[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Chile (Fiestas Patrias)

[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 and @SimFlightPro
When: Friday, September 19 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-09-19T19:00:00Z
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

Every year starting on September 18, Chileans celebrate Fiestas Patrias, their national holiday. For our community flight this week, we’ll be traveling over this South American country in commemoration of the holiday. Expect to see some beautiful scenery as we take off from the capital of Santiago and then fly northbound up the Pacific coast to Valparaiso, Pichidangui, and La Florida.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-09-19 Chile.PLN (2.4 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 SCEL. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cessna 172, CubCrafts X or NX Cub, Diamond DA40, Pitts Special, Piper PA28 Dakota, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 120+ 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.

[BlackCatsRIP]

Strange … normally believe these times match.

[SeedyL3205]

@BlackCatsRIP

Strange … normally believe these times match.

Hmmm…sometimes the forum software has difficulties with converting the start time to your local time zone, especially around the time when there is a switch to/from Daylight Saving Time, but that shouldn’t happen until November.

In any case, the start time is the same as always and is the one shown in the banner image: 1800 UTC.

[RayGausman]

Week before i noticed same in post

[BlackCatsRIP]

You’re right … appears the time mis-match started last week. Before that seems to match.

[TheBlackWind977]

Yep after a long time away I was going to join last week, but popped in half way through.

[NZBattleYak]

2020 Squadron

[JimOxide]

2020 gang. nice flying

[NeedaRadar]

[Newspawnz]

What a wonderful scenery, awesome flight.

[BlackCatsRIP]

[UnwiredEddie]

That’s a new record for me. 12 airports visited during a community flight (11 active, 1 closed).

I didn’t pay enough attention when approaching the final stop and almost flew through SeedyL. I was on the brink of stalling out but still landed it smooth (enough) and I think I avoided blocking his view (maybe).

[Zed0ck]

[IceManDBB]

Was somhow too slow with the Xcub and bushwheels, so changed aircraft several times. So were a bit late in the end.
Also had a lot more other players in SU4 beta this time. But had to get really close (2nm) to see them and their nameplates.

[ElkanDavid]

As usual a fun community flight! I enjoyed the views of the Chilean mountains. Unfortunately my PC crashed towards the end (not because of the Sim) so I could not take part in the final landing.

[Orbitbold]

Last week I couldn’t get any traffic to show up in the Beta, and quit the event. This week everything worked fine except for the low nameplate view distance.

Watching @IceManDBB change aircraft:

But not noticing for an eternity…

…that he was flying with me! Sorry for the wobbling around!

Beautiful sights the entire way:

I present to you the work of true professionals! To think that I almost blocked @RockingEinar‘s parking position! But thank heavens I saw him in time, so I could park my wrong chopper elsewhere.

Not my work, I only took the pictures:

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[EJNorth7673]

You had quite the speed in the helo! Great fun!

[TheHunDude]

Really enjoyed the Chilean scenery during this flight, loved the mountains and the seaside.

[SparrowJLT]

This one really impressed me with the sceneary.. at least with the afternoon and “few clouds” settings

Shotout to @JimOxide @Groversaurus and @NZBattleYak for tolerating my attempts ar formation for a while.. also to the Raptor guy zooming arround (Corvus, cant find specific name in forum as there are 5 or 6) apreciated for this time lack of @Edorin5981 and @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 in their crazy flying machines