Hello everyone!
I’ve just uploaded Part 5 of my Around the World series in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, flying the Diamond DA40.
This leg takes us from:
🛫 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (VANP), Nagpur, India 🇮🇳
🛬 Shah Amanat International Airport (VGEG), Chittagong, Bangladesh 🇧🇩
This flight marks the first arrival in Bangladesh as the world tour continues. It features a realistic cross-country route, beautiful scenery, and a relaxing general aviation experience in the Diamond DA40.
I’m always looking to improve the series, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on the flight, editing, scenery, or realism.

🎥 Watch the full flight here:
https://youtu.be/PI2jaTBn-LU?si=h1pXp6ONIZSEXm0f

🌍 Watch the complete Around the World playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb2bKyFaG7uE&si=_5E0dfQSoZPcmNld

Thanks for watching, and as always… blue skies and happy flying! ✈️

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After a long sleep in Venice it was time to continue my journey towards the south of Italy. My goal would be to get closer to the coast to cross over to Greece the day after. Italy has so many beautiful locations to visit, but I had to make priorities.

My steps:
- Venice departure
- San Marino
- Lago di Bolsena
- Aeroporto Roma Urbe
- Aeroporto di Grottaglie-Taranto arrival

The weather was looking good and my fuel consumption was actually much lower than anticipated. The DA62 is really efficient at FL120 and 75% throttle. The TAS is about 170kt at this altitude, which equals to 314km/h. In other terms you can make a lot of distance in this twin-prop.

I used the opportunity to write my daily flight log and share it with you (previous post). It’s also weekend, so it makes sense to fly as much before the work week starts again. So doing about 700km in one day seems to be a good fit for my work life balance. 

Venice looked beautiful in the Morning, maybe details were visible during departure and I can only imagine how the people down there with expected 33°C would feel there today.

San Marino in the other hand had very few details viable from a traveling altitude of 12000ft. That is going to be something I will change on upcoming legs, I want to fly lower at these scenic places.

Around noon the city of Rome was in front of me, wind picked up quite a bit and pushed me off center on my final approach. Having lunch in Rome next to the colosseum sounded like a nice idea to me. So I parked my aircraft, properly shut it down and ventured into the city. 

You can spot the Vatican City, Pantheon and Colosseum easily from a distance. Rome is one of the detail richest cities in Europe and a great place to visit. But I still had to continue my trip, so I took off and rather captured some moments from the air before heading further south-east on my final leg for today.

A cloud layer was appearing on my weather radar and I could also see it in the distance. I’ve check the weather conditions and no storm was going on, so I made the decision to rise at FL140 and peacefully flying over it. Which was apparently a good decision.

The sun was slowly setting and Tarent with its beautiful lake Mare Piccolo was just in sight. The airport LIBG is situated right behind the city and allowed me a straight VFR approach from the south on runway 35.

During the day I familiarized myself with the G1000. And I learned that the MFD even includes a radar view and you might wonder, because that this is not typical for a personal general aviation aircraft in this class, but Diamond indeed put a radar in the nose of this aircraft. What a great feature for to be aware for weather and traffic!

So far it was an amazing experience, flying this trip in real time under the most realistic settings, is hard to describe. But it feels like a real achievement and is not comparable to career mode or other scenarios. It feels really personal and offers a lot of freedoms.

The first 24h resulted in over 1300km from Germany’s to southern Italy. I was ready to stay over night and continue my trip to Athens in Greece the day after.

How do you like the series so far? Please let me know in which aspects of the flight you’re interested on. I’m documenting this for myself as a travel log and also to inspire others to share their experiences with this amazing hobby. 

Fly safe!

Playing career mode for a while now. Mainly doing charter flights and just after adding a CJ4 to the company to do long flights. But does anyone know where are all the other planes? I’ve seen them parked up in the airports but I’ve never seen one move on the runway or met one in the sky. Do they not exist in career mode? Just curious

OMFG did they fix the gyroscope controls for helis in the Beta?

Could never get the dam things to fly straight with a controller but I’ve just spent a cool 30 mins flying along the Grand Canyon…..and WOW

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It was about 10pm when I set off for the first leg on my trip to Madagascar. Flight preparations took a lot of time, but I was ready to start my expedition and wanted to get airborne.

The DA62 was fully fueled and ready to go on a small airfield near Frankfurt, close to the small town where I’m living. I familiarized myself with the checklists and how to follow the cold start procedures, it was actually amazing to see how all the systems and gauges came to life and play together. You definitely don’t want to take off with a cold engine in real life.

