This week, we have a special mid-week community event! We’ll be flying through Yellow Pine, Idaho, landing at several United States Forest Service airstrips.
Yellow Pine
When: Wednesday, October 7th @ 7PM ET/11PM Zulu
Where: YouTube -> http://bit.ly/YellowPine1 (Discord: https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs)
Plane: Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
Duration: About 1 1/2 - 2 hours
There will also be a Discord event channel open for those who want to voice chat. -> https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs
FLIGHT DETAILS
SizzlingPopcorn and GunPilot will be hosting the event. We will start at 3U2 - Johnson Creek on route to U79 - Chamberlain USFS. On our journey, we will land at several airstrips ranging in length and will mostly be grass strips.
yellow_pine.PLN (6.9 KB)
To use the flight plan, follow these steps:
-Download the flight plan to a easy-to-remember location
-Open MSFS
-Go to the globe
-Click “Load/Save” on the bottom of your screen
-Click “Load”
-Navigate to the downloaded flight plan
-Click load.
WEATHER
We will use custom weather.
MULTIPLAYER SETTINGS
Please adhere to the following settings so you can see everyone / be seen by everyone.
Variable - Setting
Server SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Multiplayer All
Live traffic As desired
Weather Few Clouds
COMMUNICATION
To communicate with others, a voice channel on the "Sizzling Nation Discord” at https://discord.gg/r5tmFRs will be available to join. You can also follow along, with a slight delay, through the YouTube stream: http://bit.ly/YellowPine1.
It is advised in this flight to turn off both aircraft collisions and terrain collisions. If you do crash, you can use the “slew” mode to join the pack.
This is event is open to everyone of all skill levels and is meant to be a fun event to meet other sim pilots.
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I hope to see a lot of you join us for this one, and for the upcoming flight on this Friday night.
We are a very active community and we have people of all skill levels, from real world instructors and bush pilots to people who never saw a flight sim before last week. We have people who like to fly a flight plan procedurally, and people who spend half the trip inverted in an Extra or a Caravan. EVERYONE is welcome, we’re just there to have fun together, help each other a little, and enjoy some laughter. The more the merrier. We’ve got active members from all over the planet, and half of us seem to be flying together when we should be sleeping in our own time zone. =)
Voice communications is not necessary, but is highly recommended. Don’t be shy, no question is too naïve, and we encourage newcomers to speak freely because that’s what this is all about. I’ve only been flying with this group for a short time, but you’ll quickly get to know them and I think you’ll find yourself looking forward to that “next flight”.
Feel free to drop into the discord anytime you see Popcorn or one of us in there flying, then enter one of the voice channels or send a chat , and we’ll give you our present coordinates so you can join us.
We’ve been flying on the Southeast Asia server, because it seems to perform very well for everyone involved. My ping to it is horrible because it’s on the opposite side of the world from me, but it doesn’t seem to matter one bit and it’s buttery smooth.
My FS2020 handle is, “WaldoP3pper”.
BTW, This Idaho flight consists of many US Forestry Service bush fields and some local ranch fields. GunPilot found some really fun approaches. Join us in Yellow Pines!
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I can’t wait! I joined into a recent Japan event, but I was really late…it was pretty much at the end of the trip. Gotta stock up on a bunch of munchies to get ready for tonight’s trip.
I haven’t flown the 208B G.C. yet. Hmmm, I wonder if I should take a few practice flights 
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Uhhh, yeah, that might be a good idea.
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You’ll want to make sure you have this mod → GitHub - Exp232/C208-MSFS2020-Fix: Improvements to the Caravan in MSFS2020
It improves the handling and performance of the aircraft. 
