Yes We are returning to Ibiza. why ? Because I like Ibiza and I would rather be there than here.

This time we will be using the newly released HMS Illustrious Take note of how to install it as its not the same as Ark Royal.:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-illustrious-r06

And I will be circumnavigating Ibiza with it so I wont be too far from the airport.

This flight is open to VTOL ( That means Harriers and F35B etc ) Aircraft and Helicopters.

Plenty of time to practice.

Good luck.

8pm UK time . Coms will be on TS ( push to talk only ).

The Route is not technically coastal, but it will be following a shoreline of some sort.

The Route:-

EGEO - Oban, where we ended up last time .

Flying up the great Glen.

EGPE,

X6FE - Mid point stop.

XDOR

EGPC - Wick - Final destination.

Flight is for Choppers only and Speeds will be 100-120kts to allow some catchup speed.

Scottish Orthos available here :-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

This week for flight night we're going to go and have some fun around the coast of Türkiye.

Starting from Dalaman, we will transit West along the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean before kissing the South Eastern Agean and heading to Kos for our half time refreshment.

After half time we're heading over the Agean breifly again as we cross back to the Bodrum coast. Cruising around the area for the next 45 mins or so before landing at Bodrum airport, a bit further North up the coast.

We will be enjoying the scenery in the tasteful cruiser that is the Aero Commander 500, although the Draco Wilga (updated version here) is also perfectly suitable for anyone who might want to bring that along and fancy a simpler handling, less complex aircraft.

Routing:

LTBS - Dalaman

LGKO - Kos

LTFE - Bodrum

Start will be 8pm UK time (BST) and comms will be on TeamSpeak as always!

Well not only did we fix that but we finally got one of our own working!

Download our Ark Royal and come and join us this week: https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/ai-and-multiplayer-ships/hms-ark-royal-r09

We'll be meeting at 8pm UK time at LEIB (Ibiza) airport and transiting in as elegant a fashion to the Ark Royal as she sails around Ibiza and Formentera. Stuart will be shouting "Hello Sailors" as he Captains the old girl around the Med.

You'll be welcome to bring whatever you like but please do your best to post it here in the thread so everyone can enjoy it and avoid blue gliders.

There'll be lots of lovely scenery to see as we perform carrier ops for the entire flight night and test each others skills.

Fancy Ibiza Island with fancy buildings and lovely orthos is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1se9NQXztYUSnUNuTqWoXshTrhkxjB98N/view

We will meet on Saturday 18th April, taking off promptly at 20.00hrs GMT.

Voodoo's B-26B is not only a beautifully crafted aircraft, it has an auto pilot which will reduce climb rate to prevent a stall, the P38 for example, stalled and killed me gory!

Not taking the B26? Practicing the the first half and choosing wisely from the FGUK/da Vinci Warbird hangars, is recommended.

Take off from VEMN, Runway 5, Dibrugarh Airfield, Assam in India,

We will climb to 18,000 ft Barometric (in 2 stages) and cross the Hengduan Mountains within the Santsung Range of the Himalayas, cruising at a sedate 150 knots. 

Our Midway point is, VYPT Putao, Myanmar (Burma). An emergency airfield, also home to a British Garrison at Fort Hertz.

Runway 17 for take off, after 10min break/refuel.

Not having time to reach Kunming in China, the usual destination for Hump aircraft, we wil stooge about, at 17.000ft Barometric at 150 knots heading for our end point.

ZPLJ Lijiang, China.

Used by the American Volunteer Group "Flying Tigers", the 14th Air Force, and Air Transport Command (the "Hump" pilots). 

COMM's via push to talk, Teamspeak.

I believe I have fixed problems with my Teamspeak, if the issues are not fixed, would someone take the flight? 

I will send them Leaders flight notes with loads of info about "flying the hump" before flight night, in the event I have no voice COMM's.

OrthoPhoto's

Orthophotos.zip

Flight Plan

As I have planned the route using SkyVector, I can not upload my Flight Plan (gpx), this however will keep you on course.

