In no way trying to compete with the other excellent Zara Rutherford route plan available on this website, I just want to share my version as well.
Basically what I wanted to achieve is not just to follow her flight by flying airport to airport but to be actually able to follow Zara's route as close to her real life flight path as possible. To this end, I utilized the awesome flight tracker on her website. Going leg by leg I copied the GPS coordinates of all visible heading changes (so basically all significant flight direction changes) and using LittleNavmap I created flight plans for all of these flight legs based on these coordinates. All in all the 68 flight legs are made up of 1602 waypoints. Yes, you are right, this was slave work and I'm totally nuts for doing it, but anyways I found it to be fun. :-)
And because I'm lazy, I also created final approaches in LittleNavmap for each airport where there are no ILS to follow. Some of these approaches are quite short though :-) because of sorrounding terrain, so a visual approach is advised instead of fully relying on the autopilot. There are two flight plans for each leg, so you can choose the runway direction best suited for your prevailing winds when you are flying the flightplan. I heard there is a bug with VFR flight plans in MSFS2020, the game adds strange waypoints to the loaded flightplan called TIMECLIMB and TIMEAPPROACH, which messes up the autopilot while following the plan. The current workaround is to use IFR flight plans, so for completeness there are IFR flight plans included as well. Also a summary pdf with recommended cruise altitudes and ILS frequencies where applicable. Departure and Arrival times given in the pdf are also from the flight tracker on the FlyZolo website, yellow coloring means the time is an approximation because apparently the tracker has not worked correctly at those times (when you replayed the given flight leg on the tracker, the little airplane icon sort of "drifted" very slowly, like at a speed of 0.7 knots as if it were flying, but in reality it was still on the ground evidenced by the fact that when the tracker started working again, speed suddenly jumped to the normal cruising speed of around 140 - 150 knots).
The flight plans are saved as MSFS2020 .pln files, but if you download LittleNavmap and load a flight plan, you can save it in lots of different formats. LittleNavmap is an awesome and totally free flight planning and moving maps software, which can be found here: https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html
No doubt there might be errors or mistakes despite my best efforts, so if you find any bugs, or problems when following these flight plans, it would be appreciated if you could point them out in a comment below.
Don't know who Zara Rutherford is? Update your knowledge quickly by pointing your browser to her website at www.flyzolo.com or to facebook.com/flyzolo
Hey thanks all for the kind words, gives me inspiration to go on. 😊 New version 1.20 is just uploaded with flight plans up to Leg 20 of the world tour.
3 years ago
rpotor
Thanks for you exhaustive and excellent work. I was doing exactly the same task (only 2 flights up to now). This has saved me a lot of work.
3 years ago
ju_karl
I'm another one of those crazy nuts for following along in the JMB VL-315. This will be my first ever around the world flight. It is great to be able to break it down into reasonable legs. Thank you for your contribution. I'm currently stuck in Alaska too.
3 years ago
Oldfogey
Thanks for your work. I have been following her as well on a JMB VL-315 on MSFS. actually met her when she arrived in Jacksonville FL
3 years ago
intedeco
Awesome thank you! Been shadowing her on MSFS 2020 using enhanced traffic. Sent her a copy of the video from MSFS of me chasing her, she told me not to crash into her next time. If anyone gets video she is "Shark 1" send me a copy!
3 years ago
roswellsoaps