[Official] Community Fly-In Friday: World Tour Stage 8: London to Amsterdam

SeedyL3205 · February 22, 2024, 5:19am

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, and @Pieter2427
When: Friday, February 23 @ 1900Z for two hours.
2024-02-23T19:00:00Z
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

The Community Fly-In Friday World Tour continues!

This week, we depart from London, take a quick tour of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, fly up the coast to Norwich, then cross the North Sea to the Netherlands. Our full-stop landing will be at the next of the world capital cities we’ll visit, Amsterdam.

Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2024-02-23 World Tour Stage 8 London to Amsterdam.PLN (3.0 KB)

We will be starting at EGLC. 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, Extra 330LT, Pitts Special, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of about 140 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

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.

TheBlackWind977 · February 22, 2024, 6:42am

My Cessna 195 is in place and ready!

hobanagerik · February 22, 2024, 3:13pm

I’m less than 50 miles West of Norwich. It’s interesting to fly over my part of the world.

kenniekayoz · February 22, 2024, 7:20pm

Fun flight, not so nice weather (live weather turned on) although at the end of everything I think my plane may have flown through the Bermuda Triangle cause it kept bouncing me between three airports and didn’t like the thought of me landing till I attempted to do it in a field, I need more practice landing with some planes.

GaryLob · February 23, 2024, 12:35pm

I flying today I need the full every stops because the pictures is blocking it can you give me the coordinates again and thanks

Homerun795429 · February 23, 2024, 2:51pm

What’s the deal with the flight plan adding north pole waypoints? I remember reading about this in the past but haven’t dealt with it personally before.

Thanks

FlyerOneZero · February 23, 2024, 3:35pm

It’s an issue if you have Navigraph nav data installed. Waypoints on Seedy’s plan don’t always seem to line up properly with those in the Navigraph data and the sim reacts by sending the course via Santa’s house. If you disable Navigraph then the plan should work, or else you can re-create it in Navigraph Charts and get a plan that does work (you’ll have to enter any user waypoints as coordinates).

Ammoknoxx5731 · February 23, 2024, 4:04pm

I am in.

hobanagerik · February 23, 2024, 5:09pm

Loading, then exporting from LNM also works.

ElkanDavid · February 23, 2024, 9:05pm

I am kind of surprised that my comments on the development of Lelystad Airport - that contained no swearing or any other kind of indecent wording - was deleted from the Twitch chat. The topic of the airport was not even raised by me but by the hosts of the community fly-in. I do not understand such censorship.

knight4841 · February 23, 2024, 9:25pm

ElkanDavid · February 23, 2024, 9:30pm

That is the next leg of the world tour done with. I though it would be appropiate to fly the DC-3 in the PH-PBA livery, as the foundation with wonderful volunteers keeping this plane flight worthy have announced this year will be the last year they do tour flights with this Dakota. A plane with an amazing 80 years history, I wish to commend the DDA for keeping this plane in the sky.

SeedyL3205 · February 23, 2024, 9:36pm

@ElkanDavid,

We have, and always have had, a very strict “no politics” rule on both these forums and in our Twitch chat. Your comment violated this rule because it was (in your own words above) criticism of national authorities.

This is a relatively minor infraction and we neither timed you out nor banned you from the channel. In the future, please refrain from any discussion of political issues.

Thanks,
MSFS Team

ElkanDavid · February 23, 2024, 9:47pm

I understand and appreciate that there is a no politics policy for the Community Flights, and perhaps I did touch onto politics there, although it was my opinion as an aviation enthousiast on the development of Lelystad Airport - but that I could have worded in other better ways as to not get into politics. Thank you for further clarifying the no politics rule.

I wish to emphasize that I do appreciate the weekly community flights and am grateful for the joyful community that takes part in it. I look forward to the future flights and am thankful for the flights I got to take part in thus far!