We will be flying the following route which I'll make up some sort of story for, at 550kts and see where it takes us.

OEJB < Start

OETN

OERM

OKBK

OKAS

ORMM

OIAM

OIBH

OIBQ < Mid

Second half will be the same as the first but....wait for it.... in reverse.

Post up what you are bringing from our hangar: If you want to bring something NON FGUK then you must post a link to it up here no later than Friday evening - the now standard penalty being 1 x Large McChicken sandwich meal with Fanta to be paid to me on any attempted involvement (I'm not joking)

Comms via TS please and timing is:

8pm UK Time (BST)

9pm Berlin (CEST)

10pm Riga (EEST)

1pm Boise, Idaho

12 Noon - Vancouver

FLIGHT NIGHT REPLACED WITH NEW ONE:

https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1058/flightnight-saturday-11th-april-gulf-guffaw/p1?new=1

(Image represents actual FGUK ops)

FLIGHT NIGHT REPLACED WITH NEW ONE:

https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1058/flightnight-saturday-11th-april-gulf-guffaw/p1?new=1

This week we will be enjoying the coastal delights of the UK, Starting in St.Marys and along the South West of the UK up to before working our way up through valleys, hills and mountains before finishing at Liverpool

Start: St. Marys - EGHE

Mid: Bristol Filton - EGTG

End: Liverpool - EGGP

Full flightplan is here

We shall meet at the usual time, but be weary the UK has gone into BST since last week so it's one hour forward. That translates into:

8pm UK Time (BST)

9pm Berlin (CEST)

10pm Riga (EEST)

1pm Boise, Idaho

12 Noon - Vancouver

Comms will be via teamspeak and you are all required to use the Blackburn Buccaneer S2B

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/blackburn-buccaneer-s2b

Time will be set as noon and weather is border of a high pressure region.

ANYBODY NOT USING THE BUCCANEER WHO IS PARTICIPATING IN THIS FLIGHT is required to pay the penalty. This week, the penalty is that you owe me a McDonalds McChicken Sandwich meal (large) with Fanta. All penalties are to be paid within 3 working days.

The standard England orthos should work fine allthough they are rather low resolution in the South West and quite jaggedy at anything below 3000ft if anyone fancies gathering better?

Coms on TS as normal ( Use Push to talk only please ).

This week at the request of Alex, we will be using the FG1 Phantom II :-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/phantom-fg-1

This will be a tour of UK bases. Altitude will vary. Speed will be 300+.

Rout is as follows:-

EGQK

EGQL

55.42126 , -1.601087

EGXC

EGYM - Mid point.

EGXT

EGOS

EGVN

EGVO

EGDY - End point.

Scotland orthos available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

Englandshire orthos available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDsv7_xsu6Rq3Nkuwq0LJr2T0hg2UpFI/view?usp=drive_link

See you all at the start.

This week for FlightNight we shall be soaring high (and low) in the skies above beautiful Finland.

We shall meet at 8pm, as is the usual, and head East across this beautiful land before turning before we hit any unfriendly borders.

Routing will be:

EFOU - Start

EFKH - Half Time

EFVA - The Climax

Not too many navaids around so it's a bit of a point and squirt but we'll have lots of fun along the way.

Aircraft for the evening will be the newly updated Jaguar GR3:https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/1044/sepect-jaguar-gr3-v6-0#latest

Hope to see you there! all comms will be via Team Speak.

So this week we will be flying Mosquitos ( Bug infestation, Get it ?? ).

So if your looking at the Photo, and thinking " Oh yes, nice" Hard luck, because thats not the Mosquito were flying.

This is:-

You can download this beast here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORMQIu3d5X_9J9XnHk5oxzG2BYJ29qgG/view?usp=drive_link

So, the actual flight.

We will be visiting reunion island and having an explore so it will be Eyes on flight leader.

I do intend to climb the volcano at some point, if this little bug can manage it. I expect a lot of deaths.

