We'll start at Half Moon Bay airport (KHAF), head up the coast and cut over to KSFO.  From there we will

overfly the city with its various attractions and head north a bit into the Sonoma valley, before following a clock-wise scenic flight ending up at Palo Alto. 

Flightplan is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r9b2tvm1arrxgh/VFR Half Moon Bay (KHAF) to Palo Alto (KPAO).pln?dl=0

Add-on scenery suggestion:   https://flightsim.to/file/1914/san-pablo-bay-ca-san-rafael-gnoss-sonoma-valley-petaluma-muni

It is not a long flight, so 120 kts airspeed will do the job:  P149, Arrow, or similar.. whatever you prefer.

 

Note the time... for the European folks, it should be the same time as usual, for the North American group, it is an hour later.

 

Particulars:

·         Date and time: Wednesday November 3, 19:00 UTC

·         Where: AVSIM RTWR Teamspeak - Casual Flights Channel

·         Teamspeak Server Address: ts.teamavsim.com

·         MFS Multiplayer: US Eastcoast Server

If you want to help others enjoy the multiplayer experience, don't forget to enter your aircraft details on the multiplayer spreadsheet (linked here). Your courtesy will save others a lot of time and effort. Thanks!

Edited October 30, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

Bert, this looks to be a beautiful flight. As the old New Yorker cartoon said, "There may not be a heaven, but somewhere there is a San Francisco."

Here is a possible twist at the end. We can fly it today if we have a few extra minutes. Or we can fly it on our own later.

- After landing at San Jose [KSJC], we could divert very slightly to execute a low pass over Moffett Field [KNUQ] and admire the massive airship Hanger One (small addon download here). (Not a bad rendition of this famous aviation landmark in its current stripped-down condition. But it is not fly-through-able.)
- Then continue 1.8nm to fly over the Googleplex, the nominal headquarters of Google (which has offices all over the space between Moffett and the Googleplex). Colorfully modeled in the sim.
- Then swing 4nm west to fly over the distinctive mission-style architecture of Stanford University.
- Turn north 3.5nm over Palo Alto and Menlo Park toward the Bay, and take a look at 1 Hacker Way, the headquarters of Facebook...er...Meta. These are all powerful institutions that mark our century.

- Finally, turn to land at Palo Alto [KPAO] as planned.

This diversion adds about 7nm to the trip. Maybe 4-5 minutes.

You can download your flightplan, adorned with these extra waypoints, and a cleaned-up version of Hanger One from my DropBox here.

Again, this is a last second addition ... only if we are interested and have extra time. If not, pilots can sample these sights at a later time.

M