We are now accepting tour submissions!
If you have a great tour idea that you think other members might enjoy, it’s no longer necessary to make a tour suggestion on our Discord server - just create it instead! Put together a flight plan in Little Navmap, export it and upload it to our Discord server. If you’re unfamiliar with Little Navmap, it’s a great little tool that should be in every virtual pilot’s flight bag. Create flight plans, navigate, locate airfields, follow traffic - these are just some of the things you can do with it. You can download it from this link:
https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html
To create your tour, and if you’d like to submit it for inclusion in the Virtual Airline, you must set a valid departure and arrival airfield for each leg - and each leg must start and end at an airfield with a valid ICAO code that’s present in MSFS. The arrival airfield for the previous leg becomes the departure airfield for the following leg. You cannot use waypoints or coordinates as a leg departure or arrival point if you’d like to submit it to be uploaded to the Virtual Airline. Take a look at current tours here to familiarise yourself with the tour structure. If you install Little Navmap onto the same PC as your MSFS installation, you can sync your database so that Little Navmap will only display airfields present in MSFS.
Our airline founder, Jonathan Beckett, has already created a video demonstrating how Little Navmap works, so it’s well worth checking it out if you’re new to it:
Once you’ve created your flight plan, export it in the native Little Navmap flight plan file format and upload it to our dedicated Discord channel, together with a brief write up about the tour:
https://discordapp.com/channels/750398586851688499/1230540468769525961
Sadly, we won’t be able to accommodate every tour submitted at the Virtual Airline, but we will add the best and most popular submitted tours. Be sure to check the above channel regularly and add a thumbs up to any tours you’d like to see added to the Virtual Airline. Any tours not added to the Virtual Airline can still be flown by any member who wishes to fly them by downloading and importing the flight plan into their own installation of Little Navmap.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with! If you need any help with or advice about Little Navmap along the way, you can utilise our Discord support channel here:
https://discordapp.com/channels/750398586851688499/1129821251922309231
If you have any questions or need advice specifically about the structure of the Virtual Airline tours then add a post to the Airline Support channel here:
https://discordapp.com/channels/750398586851688499/1213949412955398194
Tour lengths should have limited stops....I notice one of the latest has 69 legs. Assuming one is able to do a leg each week that would take over a year to complete the tour...ridiculous! I think they should be limted to say 20-25 legs at the most.