RESCHEDULED - [Official] Community Fly-In Friday: Madagascar

This event which had to be canceled two weeks ago due to technical difficulties with the Twitch stream has now been rescheduled for 2025-08-15! Apologies for the delay, and we’ll see you in Madagascar on Friday!

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 AND @Jummivana
When: Friday, August 15 @ 1800Z for two hours.
2025-08-15T18:00:00Z
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

We return to Africa this week for a scenic flight across Madagascar, a large island nation in the Indian Ocean!

Departing from the port city of Mahajanga, we will make our way southeast towards the capital, Antananarivo. En route, we’ll have a touch & go landing on a dirt strip at Tsaratanana.

MSFS (2020) and MSFS 2024 Pilots on PC can download the .pln file here:
2025-08-01 Madagascar.PLN (2.0 KB)

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

AIRCRAFT

Recommended aircraft: Air Tractor AT-802, Cessna 185 Skywagon, Cub Crafters X or NX Cub, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Diamond DA40, Patey Aviation Draco X, or any aircraft of your choice with a cruise speed of about 130 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.









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Due to some unforeseen technical issues, we have had to postpone today’s Madagascar livestream to a future date. We’re sorry things didn’t work out today. :frowning:

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OMG technical issues??? When surrounded by multi-player traffic my frame rate went from over 45 (in VR) to less than 2 frames per second…. Wow.

For clarification, the technical issues we encountered today was with the broadcast to Twitch, not with MSFS.

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It was nice having a small group do the flight anyway. Unfortunately, we lost most of them, but three of us made it to the destination airport. Thanks for tagging along!








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Nice views. Sadly, we didn’t have a stream, but a few of us flew the route.





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Oh no! Anyways, …

Thanks to @IceManDBB for the shenanigans, and @debugger79 and @Newspawnz for staying all the way to the destination.

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After a long wait departed anyway like many others. Little bit proud here on those who still went too. Now thats the true pilot in you there :wink: Compliments!

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Hah, litteraly forgot to post some screenshots. Only did half the flight, though.

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Take 2…

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the sims very slow.. trying to load in for the last 5 mins :slight_smile:

15 mins later and it wont let me in still. I am on the beta client SU3. I wonder if that’s the problem…

I’m out sorry 20 mins of waiting at a loading screen. It’s probably the beta version.

Some views from today’s flight. Had to turn on some light to land at the destination though.

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2nd round, then.
















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Round two. But different live weather, and a different plane. A nice evening as usual.

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As usual a fun community flight! Because of a ctd at the start I was a bit behind but I enjoyed the scenery of Madagascar and was just in time at the arrival airport for a quick snap of the other participants.

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At least we got the 2020 gang for a while

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