About the Events category

Use the category to announce, promote and discuss all your Infinite Flight events.

  • Topic titles must include start location and time of the event in the following format:
    Event Title @ ICAO - DDHHMMZMONYY
    • Event Title: The title of your event. Keep it short and original!
    • ICAO: The 4-letter airport code the event’s significant location. (e.g. KDEN)
      • This can either be your starting location or your fly-in/arrival location.
    • DD: Day of the month (e.g. 18th of June = 18)
    • HHMM: Time of your event in Zulu time (e.g. 1pm CST (UTC -6) = 1900)
    • Z: Simply the letter ‘Z’ to indicate the time is in Zulu time
    • MON: 3-letter abbreviation for the month of your event (e.g. January = JAN)
    • YY: Last 2 digits of the year of your event (e.g. 2015 = 15)

EDIT: The ICAO space does not need to be an ICAO. Most events usually have a common departing or arriving airport. In that case, go ahead and use that common airport’s ICAO. However, some events (such as FNF or TT) tend to use entire regions instead of specific airports. In that case, it would be appropriate to use that event’s region name instead of a specific airport. For example:

Friday Night Flight - Airbus vs Boeing @ London - 041830ZMAR16

  • Time in the title must always be in Zulu time. You are free to include times for the popular timezones in the content of your post. (Click here to convert to and from Zulu time). Remember that event’s will be converted to any user’s local timezone when they see the event displayed on Infinite Flight’s home menu!

  • New event topics have a template that should be followed as closely as possible in order to be displayed correctly in-app.

  • Once the event ends, please edit your topic title and add “[Closed]” to the front of the title:
    Blue Angels @ KSFO - 030900ZAUG15
    [Closed] Blue Angels @ KSFO - 030900ZAUG15

  • Remember to post your best event screenshots in the comments of event’s original topic!

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Suggestion:

Whenever an unofficial, so not hosted by FDS, event is organized on the advanced server the option of “deny entry, event in progress” should not be used. Incase people want to have their own event where they can deny entry it should be hosted on the playground instead.

In my opinion it is not fair for the people on advanced who have no idea about an “unofficial” event to be ghosted or entry denied while following all rules / procedures.

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Continuing the discussion from New IF menu!:

Make sure all events have the format @ ICAO - DDHHMMZMONYY
This is very important as the events are pulled from the forum. Any mistake in the title might cause it to not show!

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We will explain this more in-detail when the update is released

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Bumping to highlight recent changes

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I somehow can’t post any events. The +new topic button is grayed out…

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You don’t have the required Trust Level. You need TL2 and above to create a topic.

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Whenever I want to participate in an event (i.e. VA Challenge), I can’t reply to any posts. Can you help me fix this, or is this just based on ranking?

I appreciate your help.

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That’s interesting,

You can post on any topic in the forum as basic user so that should not be the problem. Just send a PM to @MishaCamp for sure he can help I don’t have that much time and about to hit the bed.

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Okay, thank you sir. I have solved the issue now.

I appreciate your help.

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Can’t wait to host my events! I have a series in planning!

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A question, can you (in the title) have two airports? Like fly from one airport or another?

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No choose, I’ve seen your event, either day “Sydney” (as the region) or just say one

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I guess it’s the airport the event is starting in. For example, a flight from I YSSY - YSCB. Then, YSSY is the airport to put in the title.

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I created an event and in the app it shows “Aug 23, 2017 at @” is there a reason this is occurring.

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That is purely how the app interprets the IFC title. The main reason why we have to do these precise titles is so the app can change it into an event on the home page.

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How do you get categories like e.g. live event,general etc
Do you download them.?

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Press the 3 horizontal lines in the top right and click on the category you want to go to

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How do you make writing bold and sideways

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@United-Express
Bold text: ** (text) **
Italicized text: * (text) *
(No spaces)

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