Flying Fries’ Hughes XF-11 WWII reconnaissance aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 has been updated to version 2.0.1, featuring several fixes and changes.
This new v2.0.1 update features a new custom sound pack including a realistic engine and cockpit sounds improving the audio experience, a noise reduction option has also been added. The XF-11 has also received new interior and exterior model geometry, new custom lighting effects, new texturing, and new cockpit objects and items, other new animations have been added including “Remove Before Flight” tags, cockpit canopy open and closing visuals and more.
The full changelog can be found below.

You can download the new update from Orbx Central.
If you do not own the Flying Fries Hughes XF-11 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 & 2024, you can purchase it from Orbx Direct for $41.50 AUD (Approx US$26.38 | €25.21 | £20.89) here.
Changelog
- Complete custom sound pack
- Noise reduction option on clipboard
- Custom pilot (Howard Hughes) and navigator/photographer 3D models
- New and animated “Remove Before Flight” tags and ribbons on various exterior covers
- Exterior geometry refined: smoother main fuselage and cowl flaps
- Added geometry and refined textures to many existing interior objects
- Fuel Truck completely re-textured
- Fix transparency issue with undercarriage objects
- Fix Z-fighting between glass and windshield materials
- Interior textures fixes (Ambient Occlusion dark spots, dirt/dust/metallic maps, etc.)
- New interior objects to be found!
- New interactions: you can eat/drink the content of the food basket
- New cockpit buttons to switch between your pilot POV and the nose canopy POV
- Replaced all Asobo light effects with custom light effects
- Exterior lights visible from a greater distance
- Canopy remount “animation” visually improved
- Minor adjustments to cameras (initial PBH)
- Code optimization: a more modern and optimized version of starting scripts
- User manual updated