IYP Tours!

Designing Tours
Let's suppose that you had created a number of flight plans as part of a journey. During the development process, you discovered that this collection of flights formed a very interesting and/or challenging scenario. Since there were many places of interest along the way, you decided that you'd like to share this wonderful experience with other simmers.

Before IYP Tours
In the past, as a tour designer, you would have packaged these flights in a specific order to build a Tour Package. You would then have published your work freely on the Web, or for a price. Interested simmers would have downloaded the Tour Package, created the necessary folders, installed the requisite files in the right folders, and printed out the tour documentation. The simmer would then have flown the described routes by following the instructions: looking for certain landmarks, turning the aircraft to new bearings at certain defined points, etc. However, in many instances the simmer would miss a landmark or turn point, get way off course and as a result, their experience would have been substantially reduced. In fact, many simmers simply gave up out of frustration because of their inability to fully understand the author's intentions.

Enter IYP Tours
The inclusion of IYP Tour Narration to your Microsoft Flight Simulator flights adds an entirely new dimension for flight simmers.   The IYP Tour Designer permits an author with ZERO technical knowledge to jump right in and create fun and riveting tour flights.   Just pause the simulator, pick an event, type the narration, listen to the narration and save it.   Done!

IYP Tours are NOT Missions!

It must be well understood, that an IYP Tour is ABSOLUTELY NOT THE SAME as a Microsoft FSX Mission.

• An IYP Tour is NOT a MISSION.   Rather, it is a way for tour authors to easily and effectively share their flight visions with others.

• The IYP Tours will run on both FS9 (FS2004) and FSX.

CLICK HERE to listen to our lovely Australian Co-Pilot Michelle introducing the Captain to their flight from Oceano to Half Moon Bay, California!

CLICK HERE to listen to the Introduction of a Tour Flight from Stehekin State airport to Lake Wenatchee State airport.   This Tour Flight is part of a Tour Package created by Jaap van Hees of the Netherlands.   The actual package consists of 20 individual Tour flights.

CLICK HERE to listen to our Co-Pilot Mike explaining to the Captain where they are, what he should do, and when he should do it, as they approach Lake Wenatchee State airport!

All current versions of It's Your Plane, including the 15-Day Trial Edition, can execute and fly IYP Tours.

• It takes JUST ONE CLICK for an IYP user to install a Tour Flight... It's that simple!

• IYP Tours uses Text-To-Speech, so that co-pilots Michelle and/or Mike narrate the tour.
  

There is little doubt that having a co-pilot ( Michelle or Mike ) "talking" to the pilot throughout the flight, makes it a far more fulfilling experience for simmers. Instead of reading a document while attempting to fly a specific route, the Pilot "hears" the tour author's intentions and directions at precise points along the way.

There are only a few available Tour Flights, but more will be coming soon.

A number of users have already flown Tour Flights.   Please take a few minutes to visit

Michelle's Pilot Lounge

to read their experiences and share yours with others.   If you are not already a member of our forums, it takes just a fews seconds to join.   Thanks a lot.

Click HERE for more details about IYP Tours.