Take off will be FMEP and we will be making our way over to FMEE ( only 2 airports on the Island ) where we will hopefully arrive and stop for our mid point. Second half we will be exploring our way back to FMEP.

Good luck. You have time to practice, I suggest you do so as I wont be entertaining any moaning of complaining about it not flying right.

Another Single type flight. This time one of our lesser used good aircraft, the F-5E:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/jets/northrop-f-5e

Flight will be up to 10K and up to 500ish Kts.

We will be flying up the Canadian Pacific west coast into Alaska .

Route as follows.

KBVS

CYPR - Midpoint

PAWG

PAJN

PAYA - End point.

See you on the flight line.

This week we shall be bringing the mighty Avro Vulcan to the shores of the Med, stretching East from Alexandria, taking in all the beautiful sights and ending up in Beirut (edited from Damascus as Oswald pointed out I'm a silly goose)

Our routing will be, roughly, coastal along:

HEAX - Start

Port Said VOR (PSD)

HEAR - El Arish International

LLBG

HFA

OLBA - End

Vulcan will be mandatory, for it is lovely. You'll all be meeting at HEAX at 8pm UK time and comms will be via Teamspeak.

it will be Switzerland again: Three Cantons, three languages, one country.

Take off will be 08:00 pm UK time in the Bernese Oberland: LSZB, via LSZW and LSMM to the midpoint break at Locarno in Tessin (LSZL). After break and refuelling we will cross the San Bernadino pass into the canton Grisons via Chur, Bad Ragaz (LSZE) to Davos and the final destination Samedan LSZS in Engadine.

Please choose a helicopter from the FGUK hangar which can manage 120 kias up to 12.000 ft, be prepared for magnificent views from high above, and some low valley flying - simply follow the leader.

GPX file to gather scenery (there are some more waypoints than just the airports):

Waypoint string to enter in Skyvector:  LSZB LSZW 463945N0075208E LSMM LSZL 461414N0090837E LSZE 464156N0100533E LSZS  

Comms als usual via Teamspeak.

Hope to see you on Saturday, have fun!

Oswald

Coms will be on TS as usual.

This week we will be taking choppers on a cruise along the Grand Canyon.

This is a fairly long trip so you will need a chopper ( from the FGUK hanger ) that's happy at 130-140-kts, and even then, we may still not complete this one.

Starting at Page, KPGA we will join the Colorado river going south. The will be tracking the river the entire way.

Mid point will be at Bar 10, 1Z1, for a quick stop, refuel and refresh before carrying on to our final destination, Boulder City, KBVU.

Long flight and lets face it, some of you will probably die horribly.

This week we're going to be doing some heavy lift practice - 8pm UK time as always.

Bring your C-130's, A400's and similar from our hangars and experience life down in the valleys before testing your skills landing on the beach at Pembrey Sands - where air forces around the world like to come and do some showboating.

We'll be cruising at about 210kts and our route will be:

Start -

RAF Mildenhall - EGUN

Bristol Airport - EGGD

Pembrey Sands

Pembrey Airport - Half time - EGFP

Llandbehr - EGOD

ORTHOS WILL BE PRETTY ESSENTIAL // WATER EFFECTS MUST BE TURNED OFF

After break we fly to Kiel EDHK, the baltic island Fehmarn and via EDHB to our final destination, the old hanseatic town Luebeck EDHL.

Fixed wing aircraft from the FGUK hangar that can hold 120-130 kts will be suitable, heli pilots are welcome, as well. Coms as usual with teamspeak (newbies welcome: you find information at https://forum.fguk.me/discussion/283/new-teamspeak3-server-details#latest)

Flight plan for gathering scenery is availabe at: https://skyvector.com/?chart=301&zoom=8&ll=55.09263,11.90065https://skyvector.com/?chart=301&zoom=8&ll=55.09263,11.90065

Looking forward to seeing you,

Oswald

Change of plans at short notice as Alex is no longer available for this one.

Helicopters from the FGUK hangers that can maintain 100-120kts.

