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

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.