[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Perito Moreno Glacier

[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, February 27 @ 1900Z for two hours.
2026-03-06T19:00:00Z
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 for another flight in South America’s magnificent Patagonia region for a trip to the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park! Join us for a flight through absolutely stunning natural scenery as we venture southbound from Perito Moreno to our full stop destination of El Calafate.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2026-03-06 Perito Merino Glacier.PLN (2.5 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 SAWP. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Beechcraft Baron, Beechcraft Bonanza, Cessna C400 Corvalis TT, Cirrus SR22T, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 170+ 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.

[RayGausman]

[NeedaRadar]

[Newspawnz]

Ok, SeedyL, you didn’t promise too much, the scenery was really great!

[Pieter2427]

Beta crew

Sorry for the pop-up

[NeedaRadar]

[IceManDBB]

I took way to many screenshots and vids, had over 100. The landscape and formation flying with @Orbitbold was way too much fun.

Approach, circeling and landing on the glacier:

[Pieter2427]

Sorry for the sloppy parking from me

[IceManDBB]

The flight went by so fast when you have fun trying to stay in formation, taking screens and vids at the same time.
And changing controller batteries when they died over the glacier. Also for some reason my motion compensation for the motion rig did some strange things, so had to deactivate it.

Have to go through almost 30 vids to filter the best out and shorten them to under 1 min. This might take some time.

[UkeDogpH]

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1. Footnotes ↩︎

[Orbitbold]

@IceManDBB

I took way to many screenshots and vids, had over 100. The landscape and formation flying with @Orbitbold was way too much fun.

@IceManDBB Same! That was a lot of fun.

I severely underestimated that first high mountain! I hope I didn’t get you in trouble there - I lost energy badly, turned away from the slope far too late, had to panic-drop some flaps to make it over the highest bit, and had to catch a wing-drop before I could descend again and get some energy back.

Also, you chose a better spot on that glacier. I landed on shelf ice, and only “survived” because I have the Dev mode on, and didn’t disable the invincibility setting. It wasn’t pretty. The plane is called Albatros, but I landed it like a rabid kangaroo.

Some stunning scenery! It again paid off to fly something far faster than what’s needed to follow the flight plan straight, so we could sneak in some aerial mountaineering without arriving late to the destination party.

Too many screenshots.

[IceManDBB]

@Orbitbold

I severely underestimated that first high mountain! I hope I didn’t get you in trouble there

Well, see for yourself, didn’t even needed flaps and still had 100-200ft left:

[Orbitbold]

@IceManDBB

Well, see for yourself,

Thanks for that! I see that my plane was heavier.

I had fuelled the thing up to 70%, for a cause that cannot be called a reason, as that would imply any actual reasoning on my end. I assume you just kept it at 50%, looking at the gauge.

Anyways, we both landed exactly as heavy as we took off, because the L-39 is still a perpetuum mobile.

[IceManDBB]

Here the best of the vids:

Over mountain tops and intecepts:

1st landing and takeoff

2nd landing and takeoff
hammered it into the ground infront of the runway, was first too fast then too slow

the glacier:

landing on the glacier was kinda bumpy

start as well, I dont recomend landing small jets on glaciers, not good for your back

final tochdown

[ValiDoll13]

[ElkanDavid]

Unfortunately I could not fly the entire flight but I was happy to join for a bit!

[SparrowJLT]

This one had really beutifull landscape sights .. 2020 gang composed of @Edorin5981 @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 @PowerCreep @Oodelfjisk @JpFlyingHigh @TeethInMyEYE @TheHunDude @Kamahhn

@TheHunDude doctor killer:

@JpFlyingHigh Caravan

Really pretty landscapes:

This is getting out of hand.. now there are two of them (@Edorin5981 and @Oodelfjisk Pelicans)

@PowerCreep “BE58”

“My downwind or your downwind?”

ATC is gonna be mad..

A wild @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 appears

final aproach to El Calafate

and mandatory finish group photo

[TheHunDude]

It was a pretty nice route last week, saw some nice mountains and lake formations along the way. It was good to see the familiar nameplates of the 2020 crew like @JpFlyingHigh @SparrowJLT @PowerCreep @Edorin5981 @Nikrath & @HeXtHeLeGeNd318. Also this was the first time for me flying the Beechcraft Bonanza, it was a little bit slow to keep the pace with the rest of the crew but that Hot rod livery is very cool.