Join us as we take off from Vancouver and track North East to Kamloops. We will conduct a number of touch and goes as we move through the mountains and perform a full stop at Penticton for a short break before continuing on.
Details to follow. Hope you can join us.
Regards, Paul
ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …
Group Flight: 2021-05-28T10:00:00Z
PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.
Route: CYVR(Vancouver Intl) - CYCW(Chilliwack) - CYHE(Hope) - CYDC(Princeton) - CYYF(Penticton) - CYLW(Kelowna) - CZAM(Salmon Arm) - CYKA(Kamloops).
Take off from Vancouver Intl(CYVR)
Track 075 deg to Chilliwack(CYCW) 49nm
Touch and Go at Chilliwack(CYCW)
Track 035 deg to Hope(CYHE) 22nm
Touch and Go at Hope(CYHE)
Track 063 deg to Princeton(CYDC) 39nm
Touch and to at Princeton(CYDC)
Track 073 deg to Penticton(CYYF) 36nm
Full Stop landing at Penticton(CYYF)
Track 359 deg to Kelowna(CYLW) 31nm
Touch and Go at Kelowna(CYLW)
Track 350 deg to Salmon Arm(CZAM) 44nm
Touch and Go at Salmon Arm(CZAM)
Track 254 deg to Kamloops(CYKA) 46nm
Full Stop Landing at Kamloops(CYKA)
Altitude: The route can be flown up to 9,500’ to be clear of terrain.
Airport details:
Vancouver Intl(CYVR)
Elev: 9’
RW 08L/26R Asphalt
RW 08R/26L Asphalt
RW 13/31 Asphalt
Chilliwack(CYCW)
Elev: 30’
RW 07/25 Asphalt
Hope(CYHE)
Elev: 128’
RW 07/25 Asphalt
Princeton(CYDC)
Elev: 2,294’
RW 04/22 Grass
Penticton(CYYF)
Elev: 1,122’
RW 16/34 Asphalt
Kelowna(CYLW)
Elev: 1,393’
RW 16/34 Asphalt
Salmon Arm(CZAM)
Elev: 1,741’
RW 14/32 Asphalt
Kamloops(CYKA)
Elev: 1,131’
RW 09/27 Asphalt
RW 04/22 Asphalt
Aircraft: The following planes are recommended:
SR22 (Cirrus)
B36 (Bonanza)
B58 (Baron)
DA62 (Diamond Twin)
C208 (Caravan)
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:
From the Welcome Screen, click on your Username (top right)
From the list of servers, under Servers, select WEST USA
Turn off Generic Planes: To do this, proceed as follows:
From the Welcome Screen, click on OPTIONS
Click on GENERAL
With TRAFFIC selected, scroll down to the last option and set USE GENERIC PLANE MODELS to OFF
Turning off Crash/Damage:
Select Options/General/Flight Model
Select Legacy Model, so you can adjust the settings below
Move Crash Realism to 0
Select Modern Model, to reselect the appropriate flight model
Accept the settings
Next:
Select Options/Assistance
Expand Failure & Damage
Disable Crash Damage
Accept the changes
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 MSFS, you will need to “react” to get access to the voice rooms.
To “react”, once in the Discord for Official MSFS, 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.
Link to join the Voice Room: https://discord.gg/eYxMA8x8
Note: this link is only valid for 7 days from posting.
Weather/Time: We will set the time to 8am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose CLEAR Weather, so can enjoy the scenery:
From the World Map view, click on Flight Conditions (upper right of screen)
Click on All Players, Live Traffic, Custom
Under Weather and Time, select Clear Weather and move the time slide bar to show 8:00am.
Click Close and Fly from the World Map view.
We can start departing from 10:00z. 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.
Turning on Name Tags (This will assist you in following the group if you get disoriented):
Select Options/GeneralTraffic
Set Show Traffic Nameplates to On
Accept the settings
Still confused, check out the multiplayer video tutorial from SimHangar Flight Simulation: MSFS | MULTIPLAYER | How To Guide | Everything You Need To Know | Fly in events coming soon. - YouTube
Let me know if there’s anything else that I’ve missed that you need to know.,
Regards, Paul
Flight Plans for the event …
Little NavMap:
VFR Vancouver Intl (CYVR) to Kamloops (CYKA).lnmpln (2.3 KB)
MSFS:
VFR Vancouver Intl (CYVR) to Kamloops (CYKA).pln (3.2 KB)
Print this Flight Card out for your easy reference during the flight …
Thanks! I did enjoy last flight (unfortunately couldn´t finish the second leg because I got a CTD!).
Hope to join the Canadian Rockies Experience - a beautiful place.
For a future event allow me to suggest we fly in Norway - it has also many beautiful and challenging airports!
Best
Ega
This will be a must for the Nordic update in June.
Hi Cinnamon, Do I read this correctly that you are planning this flight to be IFR? This seems a bit odd for the T&G profile you have setup. Pls clarify.
G’day, yes it’s a VFR flight with Touch and Goes along the route. We will fly direct to each of the specified waypoints and at some point along the route, you will need to be at 9,500’ to clear the terrain. Elsewhere though, you can fly at a lower elevation to take in the scenery.
I hope this helps. We keep the events very loose and friendly. No strict adherence to flight rules etc.
Regards, Paul.
I understand all the details of the flight. My confusion is that you have shown the flight plan as IFR, rather than VFR. Therein lies the rub, as we say.
I am going to do my best to join in – this is my neck of the world having grown up in Chilliwack and currenyl living in Penticton. Just not entirely sure how conciscous I will be at 3 am…
Interesting, is that in the LittleNavMap plan. It wasn’t intentional.
I just checked my plan. The plan was created using LittleNavMap. It is a VFR plan and loads as such in Little NavMap. When you export the plan to MSFS the plan when loaded shows as IFR Low Level airways. The only VFR options are Direct to or VORs, which aren’t available. In any event, the plan is clearly a VFR flight.
Event reminder …
Hi Paul,
Thought I’ll jump in here.
I had to do this for all our previous flights together. What I did is to open up your littlenavmap flight plan, and select VFR instead of IFR in the drop down option top left of the flight planning page.
Then export it as a MSFS flight plan as per usual, your filename (if left default) will read “VFR…”
This should load up in game as a vfr flightplan…
Hope this helps!
Cheers!
Thanks. The PENNY finally dropped. I have adjusted the flightplans and uploaded them as VFR.
Thanks for your feedback.
Regards, Paul
Thought about joining with an Arrow III, but I guess I’d be too slow for you guys.
Will check if I should give the SR22 a try instead 