DC-3 Airways Annual World Tour

nice shots!
I flew this leg yesterday, but I found it a lot darker than in your images. Might by the cloud cover.

Leg two of the World Tour flights was long but interesting flight. The sun was setting at LQBK upon my arrival: calming and very scenic! Here are a few pics:







Looking forward to Leg 03 in a couple of days!!

Norm (Pilot 012)
(MSFS2024 > nbrich1)

Using the "WayBackMachine", the results of the DC-3 World Rally 2003.


Results of the 2003 DC-3 World Rally

Have a good look at the number of entries: 179!

FL02 LOWG - LQBK
Route: LOWG GBG MR RK BRZ TNJ KOS
This flight goes with NDB navigation overflying the beacons. No T&G, nor other big challenges such as deep narrow valleys. Luckily my radio is working fine, and distances are within range of this or that beacon, so no worry in getting lost. There is one sharp curve to make on top of BRZ NDB beacon, where we turn East to our destination.
As we departed around 18:00 hrs, we had to make a landing in the dark. Luckily all aircraft lights were working and the RW lights we bright enough to see it from afar.


turn over BRZ

approach LQBK , in the dark.

Alan and Mike, thanks for your advises. We will take that with us for next year.
Roy

You can get the latest Navaids updates for your FS9/FSX/P3D sim at Herve Sors site.

Quote from: Ard-WT on Oct 04, 2026, 02:54 AMam surprised you gained again sufficient height to cross the mountains to the East.

I flew down the valley to the east to gain the altitude but it was close.

Some of the waypoints in the published flight plan might contain waypoints that no longer exist in your particular simulator's world. I fly twice a week or so with the A2A Misfit Squadron, and this happens frequently. We've got the original flight plan, created either on LNV, or maybe on SkyVector. Either way, all we get on the A2A Forum is a bunch of instructions and other data, along with a link to the flight plan on SkyVector. I get the flight plan off of SkyVector and copy/paste it into the Flight PLan Route Description window in SkyVector. Quite often one or two of the waypoints don't show up, either in my P3D version of LNV, or maybe in my Reality XP GTN 650 or 750.

Here are a couple possible fixes:

If a waypoint is not showing in the flight plan, simply add that point into your flight plan by moving the magenta line to add in a new WPn. Or, if you wanna get fancy, add in a custom user waypoint at the Lat/Long coordinates of the missing waypoint.

I then save my tweaked flight plan using the multiexport button, with one flight plan going to my .PLN folder, and another going to the Garmin GTN750 flight plan folder. Here's what works for my RXP GTNs: [C:\ProgramData\Garmin\Trainers\Databases\FPLN]; you'll have to find what your GPS setup uses for flight plan stashage.

OK - what if the crazy guy who made our fight plan included a private airstrip that doesn't show up on my GTN? I check to see if waypoints are "blocked" before our flight. I create a user waypoint at that Lat/Long location in my Garmin GTN in place of the blocked waypoint, giving it the same ID as the ICAO code for that airport.

This happened to me on Flight 2, which is an easy flight through some nice scenery with navigation provided by a series of NDBs. One of 'em was missing in my particular setup. It showed up in my LNV flight plan window as a little red triangle. Bummer. I clicked on the little red triangle in the map display and moved it a tiny smidge, and it appeared as a valid WP1. Saved into LNV and my Garmin folder no sweat. We flew it last night in my MJ C-47 and didn't fall out of the sky or crash the sim as we flew over WP1.

Hope that helps, man.

Seeya
 ATB

that is great, must be a very sharp turn with steep descend. I am surprised you gained again sufficient height to cross the mountains to the East.

Quote from: Alan1-WT on Sep 21, 2026, 10:26 PMHello!

I was wondering if it would be possible for someone who's using FS9 to create a set of Flight Plans (in .pln form) covering the 10 Flights in this Year's World Tour? It would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, and Good Luck to everyone participating!

Alan Nakamura 

Alan, on the Downloads page where the WT Flights can be downloaded, scroll to the bottom of the page where there is a link to a Flight Plan Converter for FS9.