[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Sports!

[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, @jummivana, @Pieter2427, and @NickFlightX
When: Friday, February 6 @ 1900Z for two hours.
2026-02-06T19:00:00Z
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

There are not one but two major sporting events taking place this weekend, so we’re giving attendees of Community Fly-In Friday your choice of two different flight plans to celebrate both of these events!

Option 1: The 2026 Winter Olympic Games open on Friday in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy! If you would a flight in a conventional aircraft to explore the beautiful Italian Alps, choose this option. We’ll depart from Trieste, overfly the mountain town of Cortina d’Amezzo, then make our way to Milan for our full-stop landing.

Option 2: On Sunday, Super Bowl LX is taking place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. If you’d like to fly a blimp and circle the stadium, choose this option. We’ll depart from San Rafael, overly the San Francisco bay area, then make our way to Levi’s Stadium and a full-stop landing at San Jose.

For those choosing Option 2, be sure to claim the recently-released City Update 13: California as a FREE download from the in-sim Marketplace to enjoy the best scenery experience.

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

Option 1:
2026-02-06 Milano Cortina.PLN (2.5 KB)

Option 2:
2026-02-06 Super Bowl.PLN (1.9 KB)

MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC, PS5, and Xbox can import the flight plan from the new Flight Planner tool at these links:

Option 1 (Milano-Cortina)
Option 2 (Super Bowl)

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 LIPQ for Option 1 and CA35 for Option 2. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cirrus SR22T, Diamond DA40, Pitts Special, Extra 330LT, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 120+ knots for Option 1; SkyShip 600 blimp for Option 2.

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.

[Newspawnz]

It was a “cool” flight with real weather

[ElkanDavid]

A fun community flight flying over beautiful northern Italy!

[Chladic88]

Please, excuse the poor quality of the screenshots - i didnt have properly set msfs20 for making a nice screenshots, but i hope, this will be still fine

[IceManDBB]

First time in the Blimp, had litteraly no clue what I was doing. LOL
Managed to get to the destination airport and “land”. Switched to the 500c for the rest of the time.

Blimp:

500c:

Some vids:
when i got it stable for like a minute or 2:

having a closer look:

[IceManDBB]

Man I miss the Orni in 24. Don’t have 20 installed anymore (too much space with everything).

[RayGausman]

On final Bolzano Airport (LIPB)

Amazing sky

Cessna 404 Titan PH-PNF ( Papa Hotel - Page Not Found >< )

Ending Group flight at Linate (LIML)

And back in the air heading Charles-de-Gaulle (LFPG) (2 h 13 m flight) for next week flight

[Orbitbold]

A great flight again.

I like flying with live weather and real time if possible, and I had wanted to figure out the Skyship for some time. I had tried it only once before, and couldn’t get the steampunk trim system (pressure bags, air valves) to work.

So I decided to take part in The Great Bay Area Blimp Invasion Of 2026. While I normally stumble into the Flydays late and utterly unprepared, today I was exceptionally and unusually well set up for the event: I had a rudimentary controller config, and had watched some YT tutorial about the Skyship. (It turns out that the trim system works best if it’s actually switched on.)

Additionally, I had made my own flight plan which extended Seedy’s plan by a preceding first leg, so I could arrive at the Flyday departure airport already airborne.

And then I had the last-minute idea to look up if there are any freeware liveries for the SkyShip. Not necessarily to use for myself, but just in case someone else was using them, so I’d have some cool things to look at. As usual, the community did not disappoint, and both of the non-stock liveries showed up to the event.

I didn’t dare trying to land inside the stadium. At my current “skill” level with this thing, I’m glad to touch down inside the bounds of a state, not a stadium.

[GOTAWAKEMAN]

New Landmark for Milano Cortina Olympic games

Milano Arena for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

Enjoy

[Chladic88]

Yeah, its a shame, Thopter didnt manage it into msfs24

[MightyM13]

Dune 3 is scheduled for December. Maybe there is a chance.

B2T: Did the Italien route yesterday, so I have to fly the San Francisco flight on Sunday by myself

[Chladic88]

Tbh, i dont believe they will port the thopter into msfs24 even when the dune 3 will be in cinemas. I will believe, when i will be able to fly it there …

[TheHunDude]

I chose the Italian route last week as there are no blimps in FS2020. I think Pieter said it at the end of the stream that it is the Alps so I did not disappoint, and it was true: you could see the snowy mountaintops from the starting airport and it just got better from there. I especially enjoyed our first touch-and-go where we had to descend from around 10.000 feet all the way down to the runway.

[SparrowJLT]

Went with option 1 as everyone else in 2020.. shotout to @Edorin5981 @TheHunDude @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 @Groversaurus antg01 @Chladic88 (thanks for brinding the Ornitocopterthingy back) @hello112233 @JpFlyingHigh @PowerCreep and special guest @SAPJapan in a Tornado ..

This time used the L-39 in Patrulla Aguila colors

@hello112233 PA28

@TheHunDude EV10

@Groversaurus VisionJet

antg01 in a BE60 Duke

@JpFlyingHigh In the Diamong DA40

and of couse it wouldnt be a Friday event without @Edorin5981 Pelican

@SAPJapan Special guest appearance bringing a cool Tornado

After @Nikrath move to 2024 we were missing the Ornitocopter.. but @Chladic88 brought it back

And finally @HeXtHeLeGeNd318 showed up in the Darkstar so the photo was finally complete after many weeks

And final aproach and group pic