[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Football Fever

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 PC, Xbox, and PS5 platforms.

Hosted by @SeedyL3205
When: Friday, June 5 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2026-06-05T18:00:00Z
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

The FIFA World Cup, the largest global sporting event, kicks off next week! :soccer_ball: To celebrate the beautiful game, our flight will begin in Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s host cities for the 2026 World Cup. From there, we’ll make our way to Mexico City where the opening ceremonies and first match of the tournament between Mexico and South Africa will occur on June 11.

Be sure to show your national pride and use a livery representing your country’s colors for this Community Fly-In event!

Optional Marketplace Add-on: Simmers may choose to use the Mexico City Landmarks add-on by developer FLYMEX SOFTWARE. This purchase is entirely optional and is not required to join this fly-in.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2026-06-05 Football Fever.PLN (2.1 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 MMGL. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cirrus SR22T, Diamond DA62, Extra 330, Pitts Special, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 140 knots or greater.

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.

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The airports are available for 2020, and seem to work well enough in 2024. Although there might be some glitches with buildings, as generic buildings might still be present and overlapp the bespoke ones (especially on MMMM, sadly the main terminal :frowning:).

There’s also a Mexico City Scenery enhancement. Not really working in 2024, with some inception style glitches going on:

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2020 Crew

@Edorin5981 @JpFlyingHigh @SparrowJLT @wahlaitoi antg01 @TheHunDude @Groversaurus (AKA SurlyDev)

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Zipped around some BTR landmarks today in the L39, so not much formation flying.

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Today’s flight was so much fun! Thank you everyone!

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Cattle on the runway at MMMM! :cow_face::cow:

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To try some new stuff i took the chance to take out the fantastic free T-37 Tweet thats arround..

Starring @Edorin5981 in Pelican, @JpFlyingHigh BE36, @Nikrath return in a Ornitocopterthing , @wahlaitoi TBM, Antg01 BE60 , @Groversaurus Drone thing that showed as the generic Bonanza and i think was @TheHunDude in a DC3 that for some reason showed too as a Bonanza (despite me having the included DC3 in game)

So departure

As com during chat i did had a cat in the right seat..

@TheHunDude ? (sorry if mistaken) DC3

@Edorin5981 Pelican

@Groversaurus Drone thingy

@JpFlyingHigh BE36

@wahlaitoi TBM

And the glorious return of @Nikrath Ornithopter

an unscheduled rainbow

And final arrival

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It was a nice route last week, live weather was OK for the most part, unfortunately there were thick rainclouds over Mexico City so I didn’t see anything from the place.

My country’s football team did not make it to the World Cup but I chose a custom DC-3 livery which would represent my country: a Lisunov Li-2 livery with the Hungarian registration HA-LIX. (The Li-2 is the license-built Soviet version of the DC-3.) The real world counterpart of this plane is the only airworthy Li-2 in the world.

So @SparrowJLT , probably this is the reason why the DC-3 did not show up properly for you. :slightly_smiling_face:

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And here are nother few photos and finally the video :slight_smile:




Video:

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The weird thing is that if thats “just” a livery usually MSFS should portray the DC-3 in a generic default livery if i dont have a custom one.. thats how it works for other planes usually.. touight i seen weirder stuff like F-18Es portrayed as a Bonanza when they are a core plane