[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: San Francisco -> Colorado

[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, @Pieter2427, and @NickFlightX
When: Friday, April 25 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-04-25T18:00:00Z
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

City Update 10 launched earlier this week, and to celebrate this release, our Community Fly-In event will be between two of the cities with newly updated TIN (photogrammetry) data: San Francisco and Denver!

Join us for a beautiful high level flight across scenic California and parts of the US Southwest including a crossing of the majestic Rocky Mountains!

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-04-25 San Francisco to Colorado.PLN (861 Bytes)

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 KSFO. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatross, Airbus A320, Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Cessna Citation, or any plane of your choice with a cruise speed of 400+ 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]

Sounds like chilling in luxury flight with my main airplane the C700.

Having a preflight before stepping into the Longitude spotting the GoldenGate Bridge and Alcatraz

Landing back on San Fran switching over from B36 to C700 seems all go well. Untill the take-off… Abording the take-off for the reason it cant get the airspeed alive. Was looking forward to this flight but seems with a damaged airplane its actually better free my mind in BF5.
Wish you all a good flight, i am not joining this one.

[zBrainlezz]

Mmm, this seems like the perfect opportunity to mess with the Boeing 707 for the first time in a bit…

[kenniekayoz]

Community Fly-In Friday: San Francisco to Colorado

[PadleWarrior]

@SeedyL3205

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:

The **MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 .pln file provided does not work on MSFS2020 (usually it does) → will set it up manually.

Looking forward to seeing you.

[supertux76]

While I normally prefer the low and slow flights this was a fun departure. Forgot to descend early enough and had to make a tactical descent into KDEN but I managed a okay landing anyway.

Happy Flyday!

[CriminalPilot]

Crazy that it takes 2 hours just to fly between Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, Colorado, at 400kts! Colorado is way bigger than I thought.

Awesome scenery and weather along the way! But didn’t catch up to anyone so just a few solo shots to show off:

[NeedaRadar]

[ElkanDavid]

As usual a fun community flight! I felt like flying the Tintin livery of the Fenix A320.

[zBrainlezz]

This was very fun. I’m glad wake turbulence doesn’t exist in FS2020, otherwise I’d have been eating NickFlightX’s wake the whole way.

[ExcessionOCP]

Agreed! It was a great flight to do in the CJ Eurofighter! If only a solution could be come up with to solve the model matching problem. I’m sure there weren’t quite as many A320s flying as it appeared!

[TheHunDude]

Most of the time I fly with GA planes plus I had less time to play MSFS recently so I had a hard time choosing which aircraft to fly. I chose the F-117 in the end and had a nice flight. I messed up the landing at Denver but no one was around to see it so no problem. Also thanks for the birthday shoutout!