Europe Sightseeing Charter
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This flight is optimized for the new MSFS/FS2020 Simulator, but will work well with P3D/FSX orbx and likely FlightGear scenery, although some of the sites may be missing in those simulators depending on your scenery install. In checking Orbx and P3D, I find I'm suprisingly missing Neuschwanstein Castle, although there's addon payware Orbx scenery that will give you this, and possibly some freeware also. The rest of the scenery except the chateaus appear to be included with P3D FTX Global Vector and perhaps FSX.
This flight takes about 6 hours in a Twin Otter, allowing a little time to find some of the sights. Anything faster than the Otter might make circling sights, finding them, and following roads difficult. Kodiak is a poor choice for this because of its tendency to fall out of the sky at low speeds. DHC2 might be good for finding the sights, but the long hauls to and from several areas in the Beaver might be too much for impatient pilots. It's also small for a group on a charter, but you can pick the best suitable aircraft in your hangar for this flight.
Pilot's Briefing
The following link is for the zip-file containing two flight plans, one for MSFS and one for FSX/P3D:
https://stpaulairlines.com/index.php/multiplayer-flight-plans
Use Flight Number 902002 for any PIREPs filed for this flight.
This charter has been divided into four different flights, each starting and ending at an airport so that you might do these on multiple days if you wish.
Note: You will want to look at the Passenger Itinerary to familiarize yourself with the various sights to help you recognize them from the air. In addition to the flight plan, FS2020/MSFS can use the Assistance setting for showing landmarks, but this might mess up any nice photos you wish to take for posting to the photo gallery. Unlike the animals, the buildings don't move around so you should be able to find them without this setting by just using the flight plan and pictures of what you're looking for.
Your flight starts at Munich Airport (EDDM). Pick a suitable parking place for your plane and board your passengers.
Upon taking off, your passengers can get settled in for a 61-mile flight to the first site, Hohensalzburg Castle in Austria.
The next stop is the Neuschwanstein Castle, about 94-miles farther along.
The next stop is quite a distance, 251.5-miles to Cologne Cathedral. That makes it over 400-miles traveling for your passengers, so they're ready for a break. You will be landing them at Leverkusen (EDKL) for the night.
Your passengers have had a great time at the hotel, and have now returned to Leverkusen for their next day of sightseeing. Take off from EDKL and fly them to the next site 101-miles away,
the Atomium in Brussels. From there you will fly them to Persan-Beaumont (LFPA) for your passengers to stretch their legs and have lunch. When ready to continue, take off from LFPA and give your
passengers a whirl-wind tour of Paris starting just 16.8 miles away:
16.8 miles to Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre
1.7 miles to Grand Palais
1 mile to The Louvre
0.8 miles to Luxembourg Palace
1.1 miles to Les Invalides
0.7 mils to the Eiffel Tower
0.3 miles to Trocadero (Palais de Chaillot)
7.5 miles to the Palace of Versailles
Now fly on to Loiret, France 63.1 miles to Château de Sully-sur-Loire before landing your passengers for the night at Orléans-Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Airport (LFOZ) just 11.5 miles farther.
Your passengers are once again delivered to the airport and ready for their final day of the charter. Take off from LFOZ and fly past the Chateaus:
31.1 miles to Chateau de Chambord
24.7 miles to Chateau d'Amboise
44.1 miles to Chateau de Saumur
Now settle in for the 101-mile flight to Le Mont-Saint-Michel before ending the charter at Pleurtuit-St Malo Airport (LFRD) where your passengers will disembark and return home.
Passenger Itinerary
Embark at Munich |
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Hohensalzburg Castle |
Neuschwanstein Castle
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Cologne Cathedral
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Atomium
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Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre
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Grand Palais
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Louvre Museum
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Luxembourg Palace
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Les Invalides
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Eiffel Tower
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Trocadero - Palais de Chaillot.jpg)
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Palace of Versailles
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Château de Sully-sur-Loire
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Chateau de Chambord
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Chateau de Saumur
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Disembark at Pleurtuit-St Malo |
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