[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Patagonia

[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 @flywithjoe
When: Friday, May 9 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-05-09T18:00:00Z
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

This week we return to South America for a flight over the spectacular Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile ! While en route, we’ll enjoy varied and breathtaking scenery of deserts, mountains, and fjords!

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-05-09 Patagonia.PLN (3.5 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 SAWR. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cessna 185 Skywagon, Cessna 404 Titan, Cirrus SR22, Pitts Special, Extra 330LT, Patey Aviation Draco X, or any other plane of your choice with a cruise speed of 140+ 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.

[kenniekayoz]

MSFS 2020 - Community Fly-In Friday: Patagonia

[TheHunDude]

It looks like the pln file doesn’t work in 2020, I quickly made a copy based on the screenshot if anyone needs it.
2025-05-09 Patagonia custom.PLN (4.3 KB)

[CriminalPilot]

I recently upgraded to a super ultrawide monitor (32:9) and this is one of my first flights with it. One hell of a way to jump into the deep end, absolutely gorgeos views every which way you look. I hope the screenshots come out alright/viewable for standard monitors as well!

Glad I equipped the all season tires on the Skywagon with the constant weather and geographical changes.

[Maelmoor]

Loved the flight, great fun and lovely scenery, have missed most flights this year, so was fun to take part again, thanks!

[IceManDBB]

Really scenic flight today. Looking forward to some pizza hawaii next week, my favorite!!

Close call with a wall:

[Orbitbold]

A great flight, beautiful scenery, and the combination of live weather and real daytime was particularly stunning on this occasion.

I usually fly the Bell 407 on Community Fly-Ins, but that isn’t always possible due to speed requirements. The few fixed-wing planes that I have controller setups for aren’t really suitable for group flying, and I have sometimes missed a Fly-In because it only occured to me 5 minutes before the event that I would need to (1.) configure a different plane, which (2.) I have zero experience flying.

This time, I managed to at least select a plane, and configure my controls, before the event started. However, there was no time to check it out even once in advance, so this flight today was my very first time ever flying the L-39 Albatros, which I chose because I was looking for something small, nimble, and fast - ideally fast enough to allow for little detours, and catching up with the crowd without too much of a strain.

That’s why I flew it like a drunken, rabid gibbon.

I had a blast - the L-39 is absolutely perfect for Fly-Ins, apart from the fact that the engine apparently requires no fuel flow at all to operate just fine.. (I may eventually figure out how to turn the engine off after parking.)

Made only a few screenshots, and only one of them is decent.

[klzach8764]

I haven’t been able to get the flight plans to load for the last few fly-ins. I msfs 2020.

[RayGausman]

Flying the group flight route the day later with the Bell407 with another departure (SCOH)

~ Stunning Patagonia with BELL407 and Corvalis C400 ~

[Newspawnz]

Lovely scenery, great flight plan

[TheHunDude]

It was a great event on Friday, the scenery was nice, live weather was good and the turnout in 2020 is still going strong. Can’t wait for the pizza fly-in!