Flight Simulator: Patch notes for hotfix 1.18.15.0

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Flight Simulator update 1.18.15.0 patch notes

Last Updated on: 7th August 2021, 08:52 pm

Flight Simulator has launched another hotfix for the latest update recently, so we made sure to grab the patch notes for Flight Simulator Hotfix Version 1.18.15.0 for you, all included inside.

Flight Simulator Patch notes for hotfix 1.18.15.0

We’ve got the full list of changes present in the 1.18.15.0 hotfix update for Flight Simulator listed below, sourced from the official patch notes.

The text below the Patch Notes header will be a slightly altered version of the patch notes provided by the Microsoft Flight Simulator Team, so you should be able to find all the info you need. Any changes made are purely formatting and no text content has been changed.

The official changelog was provided on the Flight Simulator website, which can be accessed here.

Additionally, as noted in the original patch notes, the heading image for this article is a featured screenshot that was provided to Microsoft by Hugothester.

Flight Simulator 1.18.15.0 Patch Notes

PC users: Some packages in your community folder may not have been updated and, as a result, may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior. Please move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title if you suffer from stability issues or long loading times.

  • Fixed ground level of detail (low resolution) when flying at airliner altitudes
  • Fixed “washed out / oil painted” clouds and the overall luminosity under cloud coverage
  • Fixed missing volumetric lights
  • Fixed abnormal temperature spikes over airports when the Metar data was not updating often enough
  • Aligned pressure altitude simvar and pitot static altitude calculations to prevent wrong altitude information for external Live ATC services
  • GPU stats are now displayed in the debug window when the dev mode is activated on PC
  • Disabled aggressive compilation optimization for WASM (signed-zeroes, NoInf and NoNaN but keep fast-math)

Known Issue

  • In-sim ATC service radar can still report incorrect altitude (fix expected in world Update 6)
Flight Simulator update 1.18.15.0 patch notes
Credit: Hugothester, Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

READ MORE: Flight Simulator: Patch notes for hotfix 1.18.14.0

That’s about the end of this batch of Flight Simulator Patch notes. Another set of fixes, one more little bit of improvement for this ever-popular simulation title.

Is there anything else to be aware of?

There’s nothing else for Flight Simulator update version 1.18.15.0, everything has been included in the patch notes above, it’s just a fix patch it seems.

When you’re done reading through the Flight Simulator patch notes, make sure to visit our homepage and check out what else is going on at the moment.