JustSim Nice Côte d'Azur: the most complete LFMN in MSFS is frozen in June 2025

There is a tram at Nice. Line 2 runs from the city out to Terminal 2, on to Terminal 1, and JustSim built it — track, platforms, two trains that come and go on a schedule. The reviewer at X-PlaneReviews confessed in August 2025 to standing on that platform for far longer than a scenery review requires. It is the tell. Somebody at this studio went and modelled the airport tram, and the fire station garage interior, and the road tunnel under the western taxiways, and static people standing around the cargo terminal doing cargo-terminal things.

Now the other fact. On 13 April 2026 Nice Côte d'Azur opened a 23,058 square-metre extension to Terminal 2 — six new boarding gates, thirty-six check-in desks, capacity up from 14 to 18 million a year, Prince Albert II of Monaco at the ribbon. It is the biggest thing to happen to the airport since Terminal 2 itself opened in 1992. This scenery does not have it. It cannot have it: the last update JustSim shipped for the MSFS 2024 version was v2.3.2 on 26 June 2025, ten months before the builders handed the pier over.

So you are choosing between the most thoroughly built LFMN in Microsoft Flight Simulator and the most current one, and they are not the same product. France VFR's €9.90 Nice, out since 8 July 2026, has the new pier and better ground textures and covers both simulators on one purchase. JustSim's has the interiors, the landside, the tunnel, the tram and animated ramp traffic, costs €20.88 with French VAT on top of simMarket's listed net figure, and has to be bought twice if you fly both sims.

The tempting conclusion is that JustSim have walked away. They have not. They shipped an X-Plane 12 rebuild of this very airport on 15 August 2025, updated Luxembourg on 29 July 2025, updated Hamburg on 11 December 2025, and released a ground-up Düsseldorf NG on 20 August 2026. Nice is not abandoned. It is simply not next.

We read twenty-six sources for this: both simMarket listings and their rating spreads, the in-sim Marketplace listing, a price-comparison index, three written reviews across two simulators, seven forum threads on the official MSFS forums, the developer's own trailer, six press posts, a third-party GSX profile page, a version tracker and the airport's own announcement of the extension. Reddit is blocked in this environment, so the usual sentiment-at-a-glance check is missing — which matters more than usual here, because the formal record on this product is thin.

What you are actually buying

Two products, sold separately, from one store.

SKU	Store	Price	Size	Last updated
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport MSFS24	simMarket	€17.40 net / €20.88 inc. 20% VAT	2.71 GB	v2.3.2, 26 June 2025
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport NG Series MSFS20	simMarket	€17.40 net / €20.88 inc. 20% VAT	2.87 GB	v2.2.0, 23 June 2024
Nice Côte d'Azur NG Series (MSFS 2020)	In-sim Marketplace	$12.49	—	24 June 2024
Upgrade, MSFS20 owner → MSFS24	simMarket	€5.00	—	—
Upgrade, legacy FSX/P3D/X-Plane owner → MSFS24	simMarket	€12.00	—	—

On the €17.40. That is the figure simMarket shows an unresolved session, and simMarket's terms say displayed prices "include the respectively applicable value added tax" — which for a session it cannot place is zero. Add French VAT and you get €20.88, the number FSNews quoted on release day and the number simFlight's own reviewer printed as "EUR 17.40 (+tax EU customers)". Any comparison against a store that displays tax-inclusive prices is not like-for-like until you do that sum.

On the two SKUs. Buying the MSFS 2020 version does not get you the MSFS 2024 one. FSNews said so plainly on 5 March 2025: the developer chose separate releases over a free update. The upgrade is €5.00 and it is applied automatically if you are logged into the account that bought the first one. The MSFS 2020 listing now carries its own warning — "Do not use this scenery for MSFS 2024, its dedicated version is available here" — so the cheap in-sim Marketplace copy at $12.49 is not a way into MSFS 2024 by the back door. For MSFS 2024, simMarket is the only shop.

In the box: full custom rebuilds of Terminal 1, Terminal 2, the business aviation terminal, the cargo area, the tower complex, the fuel farm, the fire station and the multi-storey car parks; modelled interiors for Terminal 2, the fire station garage and the control tower; the working Line 2 tram; animated buses, fire trucks and fuel trucks on the service roads; animated jetways; static figures scattered across the whole field rather than just the terminal halls; the road tunnel under the western end; and custom models replacing several of Asobo's photogrammetry buildings along the northern boundary. It is a full replacement airport, not an overlay — if you still have the World Update 4 handcrafted LFMN active you will get duplicated buildings, and you remove one of them in the content manager.

