[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: iniBuilds TriStar Showcase

[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 Steve from iniBuilds
When: Friday, April 17 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2026-04-17T18:00:00Z
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 iniBuilds TriStar Airliner recently released on the in-sim Marketplace, and we’ve been thrilled by the community’s response to this classic trijet from the 1970s!

For our Community Fly-In group flight this week, we’ll be showcasing the TriStar with special guest co-host Steve from iniBuilds who will share lots of great insight about this aircraft. Our flight will be a scenic tour over the US Southwest departing from Palmdale, Calfornia (where the TriStar was assembled between 1968 and 1984) and arriving at Phoenix Sky Harbor International.

Optional Payware Add-on: Participants may choose to purchase the TriStar Airilner add-on by developer iniBuilds from the in-sim Marketplace. 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:
2026-04-17 iniBuilds TriStar Showcase.PLN (1.7 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 KPMD. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: iniBuilds TriStar Airliner, Airbus A320, Boeing 737 MAX, Cirrus VisionJet, Daher TBM 930, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 200 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.

[Newspawnz]

Lovely views

[Orbitbold]

A nice flight once more. I picked a fast aircraft, arrived early at the destination, then changed over to something slower.

[JGL574VRG2]

IniBuilds should share a external online TriStar model with liveries to put it in the community folder, to spot other online users, and I don´t want to flight rightnow airliners, but watch it with quality in the air would be great. This should be a requisite to sell in Marketplace.

Hope to join to one of these Friday flight someday, by the moment a bit “early” for me.

[ElkanDavid]

[SeedyL3205]

As promised during the broadcast, here’s a photo of the tacos I had for lunch.

[SparrowJLT]

Being in 2020 means no Tristar..wich annoys me a lot but nontheless..

So i took a Citation instead of an A320 or A310 (im not big on airliners)

We had @HotwingsNZ in a M339 (i almost took the L-39) Antg01 in a Beech 60 @lwrventures in a F-16A320 , @gotmoney86 in a Rhino @JpFlyingHigh A320, @TheHunDude in an A225 i dont have the model sadly wich would been something to see and @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 DarkStar

Departure with @JpFlyingHigh liveries changing randomly

@HotwingsNZ M339 and @gotmoney86 SuperHornet join alongside @lwrventures extrange F-16 model

Someone definitily got a TCAS advisory

Antg01 “B60T”

And here comes the @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 Darkstar

And arrival

[TheHunDude]

Decided to take the AN-225 for a spin for this event. Unfortunately I rarely have time to fly this plane in the sim and when I do I usually mess up the landing procedure. This time was no exception so in the end I ended up overshooting the airport and crashing the plane. Which means no group photo for me with the fellow 2020 simmers this occasion.