[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: German Unity Day

[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 @Pieter2427
When: Friday, October 3 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-10-03T18:00:00Z
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

Starting in 1949, Germany was divided into two halves, the NATO-aligned Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the Soviet-aligned German Democratic Republic (East Germany). After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, German re-unification was officially ratified on October 3, 1990. This date is now recognized every year as a national holiday in Germany.

To commemorate German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), our flight will begin at Bonn, the former capital of West German, then proceed to Berlin, the former capital of East Germany (and capital of the present unified Germany). En route, we will have touch and go landings at Bielefeld (if it really exists) and Hannover.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-10-03 German Unity Day.PLN (2.6 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 EDDK. 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, Extra 330LT, Joby S4, Pitts Special, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 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.

[CoyoteDutch]

[NewtoniusPie]

I tried my bumble-best too…

[SeedyL3205]

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[ElkanDavid]

As usual a fun community flight! I thought with it being a flight in Germany it would be nice to give the Dornier Seastar a go, no idea until now it is still in development! Looking forward to next week with hot air balloons over Albuquerque.

[UnwiredEddie]

Managed to touch 15 runways, mainly grass strips, during this flight. Probably the most I can do and still consider myself flying with the group. Didn’t leave much time for taking photos so nothing special from me.

[RayGausman]

SAAB 340B fun flight

[IceManDBB]

Only saw 1-2 guys today on SU4 Beta, couldn’t see Peter as well, even though others showed up on the EFB:

Peter should have been right next to me, I could see myself on his stream:

Here others should have been more to the right of the one in front of me:

Also, Bielefeld tried to hide their gliders by putting their heads in the ground.

chose the shortest RW at Hannover

got bored and went into low level to startle some cattle:

quick touch-and-go at Tempelhof

landing at destination

[supertux76]

I got started late due to meetings at work so I never caught up but it was a very cozy night flight.

[Orbitbold]

I couldn’t make it in time and started over 30 minutes late. But with a fast plane and using slew mode, I caught up with the group, and it was a fun flight as usual.

[JimOxide]

Great first fly-in on 2024. Nice to see everyone and not just the ten on 2020

Is it real? lol

The last pic of Seedy before his 1st attempt at flying through the Brandenburg Gate

Sorry for the photo bomb. Hopefully see you all next week

[TheHunDude]

It was a relaxed route during this fly-in until @SeedyL3205 showed that sandwich alignment chart, then things heated up. My girlfriend usually sits next to me and listens to the stream during the community fly-ins while she does crochet, she was listening to the stream this time too and was not happy with some of the opinions about what is a sandwich and what is not.

@SparrowJLT doing some escorting.

[SparrowJLT]

The L-39 for some reason is easier to fly in formation than the Hornet.. apologies to everyone i cut off accidentally trying to rejoin and shotout for “tolerating” the atempts @TheHunDude @JpFlyingHigh @LacLac7777 @SoulSkyline @Groversaurus @SuperAdam1980 and was it Thaddel in the TBM?

And of course our resident non.standard flying machines @Edorin5981 and @HeXtHeLeGeNd318