Community Fly-in (Sail-in) for hot air balloons between October 1st and October 8th?

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Hey everybody,

I had a question. I see Microsoft has these community Fly-ins and I have watched it a few times on Twitch.

Now I was wondering if they will create such event for Hot Air Balloons? Cause in the World Photographer there are some photos that require multiple players and it needs to be done on certain time and date.

I noticed this event: [Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Portugal Powered Parachutes

So it came up to my mind about the hot air balloons, would be pretty cool if they would create such event.

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And I once heard a hot air balloon Pilot say: “we don’t fly, we sail on the wind”. So haha, it should be called Community Sail-in instead of Community Fly-in :wink: .. hihi, I think many people then will think we be using boats :smiley:

I hope this is the right place to ask this, or else a moderator can move this topic to the right place.

Thanks!

edit: And yeah, I know, a Fly-in goes from A to B, and with Hot air Balloon you sail on the wind, so maybe boring, but my idea was more that we then all stick above Albuquerque and people can get and make a photo so they get the stars/ bonus objectives done. And if Microsoft creates an event, it will attract more players hopefully.

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Hello @RoachclipNL,

We did exactly this last October:

We posted a highlight video clip on Instagram here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQC9U2uAAzt/

Thanks,
MSFS Team

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Cool!! nice I’ll keep an eye out on the events!

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Hey @SeedyL3205, thanks for the reply! Are you going to create it this year too? Which date? Probably Friday October 2nd?

Thanks!

edit: Never mind, It is called Community Fly-in Friday :stuck_out_tongue: haha, so yeah, probably on a Friday…