We will be continuing the Scottish tour.

Starting from the Glasgow Heliport at EGEG, we will fly West, back down the Clyde and heading don the Mull of Kintyre to EGEC as our midpoint. This involves some short water crossings this week.

After mid point we head North to EGEO where we will turn over water Westerly to the Isle of Mull where we wil travel Clockwise round the Island and end up at Glenforsa X6MU as our final destination for the night.

As before, Scottish Orthos are available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

Oly, try running the flight with your terrain , water and cloud settings on minimum. to see if it is actually a terrain loading issue you have.

Were going to Sri Lanka. Ive not been before so I have no idea what to expect.

Select any aircraft from the FGUK Hangers than can fly comfortably at 160-200kts.

The Route:-

VCCW

VCBI

VCCA - Mid point

VCCG

And back to VCCW to end.

Very simple so what or who can go wrong this week...........................

With the new year comes inevitable idiots trying to improve themselves on short-lived quests that they have no intention of keeping up with, and, to that end, let's try and get everyone's airmanship skills up a notch or two, shall we?

This week, we shall be bettering ourselves by doing some good old-fashioned Radio Navigational skills!

Navigating by VOR and using an Instrument Landing System is as good a way as any to start doing that, so that is what we're going to practice this week.

Our route will be suitably convoluted to keep us able to double-check our own positions, and we hope we end up where we want.

There will be no "what's our GPS/FMS heading" - you're going to be given a frequency, and sticking it in your Nav1 box will give you the heading you need.

You can bring ANY FGUK aircraft you wish, as long as you're happy it can do radio nav. Speed required will be 110kts at 5,000ft, and weather will be LIVE

Routing:

EGHF 

SAM

ODH

OCK

BIG

EGKK - Half Time

CPT

BSO

DTY

HON

EGBB

There's a file here with a flight plan, as well as a Nav Log giving the routing (and the frequencies) needed for the night:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10th-0Zj6N14A6Cx32MobEhZPd-wbPPyf/

If you don't know what to fly then the Aero Commander is an excellent choice. I'll make some more suggestions and give some examples of how to test during the week - I would do it now, but my FG is helpfully not loading.

Look forward to seeing you there at 2000 GMT / 2100 CET / 1300 Mountain / 2200 SAST / 1400 CST

Comms will be on TeamSpeak

Over the next few months, I will be running the Scottish coastal tour series of flight night. ( It wont be every week ).

Choose a chopper you are confident with than that can maintain 100-120kts from our hanger. We will be dealing with the lovely Scottish weather as well as the Lovely countryside and coastal areas, so Altitudes will vary.

We will be starting at Carlisle, EGNC, and working our way to Gretna On the Scottish side or the Border. From Grentna we will be following to coast Westerly to out Mid point at my local, EGOY. After mid point we will be departing to head up the West coast and following the Clyde to the Glasgow Heliport, EGEG for the end of Leg1 of the tour.

Scottish Orthos available here:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=drive_link

Any complaints should be made in writing to Alex.

Basically it will be a Helicopter event that even non Heli pilots will be able to take part in, and even be vital to the whole thing.

Chopper type and requirements:-

The pilots will need to master a chopper with a functioning MP Winch man and Multiplayer Crew/passenger function ( so quite a wide choice )

For the Non Helicopter pilots amongst us, your role will be a functioning crewman for the Pilot. Aiding them finding and completing the mission tasks such as accurately guiding the pilots to place the winch man on a target ( and taking and later publishing screen shots as proof ). In SAR and large helicopters you will often see a guy, or girl, hanging out one of the doors. They they checking the LZ or Guiding the helicopter onto target ( so you need to communicate direction and distance to the pilot etc ).

This will involve you all pairing off to form a crew and working together. Once I have designed the mission it will be posted well in advance to allow the crews to form.

Watch this space.

As Christmas is passed, Santa's workshop need a resupply so the toy building for next Christmas can begin.

FGUK have been asked to fly in the cargo.

