Aussie Group Flights Team: Emerald Isle Tiger Tour - Clifden to Shannon

In this event we will be flying around Ireland in the Tiger Moth. Low and Slow is the order of the day. An opportunity to take in the beautiful scenery that is the Emerald Isle.

Leg 1: Cork(EICK) to Kildare(EIKH)
Leg 2: Kildare(EIKH) to Dublin Intl(EIDW)
Leg 3: Dublin Intl(EIDW) to Crossmaglen(EGKQ)
Leg 4: Crossmaglen(EGKQ) to The City of Derry(EGAE)
Leg 5: The City of Derry(EGAE) to St Angelo(EGAB)
Leg 6: St Angelo(EGAB) to Clifden(EIIB)
Leg 7: Clifden(EIIB) to Shannon(EINN)
Leg 8: Shannon(EINN) to Cork(EICK)

Leg 7: Clifden(EIIB) to Shannon(EINN)

Details to follow. Hope you can join us.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS INFORMATION IS FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION USE ONLY.

Regards, Paul

ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …

Group Flight: 2023-06-05T20:00:00Z

PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.

Route: Clifden(EIIB) Connemara(EICA) Galway(EICM) Shannon(EINN).

Take off from Clifden(EIIB)
Track 135 deg to Connemara(EICA) 35nm
Touch and Go at Connemara(EICA)
Track 081 deg to Galway(EICM) 19.4nm
Full Stop Landing at Galway(EICM) +++ 10 minute break +++
Take off from Galway(EICM)
Track 182 deg to Shannon(EINN) 36nm
Full Stop landing at Shannon(EINN).

Altitude: The route can be flown up to 2,500’ to be clear of terrain.

Airport details

Clifden(EIIB)
Elev: 147’
RW 02/20 Asphalt

Connemara(EICA)
Elev: 41’
RW 05/23 Asphalt

Galway(EICM)
Elev: 68’
RW 08/26 Asphalt

Shannon(EINN)
Elev: 46’
RW 06/24 Bituminous

Aircraft: Tiger Moth

IMPORTANT: In the interest of keeping it REAL, please refrain from selecting inappropriate aircraft, like airliners. This only detracts from the immersion of the flight.

Seeing Aircraft Correctly: You need to do two things to ensure you can see the other pilots in the event and see them in the aircraft they selected.

Select the same server: To do this, proceed as follows:

From the Welcome Screen, click on your Username (top right)
From the list of servers, under Servers, select WEST USA

Turn off Generic Planes: To do this, proceed as follows:

From the Welcome Screen, click on OPTIONS
Click on GENERAL
With TRAFFIC selected, scroll down to the last option and set USE GENERIC PLANE MODELS to OFF

Turning off Crash/Damage:

Select Options/Assistance
Expand Failure & Damage
Disable Crash Damage
Disable Aircraft Stress Damage
Disable Engine Stress Damage
Accept the changes

Voice Room: My personal Discord server is used for voice comms. If you haven’t already joined my server, click on the below link to request access. I will set you up as a Member so you can access the server. Ensure you do this prior to the flight, as latecomers will need to wait for the next event.

Link to join the Voice Room: Aussie Group Flights Team - On-line Flying

Note: this link is only valid for 7 days from posting.

Weather/Time: We will set the time to 8am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose REAL weather so that the winds are correct.

From the World Map view, click on Flight Conditions (upper right of screen)
Click on All Players, Live Traffic, Custom
Under Weather and Time, select Live Weather and move the time slide bar to show 8:00am. 
Click Close and Fly from the World Map view.

We can start departing from 20:00z. There will be no need for official radio calls. Lets just have some fun taking in the scenery and the social aspects of the event.

Turning on Points of Interest

Select Options/Assistance
Expand POI
Set Landmark Markers to ON
Set City Markers to ON
Set Airport Markers to ON
Accept the changes

Turning on Name Tags (This will assist you in following the group if you get disoriented):

Select Options/GeneralTraffic
Set Show Traffic Nameplates to On
Accept the settings

Still confused, check out the multiplayer video tutorial from SimHangar Flight Simulation: MSFS | MULTIPLAYER | How To Guide | Everything You Need To Know | Fly in events coming soon. - YouTube

Let me know if there’s anything else that I’ve missed that you need to know.,

Regards, Paul

Flight Plans for the event …

Little NavMap: VFR Clifden Airport (EIIB) to Shannon (EINN).lnmpln (1.6 KB)

MSFS: VFR Clifden Airport (EIIB) to Shannon (EINN).pln (2 KB)

Print this flight card out for your easy reference during the flight (Note: only available up to the date of the flight): Dropbox - Flight Card_EITT.pdf - Simplify your life

Event reminder …

Myself and two other pilots new to the Aussie group joined, but we were only ones online? We were on West USA as posted All Player? And able to chat with each other.

If you were guided by the times suggested by the Forum Calendar, you probably joined at the wrong time. Ensure you join the Discord server and use the times in the Events Channel to determine the start time for your timezone.

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I knew I was not going to be available to fly this event, but did find a few minutes to join you in air on the way to Galway, I think you were somewhere near Spiddal flying east, (my plane didn’t have a compass or DG and I haven’t learned the key to bring up the assistance stuff). Since I don’t fly the Moth, I chose the ICON A5 to be compatible with “low and slow”.

This was the first time I have tried to join an actual group flight and it was really cool. I looked around Ireland for a clump of planes and set my departure to the last plane in the group. When I materialized, I could see lots of nameplates ahead and looking down left I saw an actual plane with displayed altitude of 435 feet.

I could only spare a few minutes before the XYL grounded me, but it was truly fun to see the group.

This was my only prior MSFS flight in Ireland (1995):

sláinte

Hope you can join us in future events. You would be very welcome.

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Odd, just checked. Correct time in Discord East Coast time. Others were there, so not just me. Try next time.

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Exactly - Discord shows correct 2000z time, but here these events are headlined as 1800z

I’m sorry you are having issues with the time of events. The only thing I can say with any certainty is that; if you join my Discord server: Aussie Group Flights Team - On-line Flying and go to the Events channel at the top of the list of channels on the left, you will see all the planned events along with the CORRECT time for your timezone.

Hope this helps moving forward.

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