Live blog: FSExpo Friday flight sim announcements and round-up!
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FSExpo 2026 delivered multiple hardware and software announcements in a rolling live-blog format. Thrustmaster unveiled the TCA Sky Yoke ($199.99, Q3 2026) — an all-in-one yoke with push-pull throttle, hall-effect sensors, and 180-degree roll capability for PC, PS5, and Xbox, plus a new Airbus grip module. Parallel 42 teased Sky Trails contrail improvements and an auto-camera sync hotkey with SayIntentions. SayIntentions.AI rolled out PlateBrief (voice-activated chart navigation via NaviGraph), a backtrack feature for re-attempting approaches, and new immersion modules for ground ops and rescue scenarios. iniBuilds showcased the A380 and announced Plane English / ARSimLink — a new communication-training system launching within the month.
Excerpt from Stormbirds
Flight Sim Expo 2026 is happening right now and, in true FSExpo tradition, we’ve got an afternoon of product announcements coming from all across the community. Hardware, software, combat flight sims, civil flight sims, utilities, and more. Join me this afternoon and after for a rolling update of all of the latest news from across the community. Here we go!
Watching it live
It’s free to watch live on Friday so I encourage everyone to watch along as we go through a lengthy list of sim updates. Check out the updates below for live updates as they come in.
Live blog underway
Welcome address
Evan from the FSExpo team has just finished his welcome. We’ve got 17 sessions to get through this afternoon so this should be an interesting and action packed session.
Thrustmaster
Thrustmaster is first up and they are talking up their firsts in value, licensing, and more.
They say they’ve sold half a million units of the TCA units.
TCA Sky Yoke! Just announced a new push-pull, hall-effect, 3.5″ travel, 180 degree roll, 7 axes, 24 buttons, 2 triggers, trim wheel and throttle in an all in one.
$199.99 USD, Q3 2026 for PS5, Xbox and PC.
Can connect two yokes to have a co-pilot experience. You’ll be able to try it out in their booth.
Teases a quadrant that is coming. Announcement later in the show.
New officially licensed grip add-on grip for Airbus with A3XX and A400M module add-on. $199.99 USD and also coming in Q3 2026.
Parallel 42
A new add-on from Parallel 42 called sky trails. Not many details but it sounds like the idea is to make contrails better and more persistent.
SayIntentions.AI
SayIntentions is saying that they will change three things with your flight sim experience.
New hotkey from Parallel 42 with auto camera sync with SayIntentions.
New PlateBrief feature with NaviGraph lets you use voice commands to bring up the charts and automatically switch charts as needed.
It’ll let you ask questions like “What’s the go around procedure?” Neat!
Now they are touting a new backtrack feature that teleports you back in your flight so you can try your approach again.
And we’ve got more with a new SayIntentions.AI app, new immersion systems for ground ops, firefighting, search and rescue and more.
iniBuilds
We’ve got the A380 trailer that I just reported on earlier rolling right now.
Plane English: ARSimLink and Volo comms training
Coming this month, new system for communication training.
The idea is to help you learn how to communicate on the…
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