From file: C-46 Ice Piloting a bit...

[Piston Paul]

[aeroart]

Paul,

Without taking too much of your time, how are those multi-airplane flights done?

Art

[Randy_Cain]

Hi,

Not speaking for Paul or those screenshots, there's 2 ways I know of that you can do it:

1. Mutliplayer! ;D ....like FSVintageAir.com ..where we do our flights each Saturday. The only trick is getting together with your friends ahead of flight time to make sure each of you have the planes that each of you will be flying. ...so that everyone sees the plane each is actually in...paint job and all.
That's the way we did this one yesterday that Tom posted:

Before we were done, we were 13 pilots and at least 12 planes.

2. Flight Recorder. This can take up a lot of harddrive space, so be careful..... like capturing video or music. You start the flight and turn the "Flight Video" recorder on. The smaller the recording interval, the LARGER the output file will be! Fly the flight in the plane you want to "fly with", then once your done. (The shorter interval would be if you want to do aerobatics, racing or other precision manuevers, otherwise for a striaght GPS track, the longer interval is just fine..and the smaller the file will be for a flight the same length.) Now, hop in a plane at the airport you started at and you'll see the plane you just flew getting ready to taxi (if that's where you started recording) and you can fly the flight again along with the plane and flight you just flew. That's about it. ;D

Edit: Ooops, I guess I should have added a few steps to that. After you record the flight, you'll need to create a new flight in the plane you want to accompany yourself in. THEN replay the flight and fly along. The time, date and weather are NOT recorded, so you can start that replay any time or date. ..but you can't change where you flew from or to.

Yours,

[Piston Paul]

No, no , nothing fancy like that !

It's nothing but AI traffic.
In this case, I used T-Tools to make a flight plan from Yellowknife and formate on an AI PBY which flies the route. The thing with AI traffic is, that although they fly straight to an airport, every other minute or so they make some small turns along the way. Makes formation flying a challenge.
Fun to do.

Below Cochabamba, Bolivia...I'm the C-46 in the middle. ;D