Not in the box, despite the feature list: the GSX Pro profile. That is a link in the store description to a Yandex Disk folder, and one simMarket customer publicly could not find it on 8 September 2025. The profile most people actually use is a free third-party one by JBXProfiles on flightsim.to, uploaded 24 February 2024, last touched 1 October 2024, past 4,000 downloads.

What the community consistently praises

The modelling, first and without dissent. Rick Desjardins, reviewing the MSFS version for simFlight on 8 March 2024, said he could not find anything negative and called it one of the best payware airports then available for MSFS. Patrik Šaray at FSNews, three weeks earlier on 18 February 2024, was nearly as warm. Stephen at X-PlaneReviews gave the sibling X-Plane 12 build five stars on 21 August 2025 and put it a level above everything in that simulator except X-Codr's Denver. Three reviewers, two simulators, eighteen months apart, all saying the same thing about the same model set.

The landside. This is where JustSim wins the argument against its cheaper rival, and it is not close. JakTrax78, comparing the two on the official MSFS forums on 14 July 2026: "Landside is a different story and it's a clear win for JustSim." He repeated it two days later. Car parks with 3D cars, the Novotel and Ibis complex, the Parc Phoenix greenhouse, plaza furniture, signage, the tram. France VFR does not attempt most of it.

The interiors. Terminal 2's rotunda and departures hall are modelled properly, with check-in desks, people and a coffee franchise. So is the fire station garage and the tower cab. Šaray singled out the T2 interior detail; Desjardins said walking it felt like being there. LukG8843, who owns both Nice sceneries, put it simply on 14 July 2026: the interior is "definitely another plus point for Justsim".

The ground markings. atcogl — a consistent critic of the developer elsewhere in the same thread — gave JustSim the one thing Asobo's handcrafted version misses: full touchdown zone markings on both runways. Stephen found the same in X-Plane, down to modelled tar repairs and rubber deposits with PBR response.

Night lighting. Šaray called it a huge leap forward from JustSim's earlier work, driven by custom dynamic lights. Stephen went further and called the X-Plane version's terminal lighting perfect, inside and out. JakTrax78's read from the side-by-sides was more measured — about level with France VFR, possibly a touch overdone, but the blue rim on the rotunda concourse is right and France VFR's is not. The 20 June 2025 update added lighting to the passenger gates and to the taxiway information signs, which were both missing at launch.

Performance. Every source that mentions it says the same. Šaray held 45 fps on mid-range hardware with a demanding aircraft. Desjardins reported no measurable cost from the interiors. A poster in the older JustSim-versus-DeimoS thread picked JustSim specifically for better texture quality at lower frame cost.

What keeps coming up as a problem

The Terminal 2 extension is not there. Still open, and the reason to hesitate. LukG8843 checked JustSim's changelog on 14 July 2026 and found no mention of it in the MSFS 2024 version either. He is right, and the dates make it certain: the last MSFS 2024 update predates the opening by ten months. What is present instead is worth stating precisely, because our own earlier review of the France VFR scenery said JustSim "ships the airport as it stood before the builders arrived" — that is not quite right. The X-Plane 12 build of this same airport, from August 2025, models the site as an active construction zone, cranes and site vehicles included, and describes the jetty being built there in real-world detail. We could not confirm the same treatment frame-by-frame in the MSFS 2024 build, and no reviewer has photographed that corner of the field in it. Either way, what a 2026 pilot taxis to is not what this scenery shows.

The heliport. Still open. Nice runs one of Europe's busiest scheduled helicopter operations, seven minutes to Monaco. A simMarket customer, Thomas, on 8 June 2026: there is a heliport that is part of LFMN and it is not really modelled here, and he wished JustSim would fix it. That is a real gap at this airport, and it is the one area where the €9.90 competitor is specifically praised.

"Very samey, very average." atcogl, 13 July 2026, on the official forums: if you have one JustSim airport you kind of have all of them, they are always better than default but never close to the better developers. This is the most serious criticism in the record and it comes from someone who owns the product. It sits directly against three glowing written reviews, and both readings are defensible — the modelling is genuinely good and the asset vocabulary is genuinely reused.

Small accuracy misses. JakTrax78, 14 July 2026, spotted that the flagpoles along the western portion of T2's roof are missing. The animated ramp traffic, which JustSim has and France VFR does not, turns out on inspection to be unbranded passenger Cobuses and little else — the same assets as JustSim's Rhodes.

Launch bugs, fixed. Pink tree textures along the roads were reported by Mattius88 on 2 March 2025, the day the MSFS 2024 version went on sale; JustSim had fixed them by 6 March. Missing object animations and unlit gates and signs were fixed on 20 June 2025. A simMarket customer on 4 March 2025 specifically complimented the speed of the texture fix. When JustSim are working on this airport, they are quick.

