The development team behind me Microsoft Flight Simulator released monthly updates to the hit title, and this year, it was almost all about city updates. Just two weeks ago, the Las Vegas sites received major upgrades, while Europe was the focus of two previous updates. Now that we’re heading into July, the next city update has already landed, and it’s focused on the northeastern United States.

City Update 9 is said to bring upgraded visuals and greater accuracy to four main areas, all using “updated aerial imagery, new digital elevation models, and TIN (triangle irregular) surface texturing. Watch the latest trailer for the update with plenty of gameplay featuring the updated locations down:

“The Washington, D.C. area; Buffalo, New York; Allentown, Pennsylvania area; and the East End of Long Island, New York,” are the specific areas the developer has focused on providing digital highlights. Moreover, “the Virginia cities of Gainesville, Bristow, Stafford and Fairfax and the Maryland cities of Frederick and Annapolis, home of the United States Naval Academy,” areas surrounding Washington, DC.

Microsoft Flight Simulator City Update 9: Northeast United States is now available as an optional download on Steam and the Microsoft Store for PC, Xbox Series X|S, as well as Xbox and PC Game Pass subscribers. Xbox One, mobile and PC players can also jump in to use Xbox Cloud Gaming if they have a Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Like other city updates, this is not offered as a mandatory download, and can be found in the in-game market for free. However, the game version must be at least 1.37.19.0 to install it. Microsoft also recently announced that this release of the Microsoft Flight Simulator will continue to receive updates until 2028, offering its 15 million players plenty more content to look forward to.