AAU6 updates five German Local Legends to native MSFS 2024 format

# What AAU6 delivers

The rebuilds target flight dynamics, aircraft systems, cockpit interactions and visuals so the planes can take full advantage of MSFS 2024 features such as the modular aircraft system and career-mode integration.

# Which aircraft and why they matter These are not typical airliners — the batch spans early metal transports, flying boats and an experimental VTOL transport:

• Junkers Ju 52 (Tante Ju): Local Legend 1 and a longstanding community favorite.
• Junkers F 13: Early transport available in wheel, float, ski and replica variants.
• Dornier Do X: Massive multi-engine flying boat with heavy rendering demands.
• Dornier Do J Wal: Flying boat with historical variants including polar and transatlantic examples.
• Dornier Do 31: Experimental jet VTOL transport with complex lift-engine systems.

AAU6 consolidates the Local Legends story by bringing these historically and technically distinctive aircraft up to the same framework used for new MSFS 2024 aircraft.

# What changed technically Microsoft summarizes the technical work as refinements across several areas rather than line-by-line bug fixes. The changes reported across the five aircraft include:

• Flight performance, control response and ground handling refinements.
• Updates to engine, fuel, electrical and cockpit systems to match MSFS 2024 requirements.
• Improved preflight and exterior interactions where applicable.
• Migration to the MSFS 2024 modular aircraft system, with cleaner exterior and interior materials and textures, fixes for legacy material and draw-order issues, and optimized assets and LODs.

Those visual and optimization changes are particularly relevant for the Do X because of its large airframe and many engines to render.

# Specialized improvements: water and VTOL Two aircraft received targeted handling work.

• Do X and Do J Wal: Water handling for taxi, takeoff and landing was specifically improved. The Do X also had twelve-engine operation refined and additional visual detailing.
• Do 31: Lift-engine operation, hover control and the transition between vertical and forward flight were refined. Microsoft also updated the aircraft's stability system to deliver what it describes as a more realistic VTOL experience.

# Career mode and gameplay AAU6 adds MSFS 2024 career-mode compatibility for eligible configurations. The Junkers F 13 gains a passenger career job plus refined radial-engine characteristics, tailwheel handling and an updated passenger cabin. The Ju 52 received improved three-engine operation, flight and ground handling, cockpit interactions and passenger aircraft integration.

# Availability and pricing

# Context in the update program AAU6 is the most recent AAU for the year and follows earlier AAUs that upgraded other legacy and vintage aircraft. The release completes another scheduled batch of upgrades in Microsoft's ongoing process of migrating older Local Legends to the MSFS 2024 platform.