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What are invitations?

You've just loaded the simulator, you have a flight in mind, but you have nobody to fly with. Invitations are a great way to invite others to join you.

Prerequisites

Configure your multi-player settings

• If you want to see other people within the simulator, you'll need Flight Simulator configured for "All Players" in the flight conditions settings, and you'll need to be connected to the same in-game server as the rest of your group. Check the notes for the event or invitation you are responding to, and failing that, ask in the Discord event voice channel.

Join Discord to talk to each other

• If you want to listen to and talk to others in flight, you will need to join the Discord server. Discord is an application you can run alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator, and provides excellent live voice-chat and screen-sharing facilities for free.

• Within Discord you will find the Invitations Forum, and the Invitations Voice Chat channels.

How can I find out when new invitations are posted?

• Visit the Invitations Forum in Discord

• Click on the Bell icon at the top of the forum

• Tick the "New Posts Created" tick-box

That's it! Now you'll be notified when new invitations are posted.

How do I respond to an invitation?

• All you need to do is arrive in the right place, at the right time, on the right multi-player server. Look in the Invitations Forum, where (hopefully) the author will have recorded all the basic information you might need.

• PLEASE read the information about the flight. Having 30 people ask "which server are we on?" gets really old, really quickly.

Where are invitations advertised?

• Invitations are listed in the Discord server in the Invitations Forum channel.

• If you see anybody in the Invitations Voice Chat channel, why not join them?

Can I create my own invitations ?

Yes! Just post a new topic in the Invitations Forum.

Here area few tips:

• Prefix your topic title with the date in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format, and use UTC time - e.g "2024-02-01 18:00 UTC Exploring Southern California"

• In the body of your topic, remember to tell everybody the multiplayer server you are using, and the ICAO code of the airport you are starting from.

• Hang out in the Invitations Voice Chat channel while flying - don't be shy!

Rules

• If joining the Discord server for voice communications during the flight, conversation must remain family friendly, respectful, and not stray into any subjects that may offend such as adult jokes, politics, religion, racism, drugs, or hate-speech.