Join us as we do some very scenic island hopping across the Caribbean. We begin our flight on the picturesque island of St Barthelemy and drop in on many islands along the way to Le Lamintin. We visit a number of small and large airports one in particular is Princess Juliana Intl, where you can wave to the plane spotters on the beach that frequent the area.
Details to follow. Hope you can join us.
Regards, Paul
ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …
Group Flight: 2021-07-16T10:00:00Z
PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.
Route: TFFJ(St Barthelemy) - TNCM(Princess Juliana) - TNCS(Juancho E Yrauquin) - TNCE(FD Roosevelt) - TKPK(Bradshaw) - TKPN(Vance Winkworth Amory) - TRPG(Osborne) - TAPA(VC Bird) - TFFR(Le Raizet) - TFFM(Marie Galante) - TDPD(Melville Hall) - TFFF(Le Lamentin).
Take off from St Barthelemy(TFFJ)
Track 313 deg to Princess Juliana(TNCM) 17.2nm
Touch and Go at Princess Juliana(TNCM)
Track 209 deg to Juancho E Yrausquin(TNCS) 25nm
Touch and Go at Juancho E Yrausquin(TNCS)
Track 138 deg to FD Roosevelt(TNCE) 16.4nm
Touch and Go at FD Roosevelt(TNCE)
Track 141 deg to Bradshaw(TKPK) 18.6nm
Touch and Go at Bradshaw(TKPK)
Track 145 deg to Vance Winkworth Amory(TKPN) 9.7nm
Touch and Go at Vance Winkworth Amory(TKPN)
Track 152 deg to Osborne(TRPG) 34nm
Touch and Go at Osborne(TRPG)
Track 063 deg to VC Bird(TAPA) 31nm
Full Stop Landing at VC Bird(TAPA)
Take off from VC Bird(TAPA)
Track 178 deg to Le Raizet(TFFR) 55nm
Touch and Go at Le Raizet(TFFR)
Track 163 deg to Marie Galante(TFFM) 28nm
Touch and Go at Marie Galante(TFFM)
Track 200 deg to Melville Hall(TDPD) 19.4nm
Touch and Go at Melville Hall(TDPD)
Track 178 deg to Le Lamentin(TFFF) 60nm
Full Stop Landing at Le Lamentin(TFFF)
Altitude: The route can be flown up to 5,500’ to be clear of terrain.
Airport details:
St Barthelemy(TFFJ)
Elev: 48’
RW 10/28 Cement
Princess Juliana Intl(TNCM)
Elev: 14’
RW 10/28 Asphalt
Juancho E Yrausquin(TNCS)
Elev: 138’
RW 12/30 Asphalt
FD Roosevelt(TNCE)
Elev: 131’
RW 06/24 Bituminous
Bradshaw Intl(TKPK)
Elev: 168’
RW 07/25 Asphalt
Vance Winkworth Amory(TKPN)
Elev: 25’
RW 10/28 Asphalt
Osborne Intl(TRPG)
Elev: 550’
RW 10/28 Asphalt
VC Bird Intl(TAPA)
Elev: 60’
RW 07/25 Asphalt
Le Raizet(TFFR)
Elev: 35’
RW 12/30 Asphalt
Marie Galante(TFFM)
Elev: 19’
RW 09/27 Bituminous
Melville Hall(TDPD)
Elev: 90’
RW 09/27 Asphalt
Le Lamentin(TFFF)
Elev: 16’
RW 10/28 Asphalt
Aircraft: The following planes are recommended:
Any aircraft that has a minimum speed of 150knots.
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/pKqENhYX
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
Print this flight card out for your easy reference during the flight (Note: only available up to the date of the flight):
Flight Plans for the event …
Little NavMap:
VFR St Barthelemy I (TFFJ) to Le Lamentin (TFFF).lnmpln (3.3 KB)
MSFS:
VFR St Barthelemy I (TFFJ) to Le Lamentin (TFFF).pln (4.6 KB)
Event reminder …
Excellent route, thanks !
Don’t want to sound repetitive, but thanks so much for your efforts putting together great flights for a great bunch of companions. I really appreciate it and look forward to all your flights.
Pic supplied by WOZ.
5:00 am in Kentucky came Pretty Early but it was Absolutely worth it. Really enjoyed the event and look forward to next week.
This was so fun, through beautiful scenery I would not normally fly through by myself! Thank you for organising!
Apologies I flew with the F22 - I’m a casual flyer and wanted to make sure I could catch up with everyone as I could not get multiplayer to work for about half an hour.
I also ran out of fuel about 500m away from Marie Galante Airport. This is someone else flying over my F22. 
I kept getting kicked out of the MS Discord and audio too. Anyone know why? Every session would only last 10 minutes so I flew without audio most of the time.
Looking forward to the next one!
