These are the flight plans for Zara Rutherford's FlyZolo world tour. You can find more information about her trip on her website. Many airports have been removed and added from the original planning. Zara uses the Shark Aero. The closest thing in MSFS is the VL-3 Evolution which is included in the standard edition of MSFS. Crispy136 created a beautiful livery for this! This livery is also available with the VL-3 915 Rotax improvement mod.
I decided not to create a bush trip for this tour as it has several limitations that take away realism. With a flight plan you can use ATC, choose your own plane, realistic refueling options and choose custom weather. Also, you are not faced with flying in the dark which happens in bush trips that cover many time zones.
Update 2.0
Instead of one big flight plan for the whole trip I decided to create the flight plans for each leg. This is more realistic. Also, MSFS tends to clear the flight plan in the Garmin GPS memory if you reload a previous saved flight. I will continue to add more legs when Zara continues her journey.
Missing Airports
Most airports are recommended, so far 4 are required as those airports don't exist in MSFS yet:
One airport is missing from MSFS that nobody has created yet: Aerodromo Los Campanos. So I've combined legs 19 and 20. When this airport is available I'll split these two legs.
10 days ago
Phaneron
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2 months ago
bianchengfengwoo
This is great. I have started the journey with the SuperHornet. Addictive, i'm now in Iceland and itching to continue my journey.
2 years ago
jezbez
Someone has created Aerodromo Los Campanos with fictional ICAO of SKVI, available here: https://flightsim.to/file/29376/aerodromo-los-campanos-skvi
2 years ago
Adams_SimPorium
Excellent work thank you very much. Fantastic acheivment by her what an experience it must have been.
2 years ago
KatanaDV20
Thanks to you I started my journey around the world following zara ...
Feel free to follow and join ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB7EHMN0dZE&list=PL6CeotqynxwKapij8nSZP8jirzQ_54Ynd
2 years ago
anisham
Nice work, I've been following her for her entire journey.
2 years ago
Elwood26
I try to load a flight plan in MSFS2020 and and error message occur, that say me the flight plan is not in good format and not load.
2 years ago
Which leg did you try to load and gave you an error?
2 years ago
Dwaalicht
JDB
Can you please create flightplans for leg 19 & 20 even the airports aren't there.... so we can divert to the nearest?
2 years ago
Done. I've added legs 19 and 20 as one combined leg. You can try to land at Aerodromo Los Campanos (missing) or at the nearest airport.
2 years ago
Dwaalicht
Captain_Flatfeet
I was able to catch up with her using the Enhanced Live traffic. She was over Panama. Sent her the video and got a response!
3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebl4E8iMzgA
2 years ago
roswellsoaps
roswellsoaps
hello, I'd like to know, guys, what meteo you use for this superb trip. I was using real life one but today, in groenland (BGKK - BGBW) I saw absolutely nothing (very bad weather). Not cool. I know that in real life ( and it's surely what Zara do) I should have waited a better weather but I play when I can, like you maybe... so ?
3 years ago
As far as I know MSFS does not support historic weather yet. Rex Simulations is working on developing this for their product but no release date for that yet unfortunately.
3 years ago
Dwaalicht
gol
I am following this route and having the time of my life. This is awesome.
3 years ago
You can follow Zara's progress here: https://www.instagram.com/fly.zolo/ and here: https://yb.tl/flyzolo#
3 years ago
Dwaalicht
Oldfogey
Prachtig ! ik volg de trip van Sara en ben van plan om deze in de wintermaanden over te doen in MSFS met het JMB-VL3 vliegtuig.
3 years ago
Ook mee bezig nu... lange uren :D
2 years ago
Captain_Flatfeet
pbeuckels
Absolutely amazing work and saved me a ton of time! Am getting the GTN750 mod soon and was going to follow this route on a round world flight to really test it out so this is amazing. I totally agree with what the other comment says that the VL3 is probably more accurate. It flies maybe 10kts slower than the optimal cruise speed for the Shark Aero , but has a slightly longer range. However I do think the Vertigo is a great choice if want to go faster but without having to use a bigger aircraft. I'd personally love a Shark Aero for this (especially if used the GTN750 mod integration) and just think a way to celebrate Zarah's attempt is something MSFS should be doing officially but I am so pleased you have took this on. Just need someone to make the livery for an aircraft suitable with a paint kit given the VL3 seems to now have one as would love to use that for my flight, otherwise will use the VL3. Cheers!
3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. I've changed the description. Is this the mod you mentioned https://pms50.com/msfs/ ?
3 years ago
Dwaalicht
DaRadicalCavy
Very good planning. World tours are awesome. I wish I had a Shark UL for MSFS. By the way, the closest available in MSFS is the default Czech VL3 Evolution. Both share the same 100 Hp Rotax engine. Vertigo mod changes the engine to a turboprop pressurized plane which is way off the Shark UL. VL3 will do fine.
3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. I've changed the description.
3 years ago
Dwaalicht
hjcoelho