[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Angola

[SeedyL3205]

We will be hosting an Official Fly-in alongside a group of community members (you!) on Twitch. This is an open event, free to all who would like to fly along with us and available to pilots of all skill levels. The goal is to have a great time, explore new locations of the world, and make new friends. This event is open to pilots on both sim versions (MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024) and both the PC and Xbox platforms.

Hosted by @SeedyL3205 @TheCowTown
When: Friday, February 27 @ 1900Z for two hours.
2026-02-20T19:00:00Z
Where: The Official Twitch Channel of MSFS

There will also be a Discord event channel open for those who want to voice chat with other members of the community.

Please see below for details on the upcoming Fly-In Event:

FLIGHT DETAILS

We’re off to Africa this week for a picturesque flight in Angola! Starting in Benguela on the coast of the South Atlantic, we’ll make our way generally northbound for a touch & go landing at Waku Kungo and then a full stop at the capital city of Luanda.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2026-02-27 Angola.PLN (2.0 KB)

MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC, PS5, and Xbox can import the flight plan from the new Flight Planner tool at this link.

You can find instructions on how to load a flight plan from the Flight Planner website to your in-sim EFB on your PC or PS5/Xbox console on our forums here.

We will be starting at FNBG. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Beechcraft Baron, Beechcraft Bonanza, Cessna C400 Corvalis TT, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 170+ knots.

MULTIPLAYER SETTINGS

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

Variable	Setting
Server	SE Asia
Multiplayer	All Players
Live traffic	As preferred
Weather	Few Clouds
Time of Day	Daytime

COMMUNICATION

To communicate with others, a voice channel on the "Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Discord” at https://discord.gg/msfs will be available to join.

LET’S FLY

This is meant to be a fun and informal flight. Everybody is welcome, no matter your platform, sim version, or level of experience.

[cabbepe]

Wil a DC-3 or a C182RG be sufficient?

[LutzLange]

I don’t think the Cessna 182RG (which, incidentally, is also my favourite aircraft) or the DC-3 can reach the recommended 170 kt. But that shouldn’t be a problem. You’ll just have to fly behind…

[cabbepe]

I did a test with the default PC 12 NGX starting from FNBG and it worked perfectly then. So I’ll go for the PC12.

[LutzLange]

I’ll go for the Corvalis. The PC-12 is also a very good aircraft and definitely fast enough.

[Groversaurus]

@SparrowJLT @Edorin5981

[Groversaurus]

Now we have a @HeXtHeLeGeNd318

[Groversaurus]

@TheHunDude joined us

[UnwiredEddie]

Flew a little apart from the pack again this week. Having fun trying to find interesting landmarks and features from Bing maps to make my own flight plans while not straying too far.

[IceManDBB]

Only saw 3 other players in the SU5 beta today.

[IceManDBB]

vids of the touch down and landing with @Orbitbold :

[Orbitbold]

A nice flight once more, apart from only seeing two other participants as I’m in the Beta.

I changed aircraft, from the Corvalis to the L-39, at FNWK because I wanted to weasel around the track a bit without getting behind. I arrived early, took a break and then took off again to escort @IceManDBB into the destination.

@IceManDBB

[…] and landing with @Orbitbold

What you’re looking at there is my attempt to slow down my Pocket Jet too close to your final approach speed, thus rapidly starting to fall off the wrong end of a handful of curves and performance envelopes, whereupon the throttle was slammed forward and the gear raised, while I maintained a highly optimistic angle of attack and verbally proclaimed something less than profound.

Should have gone around a bit earlier.

[SparrowJLT]

L-39 day … and this time we had quite a few crowd

We had @Edorin5981 @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 @Groversaurus @JpFlyingHigh @PowerCreep @TheHunDude and @Chladic88 bringing back the ornitothingy

@TheHunDude P-40F wich i dont have the model but formation nontheless

@Groversaurus really pretty VisionJet

Some with them and @Edorin5981

And then @Chladic88 and @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 joined to close the cool 2020 “aircraft” trio

Final aproach to Luanda

And photo finish-es

Tomcat chiling in the back seat

[TheHunDude]

Had a nice flight last week, it was my first flight in Angola like for many fellow simmers. Tried to join the formation flying with @SparrowJLT , @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 , @Edorin5981 and @Groversaurus with some success, I was rubberbanding back and forth because I couldn’t find the right speed. Also my touch-and-go was more like a bouncing-and-go in the P-40F because I have a hard time landing with taildraggers. But my landing at our destination went quite smoothly, I was quite satisfied with that.