San Diego Bay Tour 2026

Doing the best to fly as real as it gets, I wanted to experiment the last approved way in April 2026 to make the San Diego Bay tour. FAA has closed the at-or-below-500-feet below Lindberg departure, so the VFR corridor + 1’000 feet with North Islands tower + 180° at Point Loma seems to be our last chance. I picked MSFS2024 (Beta SU5 1.7.22.0), the Carenado Dakota, my Foreflight iPad app and let’s go!

Zoom on the track log of the Bay tour as seen from Foreflight (and some slight deviation :wink: )

First leg over San Diego downtown at 3’500 ft. The (MSFS2024 Real Time) weather wasn’t much cooperative for this flight:

After the 180° in the south of the San Diego Bay to reach 1’000 feet, let’s head north west bound to target Coronado Bridge:

Over Coronado Bridge 1’000 feet:

180 at Point Loma to flight the Bay Tour at 1000 ft North East bound:

Heading back towards San Diego Lindberg (KSAN):

Our destination today, Brown Field. Joining the (left assigned by Say Intentions) downwind runway 26L:

Turning final runway 26L (approximately :wink: ) at Brown KSDM

Ha, I just watched the Outside the Cockpit video on this today.

Yes, same here! That’s what inspired me :wink:

Unfortunately, Say Intentions or any ATC on MSFS is not capable to reproduce the complexity of airspaces and the as-real-as-it-gets ATC communication.

I fly around San Diego quite a bit. Have all the add-ons including the great vbazzilio airports. The last MIcrosoft California update added the Star of India ship at the Embarcadero. Nice!

Thanks to you, this LA boy knows so much about Southern California and the San Diego area. You have made it come to life and you keep doing it. Keep 'em flying, Chum!