[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Peru

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 @AlyKatz
When: Friday, May 22 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2026-05-22T18:00:00Z
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

We’re returning to South America this week for a flight in Peru! We’ll start in the capital city of Lima, fly down the coast the Pisco, then make our way into the mountains for a touch and go landing at Andahuaylas. Finally, we’ll visit the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site of Machu Picchu before we have our full stop landing at Cuzco.

Optional Marketplace Add-on: Simmers may choose to use the SPZO Cusco Airport addon by developer FSDG. 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:
2026-05-22 Peru.PLN (2.6 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 SPJC. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Beechcraft King Air 350i, Cessna C400 Corvalis TT, Cirrus Vision Jet, Daher TBM 930, Pilatus PC-12, 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.

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Oh, right. The airport. The airport in Cuzco, the airport chosen especially to be in Cuzco, Cuzco’s airport. That airport?

There are some freeware addons for the airports and Machu Picchu, but all were made for FS2020 some time ago.

I could not get the Machu Picchu to work with FS24, the PG (or what it is) does not show up.
EDIT: correction, it actually works, just does not load in world map view, and takes a bit of time to actually load in

The airports “work” in FS24 with some caveats:

SPJC- has the 34L/16R runway missing, as it was still under construction

SPHY - seems to work fine, but for some reason needs some time to actually load in

SPZO - “works”, but has some missing/double assets on the parking lot infront of the terminal

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Are there any special requirements to be able to join the voice channels? You have to qualify somehow? I never see it anymore in Discord. Then again, I never really use Discord so I might very well have missed something.

The voice channels on Discord do require you to be level 3 in the server, which is usually earned after about 30 minutes of regular text chatting. That said, I’m not sure the CMs enable the voice chat specific to the community fly-in these days.

Oh! Thanks. Well, given that I don’t really chat at all, that would explain things.

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Taking a short brake

Enjoy the view near the ancient city Machu Picchu (and EC135)

Machu Picchu, Peru

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That was, once more, a very nice flight.

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It really helps to fly something much faster to take detours for some sightseeing. Real time weather was quite spectacular at the 2nd touch and go, with full double rainbow (see third vid).

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Very beautifull scenic flight across mountaing ranges in mostly jets with some turboprops thrown in.. We had @HotwingsNZ in a MB339 , @JpFlyingHigh TBM, Not Edorin but @Oodelfjisk In a Pelican , @LovelyPhilly TBM and @jimm2009 In a Beech 350

So departure

TOOOMCAAAATS

@HotwingsNZ intercepting

Antg01 B60

@Oodelfjisk Pelican

Gratoitous canyon run

With @jimm2009 unexpected join up

@JpFlyingHigh TBM

@LovelyPhilly TBM8 rendition in MSFS2020

And final arrival

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