Join us as we fly from Crater Lake - Klamath Rgnl airport to Gold Beach Muni airport in Oregon.
If you like beautiful crater lakes …
If you like scenic vistas …
If you like exciting canyon runs …
If you like flying under bridges …
If you like landing on sand bars …
Then this is only the tip of the iceberg for this event. Why not join us and experience the excitement and enjoy some friendly discussions.
Details to follow. Hope you can join us.
Regards, Paul
ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …
Group Flight: 2021-08-20T10:00:00Z
PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.
Route: KLMT(Crater Lake - Klamath Rgnl) - 2S7(Chiloquin State) - 64S(Prospect State) - LCL1(Start of 1st Canyon Run) - OG31(Shady Cove Airpark) - 4OR0(Springbrook) - 3S8(Grants Pass) - UP3(Start of 2nd Canyon Run) - OR74(Winkle Bar) -
4S1(Gold Beach Muni).
Take off from KLMT(Crater Lake - Klamath Rgnl)
Track 317 deg to UP1(Upper Klamath Lake) 16.1nm
Track 350 deg to 2S7(Chiloquin State) 11.2nm
Touch and Go at 2S7(Chiloquin State)
Track 318 deg to UP2(Crater Lake) 24nm
Track 218 deg to 64S(Prospect State) 20nm
Touch and Go at 64S(Prospect State)
Track 225 deg to LCL1(Start of first Canyon Run) 0.8nm
Descend into Canyon and follow the river to LCL(Lost Creek Lake)
Track 225 deg to OG31(Shady Cove Airpark) 9.1nm
Touch and Go at OG31(Shady Cove Airpark)
Track 243 deg to 4OR0(Springbrook) 16.9nm
Touch and Go at 4OR0(Springbrook)
Track 236 deg to 3S8(Grants Pass) 8.6nm
Full Stop Landing at 3S8(Grants Pass)
Take Off from 3S8(Grants Pass)
Track 276 deg to UP3(Start of 2nd Canyon Run) 7.2nm
Descend into the Canyon and follow the river to OR74(Winkle Bar)
Touch and Go at OR74(Winkle Bar)
Descend into the Canyon and follow the river to LP1(Sandy Bar)
Full Stop Landing at LP1(Sandy Bar)
Take off from LP1(Sandy Bar)
Follow the river to UP57(End of Canyon Run)
Track 205 deg to 4S1(Gold Beach Muni) 1.2nm
Full Stop Landing at 4S1(Gold Beach Muni)
Altitude: The route can be flown up to 8,500’ to be clear of terrain.
Airport details:
Crater Lake - Klamath Rgnl(KLMT)
Elev: 4,095’
RW 14/32 Asphalt
RW 07/25 Asphalt
Chiloquin State(2S7)
Elev: 4,221’
RW 17/35 Bituminous
Prospect State(64S)
Elev: 2,578’
RW 02/20 Asphalt
Shady Cove Airpark(OG31)
Elev: 1,515’
RW 18/36 Grass
Springbrook(4OR0)
Elev: 1,560’
RW 12/30 Asphalt
Grants Pass(3S8)
Elev: 1,130’
RW 13/31 Asphalt
Winkle Bar(OR74)
Elev: 450’
RW 06/24 Grass
Gold Beach Muni(4S1)
Elev: 21’
RW 16/34 Asphalt
Aircraft: Suggest a low and slow type aircraft like the Cubs. Bush Cubs/planes preferable.
Here is a link to a FREE Cub that would be suitable: https://flightsim.to/file/3723/savage-carbon-stol-realism-mod
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: 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: Discord
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, if the REAL weather is poor:
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 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 …
Important: The plans originally followed the river course but the excessive waypoints caused issues for the sim to maintain the visual track, so I had to enter fewer routing points and rely on people to switch to following the river course where required.
Whether you use Little NavMap or VFR Map to do this is up to you, but you can’t rely on the autopilot for the Canyon Runs. Hand flying is more fun anyway.
Little NavMap:
VFR Crater Lake-Klamath Rgnl (KLMT) to Gold Beach Muni (4S1).lnmpln (4.1 KB)
MSFS:
VFR Crater Lake-Klamath Rgnl (KLMT) to Gold Beach Muni (4S1).pln (4.9 KB)
Print this flight card out for your easy reference during the flight (Note: only available up to the date of the flight):
Event reminder …
