We will depart from Aviano (LIPA) in the northeast of Italy. Only 30 miles southwest is Istrana (LIPS), our first landing. We continue west and land at Ghedi (LIPL). About 40 miles southwest is Piacenza (LIMS), the now-closed Italian Air Force base. Now we have a longer leg. We head south along the coast and land at Grosseto (LIRS).

Depending on our progress and on which airplanes are chosen, we may have to skip the next landing at Gioia del Colle (LIBV) and head directly to Grazzanise (LIRM), the Air Base just north of Naples.

From here it is a long leg (256 miles) to Decimomannu (LIED), the large NATO training base on the island of Sardinia. Time permitting we will fly over Capo Frasca, the air-to-ground range close to Decimomannu.

Documentation: Flight plan and pilots guide

 Aircraft: It is a very long flight (960 miles, but with a good opportunity to save miles and time enroute if required). We want something fast, the F-18, the TF-104G, or any other fast jet would be ok. There are some civilian aircraft available, like the CJ4 or the Longitude, that are fast enough, especially during the longer legs when we can climb to higher flight levels. I will be in the TF-104G, please fly what you like.

Scenery: This addon is a demo of a coastline correction, but it also includes a good improvement for Grosseto:

PROJECT COASTLINE TUSCANY + GROSSETO AIRPORT (LIRS) v1.5 » Microsoft Flight Simulator

I recommend to use LIRS from the package.

Please set your simulator for a 9 AM departure. We try real weather.

 Particulars:

•             Date and time: Saturday March 12, 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!

Look forward to this flight. Should be informative, interesting, and fun. And thanks for the video links. The last piece, flying the pattern at Decimomannu, is great. The film's scenery is at least as good as the Asobo-Blackshark rendition, though I cannot say if it is as good as X-Plane. 😉

4 hours ago, Viking01 said:

Piacenza

That jumped out at me as 'Placenta'. What?! I'll be riding a v1.4 Hawk. Looking forward to it.

On 3/7/2022 at 4:40 AM, Viking01 said:

Date and time: Wednesday March 12, 19:00 UTC

This is now the Saturday flight  🙂

Edited March 9, 20224 yr by Bert Pieke

For Starfighter drivers who want a navigational assist you can find an "ln3" file HERE which has the airports for this fight.

 

Drop the text file into the your  \Community\simskunkworks-aircraft-tf104g\Data\phi-files directory.  Thanks to Klas for his conversion tool.  Very Handy.

10 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

This is now the Saturday flight  🙂

Thanks Bert, corrected.

On 3/10/2022 at 5:17 AM, jt_williams said:

For Starfighter drivers who want a navigational assist you can find an "ln3" file HERE which has the airports for this fight.

 

Drop the text file into the your  \Community\simskunkworks-aircraft-tf104g\Data\phi-files directory.  Thanks to Klas for his conversion tool.  Very Handy.

Thanks Jeff!

This was just excellent. Nice touch to enhance the approach into Deci. 😎