[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Northern Lights in Norway

[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, @AlyKatz, @SimFlightPro
When: Friday, February 21 @ 1900Z for two hours.
2025-02-21T19:00:00Z
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

One of the new features introduced with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is an accurate depiction of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) when and where they are visible in the real world. For our Fly-In this week, we’re venturing to the frigid shores of the Barents Sea in Northern Norway in search of aurora!

As always, this event is open to pilots flying on MSFS (2020) as well, and even though you won’t see the Northern Lights, you’ll still be able to enjoy Norway’s fantastic scenery.

MSFS (2020) Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-02-21 Norway.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 ENHV. 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, CubCrafters X or NXCub, De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, Diamond DA-40, Flight Design CTSL, JMB VL-3, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of ~110 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.

[RigorMortice]

This looks great but if the flight is set to be in the day time will there be any northern lights to see?

[TheSupercalle]

It’s night time in local time

[kenniekayoz]

Did the flight, didn’t see Northern Lights, but it could be a glitch that affected something else too since when your preloaded pilot doesn’t load properly he sticks 90% of his body out of the cockpit like he’s Dino from the Flintstones

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - Flight 10

[RigorMortice]

Settings say daytime. Not local time. I’m sure most people realised though.

[TheSupercalle]

Ah yes, that’s probably just copy pasted from all the other flights which are done in daytime. But it’s something that can be adjusted on the fly so it’s not a big deal.

[SnoopierTunic30]

I did the flight as a test and had major snow happening with live weather set to on.

[CoyoteDutch]

Surely bring something warm for the arrival at Tromso ENTC. It’ll be snow, rain, or a mixture of those by the time we get there

[codenuts42]

I’m going to try the AeroElvira Optica today. Let’s see if the Optica is fast enough to keep up.

[RayGausman]

Almost landing at ENHV for joining the groupflight with the Cessna Skycourier

Set daytime: 16 nov 2024 @ 21:35 UTC

Stunning northern lights (aurora borealis)

Runway in sight

[FilouHarazil]

Snowy Flight to day lol GooD Flight

[NeedaRadar]

Fuel Behind the wall

[ElkanDavid]

Had a blast during this community flight. The previous few ones I did not manage to join because of some settings not working out, but I am so happy I got it sorted for today’s flight as the northern lights were simply amazing!

[Newspawnz]

What an amazing flight today, great idea with the Aurora.

[supertux76]

INCREDIBLE views today. Hopefully these do the fly-in justice.

[GazPhoon]

[IceManDBB]

This FlyIn must have been the reason I bought the sting S4, the panorama canopy was perfect for this flight. And in VR it look surreal real. OMG we should definetly do more night flights, couldn’t stop taking pictures.

I’m sorry but these are alread the filtered out ones.