 hangar. Both add-ons are available together in a money-saving Bundle and will soon be joined by the next X-Plane 12 aircraft we are currently developing with Thranda Design - the PA-28-161 Warrior II.

More news on that in 2025, but for now we'll wish you all a merry Christmas and best wishes for a very happy and healthy New Year from all of us here at Just Flight.

20 December 2024

Welcome to Part Five of our 2024 End Of Year Round-Up and - as promised - we have a new aircraft announcement!

Just Flight is proud to present the LJ45 Professional – a long awaited incarnation of a classic Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft is now in development.

Previously available as a default aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series from FS98 through to FSX, the LJ45 combines a modern, glass cockpit flight deck with high performance flight characteristics, making it a firm favourite within the flight simulation community.

Using the latest modelling techniques, paired with the high fidelity systems of our Professional range, the Just Flight LJ45 Professional will take this well-loved private jet to a level not yet seen in any flight simulator.

Keep an eye on our In Development pages for further details as development on the LJ45 Professional progresses!

18 December 2024

Welcome to Part Three of our 2024 End Of Year Review!

As we reach the end of the year we have achieved some exciting milestones with our F70/100 Professional project.

In the cockpit, our coders have been hard at work integrating the F100’s complex systems. These are about 80% complete and we’ll be starting beta testing in the coming weeks. Fortunately we have a great testing team to help us, full of eager real-world F70/100 pilots, engineers and knowledgeable sim pilots ready to pick through every single detail. We’re sure that they will keep us on our toes with suggestions, helping to deliver an incredible product. We will, of course, bring you some specific development updates in due course, but for now enjoy these screenshots of the cockpit, ready for take-off.







Since our last F70/100 preview, which showed off the new HD base textures, our livery artist has been busy upgrading all the liveries to 8K resolution. This isn’t a simple task, due to the challenge of finding high-resolution reference photographs, especially for older liveries. This is particularly important given the level of texture detail that needs to be achieved for such high-resolution artwork. With this work also drawing to a close, we hope you’ll agree that the results are absolutely stunning and will put the F70/100 Professional in good stead for the future.

With regards to MSFS 2020 and 2024 compatibility, it’s still early days for MSFS 2024 and so core development is continuing in MSFS 2020 for now whilst we wait for greater stability. We remain committed to supporting both simulators.

Keep an eye out here and on our social media channels tomorrow for Part Four of our End Of Year Review 2024…

17 December 2024

Welcome to Part Two of the Just Flight End Of Year Review 2024!

Today we step into the hangar housing our future aircraft add-ons and, of course, the first aircraft that catches our eye is the Tonka – the Tornado GR1.

Whilst most of our development team have been focusing on the recently released RJ Professional, our modelling and texture artist has continued the seemingly never ending task of upgrading and refining the artwork on the Tornado. This is now complete on both the exterior and interior, bringing our Tornado right up to the cutting edge of flight simulation standards, including very accurate geometry, 8K resolution textures with life-like surface detail and a raft of other intricate details. We hope the screenshots below show the staggering level of detail our artist has accomplished here!



Our livery artist also continues to make good progress through the extensive Tornado livery list, with the German Air Force and German Navy being the latest operators to receive the paintbrush treatment. These Tornado IDS/ECR operators will boast with a variety of standard, display and tiger meet schemes, in addition to the plethora of Royal Air Force, Italian Air Force and Royal Saudi Air Force liveries that will also be included, all helping to tell the story of this much loved fast jet.



On the aircraft systems side, the Tornado GR1 will return to having a full-time dedicated coder in the new year, just as it did prior to the release of the RJ Professional. This will significantly speed up the development process and take us ever closer to our goal of having a high-fidelity fast jet in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The Tornado is an aircraft for which our development team has an abundance of passion and we hope that is reflected in the finished product. We'll be sharing more development updates on the Tornado as the systems coding, flight model, liveries and sound set continue to be refined in the new year. With regards to MSFS 2020 / MSFS 2024 compatibility, it’s still undecided which simulators we will be able to support with the Tornado, as this largely depends on the number of differences that we find within the SDK as development progresses. This is a decision we will have to take fairly soon, however, so we'll keep you informed once a decision has been made.

Keep an eye out here and on our social media channels tomorrow for Part Three of the Just Flight End Of Year Review 2024…