Time for some FUN. Let’s go on SAFARI. We depart from Combolcha (HADC) for a flight to Bahir Dar (HABD) over the African landscape while encountering some of the wild life. Be ready to keep your eyes pealed for Elephants and Girraff. All while taking in the terrain of this beautiful continent.
For this event, we need the flexibility to land anywhere. I suggest a Cub. The Savage Cub is a good selection.
Hope you can join us. See you on SAFARI.
Regards, Paul
ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …
Group Flight: 2021-01-15T09:00:00Z
PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.
Route: HADC (Combolcha) – Dessie Zuriah – Dawunt – Bugna – Blue Nile – HABD (Bahir Dar).
Altitude: The route can be flown at 13,500’ but you can vary the altitude to suite the terrain.
Airport details:
Combolcha (HADC)
Elev: 6,091’
RW 17/35
Bahir Dar (HABD)
Elev: 5,978’
RW 04/22
Aircraft: Select a Cub for the event. Recommend the Savage Cub.
IMPORTANT: In the interest of keeping it REAL, please refrain from selecting inappropriate aircraft, like airliners. This only detracts from the immersion of the flight.
Seeing Aircraft Correctly: You need to do two things to ensure you can see the other pilots in the event and see them in the aircraft they selected.
Select the same server: To do this, proceed as follows:
Turn off Generic Planes: To do this, proceed as follows:
Voice Room: Discord for Official MSFS Community: Event #1 or Event #2 are the voice rooms available to us. I need to see which is available on the day and reserve it. I will be in the room and get it authorised for our use. Just look for my Userid: VHFIB to determine which room to enter. Until the room is open only one person can be in the room. In the past we have needed to use a PTT (push to talk) button. This is no longer required, so you can use voice activated comms. Some people prefer to use their phone or ipad etc for Discord comms.
Note: if you are new to the Discord Server for MS FS, you will need to “react” to get access to the voice rooms.
To “react”, once in the Discord for Official MS FS, click on the Important - Info option and at the very bottom, click on the button (last item at the bottom of the screen) to react and provide access. Note: clicking on the button accepts the conditions etc., which you can read via the available links.
Weather/Time: We will set the time 12hrs prior, i.e., 8am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose CLEAR Weather, so can enjoy the scenery:
We can start departing from 8pm. There will be no need for official radio calls. Lets just have some fun taking in the scenery and the social aspects of the event.
Multiplayer Map: Currently, the VFR map won’t show Live players, so if you get lost, it’s difficult to find where the other flyers are. The free multiplayer map, will show the other players (that are using the map) and allow you to see their heading, speed, altitude and callsign. But it will only show those using the map. The below map tool is excellent but only as good as the volume of people using it.
Not mandatory but if you would like to use this map, see the below for details:
Link to moving map: https://events.flighttracker.tech/ 12 13 23 17 22 32
Once viewing the map, click on Join to download the client that connects MSFS for tracking your flights. Note the .NET Core Windows Runtime requirement that needs installing also.
Let me know if there’s anything else that I’ve missed that you need to know.
Regards, Paul
Flight Plans for the event:
MSFS: SAFARI.PLN (3.0 KB)
Little Nav Map: VFR Combolcha (HADC) to Bahir Dar (HABD).lnmpln (2.2 KB)
Looking great Paul!.
Hopefully will have a new participant joining us on Friday night.
He is a top RC flyer and has just bought MSFS and I’m helping him get set up with it so he can join in with us multiplayer.
the event says 10pm thursday UTC, but the time translator says 9am friday UTC.
Bit confused =)
Sorry. Usual time, I’m trying to adjust.
its ok, just trying to help =)
Thanks for the heads up.
Might try and join this flight ! - time zone suits me for once since I’m in Melbourne, AUS.
Time to grab that safari hat and imagine the thrill of hunting down wild game.
how long does this event run for
im from new Zealand and wondering what time it will be here when the event starts. today is friday at 11.43am as im posting
Usually no more than a couple of hours.
If you can convert to Zulu time, it is at 9:00z 15/1/2021. 9:00z is 8:00pm our time I think you guys are a couple of hours in front of us. We are currently in daylight savings time also. I just checked the current time in Auckland and you are two hours ahead of us. So the event will start at 10:00pm your time and last for around two hours.
thanks for that,ill try join you guys
thanks for the great flight
It was fun finding the animal herds last night Paul.
Thanks for the work you do on putting these together.
Look forward to next week.
