We begin our third year offering RealFlight Evolution DLC by announcing the release of both 2025 Quarterly Content Pack 1 and the 2025 Year Content Pass!
2025 Quarterly Content Pack 1
2025 QCP1 includes 6 new aircraft: 4 standard + 2 premium. Clicking the individual links below will take you to the items’ Steam store pages, where you can view pictures and learn more about them.
- E-flite P-51D Mustang 1.0m
- E-flite S.E.5a 900mm
- E-flite Sportix 1.1m
- E-flite UMX Cirrus SR22T
- Hangar 9 J-3 Cub 10cc
- Tower Hobbies Seawind 1.4m
Here is a direct link to the 2025 QCP1 bundle containing all the above items.
QCP1 content requires RF Evo version 10.10.138 or higher, or else it will not appear in the sim. You can check your version number in RealFlight’s About dialog. Please note that this time around, the required update was not published very far in advance of the QCP release, so there is an increased likelihood you will not have it yet and will need to force an update. Doing so is very easy, however. See “How to Get It” at the bottom of the 10.10.138 announcement for instructions.
For those new to RealFlight Evolution or simply needing a refresher, the first DLC release of a new year is a good time to explain some details about what it is and how it works.
DLC defined
DLC stands for Downloadable Content. It is additional content you can purchase for an application you already own.
Standard vs. premium aircraft models
What makes a premium model different from a standard one? In short, a premium model is more work for us to produce meaning you get more as a result. More what? It could be one or more of the following:
- More features – Examples include retracts, flaps, and other articulating components
- More detail – Things like scale details, an unusual or extra-complex design, multiple color schemes, and/or a full cockpit
- More variants – Includes multiple variations such as with and without floats, slats, etc.
How to buy
RealFlight Evolution DLC is available a few different ways.
- Each quarterly batch of content is available in a money-saving bundle. See the QCP1 link above for one example. Each individual item page also contains a link to the bundle that contains it.
- The Year Content Pass is a way to buy all the content for a given year--all 4 Quarterly Content Packs--at an even greater discount. When you purchase it, you get immediate access to any content that has been released so far that year. If any of that year’s quarterly content is still to come, then as it is released it will unlock automatically for you. So, whether you buy it at the beginning of the year, essentially prepurchasing all of that year’s content to come, or hold off and buy it at the end of the year after the final QCP is released and get all the content at once, or anywhere in between, the end result is the same.
- The 2023 and 2024 YCPs are complete and will remain available to purchase for anyone who would like to get all that content at once at the highest possible discount.
- The 2025 YCP is now available and will work just like its predecessors.
- Individual items from the content packs are also available for purchase separately. If you purchase one or more items a la carte and later decide you would like to own the whole pack they came from, you can! The QCP bundle will only charge you for the models you don’t already own, and you’ll pay the discounted bundle price for them. This “complete the set” option is only possible for QCPs (YCPs do not support it).
DLC that you own will appear right alongside all the other models/airports in Evolution. Look for them by name in the selection dialogs or find them with the Quick Load dialog. Also, the main selection menus now offer additional filtering options that include the ability to show only DLC.
Releases Roadmap
As we touched on in the RealFlight Evolution announcement, RF Evo will live in the marketplace for a number of years. DLC offers a way to keep getting more out of RealFlight without the need to upgrade your version every year or two. Software updates will come when they are ready, whereas DLC will release sometime within its given quarter (i.e., Q1: Jan-Mar, Q2: Apr-Jun, Q3: Jul-Sept, Q4: Oct-Dec).