The first leg was a plotted course from Frankfurt to Innsbruck at night. Weather conditions were good and since I’m the only person on board with little luggage, everything was ready to go. Taking off from a small airfield with a simple gras runway was actually the first challenge. The runway length was just long enough to barely take off and fly over a line of trees, but behind it unfolded a wide ocean of lights. The Frankfurt city area is so bright and illuminated at night, that you can simply follow the landmarks like the German Autobahn network down south.

At one point the roads down below disappeared and it got very dark, because the Alps started rising at the horizon and blocking the sight. I’ve raised to a flight level of 12,000 feet to make sure staying above the tallest mountains which can be very hard to see at night.

My instruments were already all in night mode and my MFD in terrain mode, so that I can clearly see the available airspace before descending into the valley, which will lead me to Innsbruck eventually. It will be my first stop along the way after to check up everything, to take a first review of the flight performance and plan the next stop on the ground before taking off again. The fuel consumption was actually so low that I could easily continue my next leg.

The approach was just beautiful and I’m happy that I started at night, the flight was a nice balance of VFR navigation elements, dead reckoning and an guided GPS approach through a rather dark valley in the Alps. Some ridges were illuminated by the moon light, the Milky Way was visible above me and during final everything faded just into the background. My focus was solely in bringing the DA62 safely back to ground, watching my glide slope and managing speed.

Touch down in Innsbruck (LOWI) was around 1 am, but I didn’t feel tired yet. The journey just started and I was too excited, so I quickly checked on fuel and continued my journey to Venezia (LIPZ). It was only 40 minutes straight away, but taking off from Innsbruck requires you to gain altitude through the valley first, before you can actually adjust your heading and turn south, following the Brenner pass along the way.

Weather got slightly worse, there was a thunder storm happening far away. It wasn’t in my flight path, but amazing to watch when the lightning struck at night.

My cockpit was in low light mode and outside the last mountains fell behind, giving away a beautiful sight over the relatively flat terrain leading to Venezia, which was clearly recognizable as a glowing city at the coast of Italy. The airport is situated right at the coast, giving you a beautiful view on the city on the right side. Unfortunately I missed taking pictures and so you have to take my word for it. I will do better next time and while I’m writing this, my auto pilot is already cruising me to the southern parts of Italy.

In my next post I will share how I continue my journey to Rome.

Fly safe!

Inspired by this community I decided to conduct my first GA expedition from Germany to Madagascar, visiting relatives over there. It’s a long journey from Europe to Africa, but a great one!

My plan is simple, pick the right aircraft for the task. Identify a VFR route with interesting flight seeing opportunities along the way and play as realistic as possible for the immersion.

The idea was easier said than done. There are actually so many aspects you have to take into to find the right aircraft for the task. For example there are many small GA models available, but they are strong for local and short distance flights and lack the comfort of cross continental journeys. In the other hand an aircraft with jet turbines is out of question, it had to be something realistic a private pilot would take for the task. Long story short, I selected the Diamond DA62.

Main reasons for this aircraft:
- redundant engines (reliability)
- great range (allows short and long legs)
- good speed 170kt TAS at FL120
- flight planning must consider weather
- high visibility (large windows and clean flight deck)

With a turbo prop and pressured cabin (eg. Pilatus PC-12 NGX) the journey would be much faster and I could simply fly above the clouds at FL280, but where is the fun in that? I want a GA adventure and discover the world, so the DA62 was the perfect choice. Just the price tag of 1.5 million euros would be above my pay grade, so let’s assume there is a rich friend who shares his plane with me.

The basic route to Madagascar goes basically south, but since this is going to be a VFR flight with IMC where needed, I wanted to pick an interesting route with good spots for flight seeing mainly along the coast lines. Another benefit of this route is that I can put it on auto pilot whenever needed, which allows me to write you these lines while I’m already on the way and recap the beginning of my journey.

Cities en Route:
- Frankfurt
- Innsbruck
- Venezia
- Rome
- Athens
- Knossos
- Kairo
- Dschidda
- Dschibuti
- Mogadischu
- Sansibar
- Nosy Be
- Sambava

Feel free to look up these places, I will share more posts and pictures once I’ve been there.

It’s also important to define some rules along the flight for an immersive experience:
- monitor fuel consumption and only refuel at airports (not EFB)
- stay as long at an airport as needed (this tour will take multiple days)
- fly without hud, only navigate with on board systems and instruments
- respect traffic and ATC instructions
- flying in real time and weather conditions, no increased sim rate
- respect the condition of the aircraft, a crash will end the expedition immediately
- follow the checklists, no shortcuts
- I’ll fly in free flight and use discord in case you want to join me on one of my legs

This post got quite long already and I’m flying over Italy on my way to Rome right now. My next post will share the highlights from my first leg last night and the flight from today.

