Coastal Carolina | North Carolina | Grand Caravan

Coastal Carolina
When: Wednesday, October 21st @ 7PM ET/11PM Zulu
Where: YouTube -> http://bit.ly/CoastalNC (Discord: https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs )
Plane: Cessna Grand Caravan
Duration: About 1.5 to 2 hours

There will also be a Discord event channel open for those who want to voice chat. -> https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs

FLIGHT DETAILS

This mid-week flight will have us flying over the Outer Banks of North Carolina and stopping at short runways on the grass, concrete and sand! There are a couple of stops that aren’t marked on the map that we will visit, including a military training field and a golf course.

Shoutout goes to Bingdinger, who created the flight plan and will be able to explain some interesting things about the area.

We will be landing at each airstrip in the flight plan and a couple that are not mapped.

Start: Topsail Airpark (01NC)
Destination: First Flight (KFFA)

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FLIGHT PLAN
Coastal Carolina - Caravan.PLN (4.1 KB)

To use the flight plan, follow these steps:

-Download the flight plan to an easy-to-remember location
-Open MSFS
-Go to the globe
-Click “Load/Save” on the bottom of your screen
-Click “Load”
-Navigate to the downloaded flight plan
-Click load.

WEATHER
We will use custom weather.

MULTIPLAYER SETTINGS
Please adhere to the following settings so you can see everyone / be seen by everyone.

Variable - Setting
Server SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Multiplayer All
Live traffic As desired
Weather Few Clouds

COMMUNICATION
To communicate with others, a voice channel on the "Sizzling Nation Discord” at https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs will be available to join. You can also follow along, with a slight delay, through the YouTube stream: http://bit.ly/CoastalNC .

It is advised in this flight to turn off both aircraft collisions and terrain collisions. If you do crash, you can use the “slew” mode to join the pack.

This is event is open to everyone of all skill levels and is meant to be a fun event to meet other sim pilots.

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This is going to be my first multiplayer event. Looking forward to it.

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Glad to have you join! I’ve created a #how-to-join channel in the Discord to help you out. We’ll be 20-30+ sim pilots of various ages and experience.

Gonna be awesome. We will be flying by my house on this trip. Hope we don’t get in trouble for landing at the military training field…

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Question: What should I do if I fall behind the pack and want to catch up with everyone? What should I do if I’m late for the event and get a late start?

Answer: You can slew your aircraft by hitting the “Y” key, then F4 tf you want to gain altitude, and num pad 8 to slew forward. Check your keyboards num lock if it doesn’t work.

Alternatively, just speak up in the voice channel and someone will give you the next airport’s ICAO code.

At each stop we will wait for everyone to catch up with the pack and land before proceeding together.

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Why do we fly on the Southeast Asia server?

It’s proven itself to be very reliable for our group, and we have members from all over the planet… It’s literally on the other side of the globe from me, my ping to it is horribad, but it doesn’t seem to matte r because it’s buttery smooth for us all.

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Many in our group are using the Caravan 208b mod and the Garmin 1000 mod.

Caravan 208b mod, https://github.com/Dros0phila/C208-MSFS2020-Fix

Garmin 1000 mod, Release: Working Title G1000 v0.3 (1.9.3.0 compatible) - updated to v0.3.1 on 5 Oct!

It’s worth noting that the default Caravan has a bug which gives it “ghost spoilers” the real aircraft is not supposed to have. You’ll notice atrocious flight performance that will go away when you hit “retract spoilers”. This is fixed in the mod.

More info on spoiler bug, https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/j57bwv/alert_beware_that_caravan_has_an_invisible/

Some are experiencing a de-icing bug, Cessna C208 anti-ice switch bug