We will be departing from ENNA in Norway with the cargo of raw materials to be delivered to EFIV, Ivalo in Lapland where Santa's ground crews will offload the goods.

But that is not all. We have been in secret communication with F.E.A.R ( Free Elves Autonomous Regimen ) and they have asked us to smuggle out Liberated Elves that have been freed from Santa's sweat shops. We will fly them out at low level to avoid detection to freedom.

Full flight plan.

ENNA departure point. Climb to 7000ft at 180kts.

EFIV - Midpoint - offloading cargo.

ENNA - return leg flown at not over 1000ft agl, again at 180kts.

C130 from here:- https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/turbo-props/lockheed-c-130

Its going to be twilight for most of the flight, so you will need cockpit lighting.

We've been engaged by some really very splendid German fellows to help with stocking a party

Starting point at 8pm UK time is at Chino Airfield (KCNO) and we will depart from there on 179 degrees, aiming for a steady 80kts and climb to 4450ft until we hit the edge of the Laguna Beach and descend to a more enjoyable altitude of around 1,200ft 

Once we've passed over Long Beach cargo terminals we'll head inland to our rendevouz at Zamperini Field. 

We have a custom staging area there to let us stock up and prepare us for the second half of our flight. Our kind German hosts have put some equipment there for us to load but also, knowing we might get peckish, put on some traditional Christmas Market fayre for us to enjoy on our break.

Then we'll leave for the second half where we will be flying up over the beach until past LAX and Santa Monica, before heading to the scene of the action at 2121 Avenue of the Stars. 

There'll be lots of fun and frolics before an exfil to the South East, heading over Disneyland before landing back at Zamperini field. 

Bring a Helicopter from the FGUK hangar of your enjoyment - or a Harrier if you're particularly messed in the head.

Routing: 

KCNO to KTNA 

 332947N1174441W  333617N1175416W  334335N1180436W  334527N1181231W  334301N1181908W  334449N1182358W  KTOA  335243N1182447W  KLAX  KSMO  340356N1181925W  334812N1175518W    

Scenery pack is available here, including route files for scenery gathering if needed

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpWQ8hTpWZ1kHQXzUNhijfIKtcNHo_Pq/

If you need to test if it's working then load in at Santa Monica from Runway 3 and fly runway heading for about 7 miles, you should see the skyscraper quite clearly.

8pm UK time as normal.

Aircraft of choice of a JT-5B Autogyro.:-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/rotary-wing/jt-5b-autogyro

I basically told Chat GPT where to hold a flight, the aircraft and the time available at 100 kts IAS. So here it is:-

 Below is a two-hour scenic autogyro circuit around Corsica tailored for the JT-5B at 100 kt IAS, with a 10-minute refuel stop roughly mid-route. I made the plan as a VFR coastal circuit that maximizes dramatic scenery (Scandola / Calanques de Piana, Calvi, Cap/upper coast, Bonifacio cliffs, Gulf of Porto, etc.) while using airports and waypoints you can drop straight into FlightGear.

Summary plan (high level)

• Aircraft: JT-5B autogyro
• Cruise: 100 kt IAS
• Total airborne distance (approx): 181.8 NM → airborne time ≈ 1 h 49 min
• On-ground refuel stop: 10 minutes (mid-route)
• Total trip time ≈ 2:00 hours including the 10-minute stop
• Start / finish: Ajaccio (LFKJ) — convenient and scenic.