The store listing has been wrong before. In May 2024 the in-sim Marketplace entry for this airport carried Larnaca's product description. Neknerf7608 reported it on 28 May; Microsoft's marketplace team said they would work with JustSim; it was corrected by 13 June 2024.

The record is thin, and that is a finding. Three ratings on the MSFS 2024 listing — two fives and a four, an average of 4.67 rather than the 5 the page prints. Six on the MSFS 2020 listing, averaging 4.17 against the 4 shown. The one large sample is the in-sim Marketplace: 3.9 from 43 ratings, and the spread is the interesting part — 53% five stars, but 14% one star. There is no independent video review of the NG series on YouTube in either simulator. The only Nice video from JustSim is their own trailer, on 3,400 views since early 2024.

Performance and stability

This is the strongest part of the record and the least disputed. Nice is a hard place to render — coastal photogrammetry, dense Riviera sprawl, terrain rising immediately behind the field — and every reviewer who measured it found JustSim's airport cheap for what it puts on screen. Šaray's 45 fps on mid-range hardware, with interiors loaded, is the concrete number. Desjardins found the modelled interiors and the field-wide static figures cost nothing he could see. VR is explicitly supported and was part of the original NG pitch.

The caveat is disk and load, not frames: 2.71 GB, and one of the two known stability reports is about loading. Ijonesfr, 11 March 2025, could not get LFMN to load from the world map at all. The thread established it was a simulator-side bug affecting medium and large airports generally, with zooming the map out until the airport icons vanish as the workaround — not JustSim's fault, and TenPatrol linked the matching first-party bug report. The other is the World Update 4 duplication, which is a housekeeping problem: JustSim's exclusion rectangle predates Asobo's handcrafted LFMN, so you remove one of the two.

Nothing in the record describes a crash, a CTD or a broken flight caused by this scenery.

Who should buy it

If you fly MSFS 2024, want Nice, and care more about the terminal you are parked at than the pier you are not, buy it. The interiors, the landside and the tram are real and nobody else has them. Expect €20.88 with VAT, and expect to be looking at the 2025 airport.

If you already own the MSFS 2020 NG version and have moved to MSFS 2024, take the €5.00 upgrade. At that price the question does not arise. Do it from the account that made the original purchase or the discount will not apply.

If you want Nice as it is today, do not buy this. Buy France VFR's for €9.90. It has the April 2026 pier, better airside ground textures by the consensus of everyone who has compared them, and it covers MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 on one licence. You give up the interiors, the tunnel, the tram and the animated ramp.

If you fly helicopters to Monaco, do not buy this. The heliport is the weakest area of an otherwise thorough airport, and a paying customer said so in June 2026.

If you already own several JustSim airports and have found them interchangeable, do not buy this. atcogl's complaint is the one you would make, and nothing here will change your mind.

If you are waiting for a flagship, wait. Inibuilds have confirmed a popular French airport in active development and, as atcogl noted on 15 July 2026, access restrictions make Charles de Gaulle unlikely. Nice is a plausible guess. Neither payware option today is a flagship.

Where it stands today

Seventeen months after release, JustSim's Nice is in the odd position of being both the better-built airport and the wrong one. It wins on everything a developer does once and keeps: the modelling, the interiors, the landside, the tram, the tunnel, the clutter, the frame cost. It loses on the one thing a developer has to keep doing, which is turning up again when the real airport changes. A scenery that was clearly the best Nice available in March 2025 became, on 13 April 2026, a scenery of a Nice that no longer exists.

We should correct something we implied ourselves. Reviewing France VFR's Nice, we wrote that JustSim's had not been updated in over a year and left the impression of a studio that had gone quiet — an impression JakTrax78 voiced outright on 16 July 2026 when he said JustSim might be defunct. On the narrow fact we were right: 26 June 2025 to today is fourteen months. On the inference we were wrong, and so was he. JustSim shipped the X-Plane 12 Nice on 15 August 2025, Luxembourg updates on 29 July 2025, Hamburg v1.5.0 on 11 December 2025, and a complete Düsseldorf NG rebuild on 20 August 2026. The studio is working. Nice is just not what it is working on.

Which leaves the buyer with a clean choice rather than a trap. Twenty-one euros for the most completely realised Nice anyone has built, frozen in June 2025; ten for the one that matches the airport, on both simulators, with less inside it. Neither is a bad purchase. If JustSim brings this one forward — and their NG programme is plainly still running — the calculation flips overnight, because everything else here is already better.