[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Caribbean Island Hopping

[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, @JoeyBolo77, and @NickFlightX
When: Friday, July 25 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-07-25T18:00:00Z
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

This week, we’re off to the sunny Caribbean Sea to island hop across several scenic destinations, including a longtime favorite of both flight simmers and real-life aviation fans, Princess Juliana International (TNCM)!

The flight will also see us attempt a full stop landing at the world’s shortest commercial runway in Saba (TNCS)!

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-07-25 Caribbean Island Hopping.PLN (3.0 KB)

MSFS 2024 Pilots on both PC 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 Xbox console on our forums here.

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

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, Cirrus SR22T, Diamond DA62, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of about 150 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.

[NewtoniusPie]

“EZ PZ”

[Newspawnz]

Another great fly-in, thanks for everyone flying along and to @IceManDBB for rocking the wings

[ElkanDavid]

A fun community flight! The Caribbean look great in the sim

[IceManDBB]

This was a good one, even though I somhow hit an invisible wall at full speed between the last 2 islands and got thrown around in my motion rig.

Also, I never tuched a runway this flight. Take offs, touch-n-gos and final landing was water.

Everyone lined up nicely:

Shortly after this I hit an invisble wall in the air at full speed and tumbled down, was able to start again though. Scared the sh*t out of me in the motion rig.

The detail just under the water was kinda fascinating.

[Orbitbold]

A great Fly-In again, thanks everyone!

This was my very first time flying the Pilatus PC-12. That was, of course, a painfully stupid idea: to take a completely unfamiliar plane to Saba, of all places.

While I usually post a few screenshots, I’m unable to do so this time, because I unfortunately overran the runway in Saba, and crashed and burned and died.

Oh. Wait. That only happened in the sim. Thank heavens!

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I like the PC-12 a lot. It’s like mix of a small airliner and a bush plane.

Special mention: @IceManDBB in that ridiculously beautiful bay.

[supertux76]

Another fun fly-in Friday! I tried to fly the Starship today but had multiple issues right off the bat with it so I opted for the TBM 930 instead which was capable enough for me to catch up with the pack.

[IceManDBB]

“Like a glove!”

[IceManDBB]

And a landing from @Energyzer9301:

[TheHunDude]

Thanks for the event, I really like it when we are visiting special places like Saba. I am pretty sure if it wasn’t for this event, I would have never visited that airport (or even know about it). Also shout-out to @SparrowJLT for being my wingman for a time, it was quite cool.

[SparrowJLT]

Thanks @TheHunDude.. fortunatelly i got a few screenshots from my side

[SparrowJLT]

And sice we are here posting more screenshots