Aussie Group Flights Team: Ice Pilots Sched Run

For all those Ice Pilots fans out there, let’s use the recently added DC3, with the Buffalo livery (see below) to recreate Joe’s sched run from Yellow Knife to Hay River, drop off our passengers and then return to Yellow Knife.

Never heard of Ice Pilots, check out: Only DC-3 Passenger Flight In the World's Head Pilot Suspended | Ice Pilots NWT | Wonder - YouTube

Suggested Addons:

Buffalo Livery: Douglas DC-3 in Buffalo Airways C-GPNR Livery - Includes GPS Version!! » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Hay River: Hay River Merlyn Carter Airport CYHY » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Yellowknife (Payware): Project MAX » CYZF - Yellowknife International Airport » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Details to follow. Hope you can join us.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS INFORMATION IS FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION USE ONLY.

Regards, Paul

ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …

Group Flight: 2022-12-20T10:00:00Z

PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.

Route: Yellowknife(CYZF) Hay River(CYHY) Yellowknife(CYZF).

Take off from Yellowknife(CYZF)
Track 105 deg to Hay River(CYHY) 105nm
Full Stop Landing at Hay River(CYHY) +++ 10min Break +++
Take off from Hay River(CYHY)
Track 285 deg to Yellowknife(CYZF) 105nm
Full Stop Landing at Yellowknife(CYZF).

Altitude: To Hay River: 8,500’
To Yellowknife: 7,500’.

Airport details

Yellowknife(CYZF)
Elev: 675’
RW 16/34 Asphalt
RW 10/28 Asphalt

Hay River(CYHY)
Elev: 541’
RW 14/32 Asphalt
RW 05/23 Asphalt

Aircraft: DC3.

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/Assistance
Expand Failure & Damage
Disable Crash Damage
Disable Aircraft Stress Damage
Disable Engine Stress Damage
Accept the changes

Voice Room: My personal Discord server is used for voice comms. If you haven’t already joined my server, click on the below link to request access. I will set you up as a Member so you can access the server. Ensure you do this prior to the flight, as latecomers will need to wait for the next event.

Link to join the Voice Room: Aussie Group Flights Team - On-line Flying

Note: this link is only valid for 7 days from posting.

Weather/Time: We will set the time to 10am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose REAL weather so that the winds are correct.

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 Live Weather and move the time slide bar to show 10:00am. 
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 Points of Interest

Select Options/Assistance
Expand POI
Set Landmark Markers to ON
Set City Markers to ON
Set Airport Markers to ON
Accept the changes

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 Yellowknife (CYZF) to Hay River (CYHY).lnmpln (1.3 KB)

MSFS: VFR Yellowknife (CYZF) to Hay River (CYHY).pln (1.5 KB)

Charts for the event …

Charts are no longer available do to copyright restrictions.

Note: There is no requirement to use the supplied charts. Simple visual takeoffs and landings are fine.

Event reminder …

Yellowknife is a cool place to fly out of … actually it’s FROZEN. See you at 0930z for wheels up at 1000z.