[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Transylvania

*** NOTE START TIME CHANGE TO 1700Z THIS WEEK ***

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 the PC and Xbox platforms.

Hosted by @SeedyL3205, @Jummivana, @Pieter2427 and @simtom2

When: Friday, October 28 @ 1700Z for two hours.
2022-10-28T17:00:00Z
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

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN START TIME THIS WEEK. THE LIVESTREAM WILL BEGIN AT 1700Z, TWO HOURS EARLIER THAN NORMAL.

For our Halloween :jack_o_lantern: flight this year, we will be flying over the Transylvania region of Romania, mythical home of the vampire :man_vampire: Dracula in the classic novel by Bram Stoker. Our flight plan will see us visit two historic locations which were said to inspire Stoker when he was picturing Dracula’s castle: Bran Castle and Poenari Castle.

For PC players, there is a freeware scenery addon for Bran Castle available here.

Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2022-10-28 Community Fly-In Friday Transylvania.PLN (3.7 KB)

We will be starting at LRCO. Please load your aircraft 10 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the runway in preparation for departure.

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: any plane of your choice with a cruise speed of around ~170 knots. Examples: Beechcraft Bonanza, Beechcraft Baron, Diamond DA62, etc.

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

It is advised in this flight to turn off both aircraft collisions and terrain collisions. If you do crash, you can use “slew” mode to join the pack. If the pack will be too scattered before the first stop, we will use slew on a defined point to regroup.

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 the amount of experience.

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Too bad the actual Dracula castle isn’t in game, it’s just a flat texture of the shape of it. I live a few km away from it in Brasov, and I was so excited to fly over it in game, but in the first few weeks after the launch of the game there was an apartment building there and now nothing…

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Alex rumour has it that Count Dracula himself insisted that Asobo remove his castle from the sim.

Who would argue with the famous Count.
So they complied.

Bring your garlic.

I’ll be there if not banned. Lol…

You have no idea how long it took me to find Transylvania the first time on Google maps a few years ago. For people who don´t know that it is called “Siebenbürgen” and not “Transylvania” good luck ever finding it :smiley:

But that Halloween fly in sounds cool!