[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Swiss National Day

[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 PC, Xbox, and PS5 platforms.

Hosted by @SeedyL3205, @Av4ngel, and @NickFlightX
When: Friday, July 31 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2026-07-31T18:00:00Z
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

August 1st is Swiss National Day! Join us in celebration with a flight across this Alpine nation, famous for its beautiful mountains, picturesque lakes, and charming towns. Our flight plan this week will see us tour almost the entire country from East to West including cities such as Zurich, Lucerne, Bern, and Geneva.

Players on MSFS (2020) should be sure to install the FREE World Update 6 and World Update 18 from the in-sim Marketplace.

Suggested Marketplace Add-ons: Players may choose to purchase these products from the in-sim Marketplace to enhance this week’s Fly-In. Please note that purchasing any of these products is entirely optional and is not required to participate in the group flight.

• LSZH Zurich Airport by FSDreamTeam OR MK-Studios
• LSGG Geneva Airport by RedWing
• LSZG Grenchen Airport by MXI Design
• LSZB Bern Airport by MXI Design
• Trains: Switzerland by FS Trains

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2026-07-31 Switzerland.PLN (2.9 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 LSZR. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Cessna 172, CubCrafters X or NX Cub, JMB VL-3, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of 110 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.

[IceManDBB]

As most of the airports are already bespoke in the sim, here are LSME and LSGG:

2 versions for LSME, both work, but don’t look so good with the overexposed stellite imagry of the areas in FS24 together with the bespoke areas

LSME - Emmen Military Airport Switzerland - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

Flugplatz Emmen - LSME - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

LSGG is 24 native, but still saw some texture shimmering in some places, although it’s quite detailed ( will probably hammer the CPU main thread)

LSGG – Geneva Airport - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

[LovelyPhilly]

On our way.

And approaching the final destination.

[NeedaRadar]

[ElkanDavid]

As usual a fun community flight! A beautiful sunset during the route, with sundown perfectly timed with the touch down at the final destination.

[MRTNAIRLINES]

Is the entire Swiss landscape still bathed in these horrible, oversaturated yellow/brown hues? It’s truly unwatchable in MSFS 2024. When does Asobo intend to finally change that?

[IceManDBB]

Yes, it is. Bijan’s Season Enhanced tries to mitigate it somewhat, with more or less success.

[IceManDBB]

Been a while, since I flew realtime into the dark. Had severe performance problems in VR in SU6 beta. It got a bit better after resetting the Rolling cache and clearing the nvidia/DX shader cache folders, but still not great. Think it’s the heavy photogrammetry across all the landscape, cities and additional bespoke airports.

@NickFlightX selling planes:

Touch and Go

Arrival

[UnwiredEddie]

I apologise to anybody who had their vision interrupted by my plane during a touch’n’go. Just trying to get some action shots.

@SeedyL3205 Re: Where are you from? You do have an Australian regularly flying along, I just listen in and don’t take part in the chat.

Updated Community Flights map

Since you’ll be planning some flights soon I’ll throw my 2c in for some flights I’d like to see. Sri Lanka to Southern India via Adam’s bridge, Lesser Caucasus Mountains (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), or Corsica + Sardinia. No idea what the situation is with graphic fidelity in these areas, but we haven’t been to any of them before in Fly-In Friday.

Anyway… on with the pretty pics.

[UnlimitedBagels]

Been quite a while (last time was in MSFS 2020) but I joined for some of today. Was good! Thanks! Hoping to join more future ones!

[IceManDBB]

@UnwiredEddie

Updated Community Flights map

Since you’ll be planning some flights soon I’ll throw my 2c in for some flights I’d like to see. Sri Lanka to Southern India via Adam’s bridge, Lesser Caucasus Mountains (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), or Corsica + Sardinia. No idea what the situation is with graphic fidelity in these areas, but we haven’t been to any of them before in Fly-In Friday.

Can’t believe we haven’t been to Alaska yet.

[UnwiredEddie]

Technically we have, just the very south eastern part. But, yeah, something out of Anchorage or through the Aleutian Islands could be a good flight too.

[IceManDBB]

Or Tasmania, there even is a bushtrip for it.

[hayate1944]

I really enjoyed this week as well. Thank you, everyone.

【MSFS2024 SU5】公式集会[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Swiss National Day に参加

[TheHunDude]

Had a great flight last week with quite a lot of touch-and-gos. Live time provided a nice sunset along the way.

Lausanne Cathedral (in the upper left corner):