Route (clockwise circuit, start & finish Ajaccio LFKJ)

1. LFKJ — Ajaccio (start) — Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte. (Lat 41.9236°N, Lon 8.8029°E). opennav.com
2. Calanques / Scandola (waypoint) — Gulf of Porto / Scandola Reserve (excellent visuals). (Lat 42.32486°N, Lon 8.61628°E).
3. LFKC — Calvi (overfly) — Calvi / Sainte-Catherine (Lat 42.52444°N, Lon 8.79306°E). Airprt
4. LFKB — Bastia (overfly) — Bastia-Poretta (Lat 42.5527°N, Lon 9.48373°E). Metar TAF
5. LFKG — Ghisonaccia / Alzitone (10-min refuel stop) — small GA airfield roughly on the east coast (Lat 42.0534°N, Lon 9.4002°E) — chosen because it sits about mid-route along the east coast leg and works well as a short refuel/land break in FlightGear. Metar TAF
6. Porto-Vecchio area (waypoint) — town/harbour area (Lat 41.59137°N, Lon 9.27831°E). Longitude Latitude Maps
7. Bonifacio cliffs (waypoint) — spectacular high limestone cliffs at southern tip (Lat 41.36019°N, Lon 9.18869°E). SummitPost
8. Propriano (waypoint) — scenic gulf on SW coast (Lat 41.67578°N, Lon 8.898997°E). Mister Ferry
9. Return to LFKJ — Ajaccio (finish). opennav.com

The Southern Lighthouse board had decided it would be fun to hold the Christmas Part in the Needles Lighthouse. Unfortunately the boat they used had drifted off and they al have come done with acute food poisoning due to dodgy shrimp and excess booze. They all not require emergency evacuation.

Target Lighthouse:- https://youtu.be/Q_XBs94Igrs

Custom scenery for the Queen Alexandra hospital ( you may already have this as its been used on a flight before ) :-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bXcTKOzpz-AIPTwNdENZcSLtACmFPOsq/view

Englandshire Orthos:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDsv7_xsu6Rq3Nkuwq0LJr2T0hg2UpFI/view?usp=drive_link

Choppers will gather at RMB Chivenor EGDC and travel at 100-110kts to the staging area at Solent Airport EGHF which is our midway point. From that point we will be running evacuation flights from the Needles Lighthouse to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.

Im fairly sure some of you may not survive but im sure you will spend many hours practicing before it.

a highline is but one version to cross angel falls. Personally, I prefer aircraft Therefore I invite you to join me for Flightnight on Saturday 29th November.

We meet at 8:00 hr pm London time in the middle of the Venzuelean jungle at SVSE: Santa Elena De Uarien National Airport, fly NE to our first tepui and proceed to Luepa Airfield (in FG SVPP) for our midpoint break.

The tour will lead us to an impressive bunch of Tepuis incl. Angel Falls until we reach our final destination Canaima Airport SVCN.

The Skyvector link is: https://skyvector.com/api/loadplan?id=1375590.uLASWsHb_VvvDmN3yzvy2j0m2qbLx2M-&c=301&z=5&lat=5.46208&lon=-62.19082 (SVLP here is SVPP in Flightgear).

Please use GA Aircraft or Helicopter of your personal choice, main cruise speed will be about 120 kt.

I hope to see many airmen and airwomen in a dangerous jungle adventure. Don't die, there is no inbetween airfield to respawn!

Coms will be with teamspeak as usual.

Wherever Flight Night is, this UFO devoid of Terrasync shall be there.

Best regards to Flight Gear Server Admins!

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=9c48e9a36ecdad20c10e6e6932288ab7a1ab648453b667012872bf6da5cc0c12JmltdHM9MTc2NDIwMTYwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=3dbd65ff-5e35-6159-392e-737e5fce608f&u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9aXRzK3Byb2Jpbit0aW1lJiZtaWQ9Qjk2QkZDMDNGRENDNTYyQ0ZCOERCOTZCRkMwM0ZEQ0M1NjJDRkI4RCZGT1JNPVZBTUdaQw

Since no one has come forward this week, I will take it on and as Im the Helicopter Guy, it will be a helicopter flight.

8pm UK time as normal.

Speed will be 100-110kts ish.

This flight is for the Westland Scout :-

https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar/rotary-wing/westland-scout

Flight plan:-

PAJN

PAGY

FA4 - mid point.

CYXY

CYHT - End point.

We will be following the valleys between points and will be avoiding high ground where possible.

All coms will be on TS as normal and I wont be typing Jack Shnit while flying helicopters.