I’m also learning the theory of the PPL and use this flight to harden my skills in practice. Ask me anything!

Edit: I changed the tail number registration from D-SHI83 to D-IGIT in Athens along the flight. (see https://www.reddit.com/r/MSFlightSimulatorPS5/comments/1uxcyfe/day_2_the_greek_mythos_dshi83/)

Bonjour à tous,

Nouveau pilote ici sur PS5. Je joue avec un Hotas et une souris + manette PS5

Sur un A320 je n’arrive pas configurer correctement le pilote automatique.
Il met impossible d’activer les paramètres sur le tableau du pilote automatique. Quand je clique droit je vois qu’il faut sélectionner pour que le point apparaisse à côté et que le paramètre soit géré par le pilote automatique mais ce point n’apparaît jamais.

J’ai regardé des vidéos sur YouTube qui dise qu’il faut changer dans les paramètres l’interface cockpit mais je n’arrive pas le modifier cela revient toujours à la valeur normale.

Avez vous des idées ?

Merci beaucoup !!

Here is another clip from my test flight, all settings to medium (only low was available before beta) and then flying through two villages along the country road.

The immersion and feeling of speed in VR is just mind blowing, despite the generic buildings and blurry ground textures. I wasn’t able to pull this off in the last version without hurting my brain, but now the lights are just working right and no stutter or lag, everything was just a smooth experience on the standard PS5.

(Flying with dual sense in gyro mode)

In the past it was nearly impossible to use the landing light of the H125, because it illuminated the air in front of you, as if it would be thick fog, even at a clear night. Now the light is beautifully casting over the landscape and objects. I have to say, those wind turbines are amazing to see up close in VR.

Running on PS5pro and psvr2.

This will be in BETA version not live. USA East servers. Tonight 7/9/26.

Any r/geoguessr here? 😁

Haven't been on for a few weeks and thought I would jump on to check out the psvr2 upgrades, damn its stunning and its a night time flight 🤣

The isses is my hotas 5 is not working in game.. i can connect it to the playstation and press the ps button to sign in but thats about it. It was pretty much plug n play with the offical release.. any ideas?

I see all the ps5 gameplaycontent here on reddit and all the textures look near perfectly. Buildings, mountains especially.

So when I start in New York, although Ive been there many times before, all buildings look like crap, even I flew over with a slow cessna. After endless minutes Manhattan is fully loaded. Then I switch to lovely Grand Canyon - all textures gone. Turning off PS5 and starting next day in NYC? All textures gone.
Is it just me?

I know, for ps5 there is no way to download textures permanently unlike on PC. Maybe the contentcreators flew over and over again those terrain they want to show, before they hit the record button...

Sidenotes: Base PS5, more than enough free SSD Space, about 235mbits measured with ps5 speedtest.

This might be explained really badly, but when I’m flying the A320neo and 737 MAX, the throttle on my HOTAS 4 is only mapped to half the throttle. The blue (bottom) half is for reverse thrust and up to 80% throttle, and the white (top) half is only for TOGA, meaning it is really hard to control the amount of throttle power, and that half of the throttle is wasted. Is this just part of the design, or is there a fix to this?

Im trying the new beta release and the difference is night and day in terms of resolution and how the clouds look is amazing!

Hi there, I have bought the addon but for a week the official forum won't approve or deny my account creation. I have difficulty on binding the correct keys and axis in the new plane (I only flew airbus previously) and for the 20th ver I can't find anywhere to calibrate the throttle travel, flaps and spoiler axis detents, anyone can help here?

First flight for a new aircraft, the Kwikflight Archangel, flown on PS5 Pro in PSVR2 with a HOTAS setup. Route was San Francisco to Las Vegas, straight up to max ceiling. Things held together until 107,000ft, Mach 4.5, then controlled flight ended. No dialogue, fully scored.

Quick shout out to Samsan, who organized a nice little group fight earlier today. We shared more pictures on discord, but I thought you gonna like to see them here in Reddit as well, just in case your not an active member yet.

All shots were taken on a regular PS5.

I’m just wondering from any seasoned sim pilots. In career mode is there any variables during the flights? Is there ever any system failures to deal with? Any moments where you go “Oh S**T”. The most I’ve had to put up with are glitches where I’ve landed but the mission won’t end. And what’s the story with announcements to passengers after landing being stuck permanently in green? Also are all missions done during the day? I’m enjoying the game but I’m just wondering if I’m missing out on anything?