If you want to reach the most people the easiest way is probably to:
- Announce your upcoming tour(s) on the Flight Simulator Communty Fly-In Events forum by creating a new calendar entry
- Example: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/tell-tours-switzerland-from-north-to-south-leg-1/335342
- The description does not have to be as long as in the given example, but it should contain the following information:
- What is the purpose (sight-seeing, bush flying, IFR flying, ...)
- Type of airplane(s)
- Server, communication (voice chat) and optional weather settings
- Who is the expected audience ("everyone welcome", "experienced pilots", "knowledgable in ATC communication", ...)
- Use the official Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) Discord server for communication & streaming: https://discord.gg/msfs
- You also need to announce your tour in Discord in order that the MSFS administrators know about it and open up the "event channel"
- Do so by filling out the form that you find pinned at the top of the #community-flyins text channel (under "How to submit an event")
- It is highly recommended to link to your previously generated announcement in the Flight Simulator Communty Fly-In Events forum
- Communication (usually restricted to Discord push to talk settings!) will take place in one of the two Event #1 / Event #2 voice channels (in the [EVENTS] section on the left-hand side on Discord)
- They are normally locked (only one person is allowed to join)
- In order to have an event channel unlocked (and renamed to something like "My Flight Tour") ask an MSFS administrator like 30 minutes before the event (reference your scheduled event by name or by URL)
- You see which administrators are online on the right-hand side: simply give them a note e.g. in the #flight-events-bot channel, by prefixing their name with an @
- Example: "Hello @NameOfAdministrator, I am online and preparing my 4th leg of "Tell Tours - Switzerland" (https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/tell-tours-switzerland-hot-potato-leg-4/345071/). I am currently in channel Event #2"
- They usually react within a minute or so and unlock the corresponding event channel for you
- You can then talk ("push to talk"!) to your participants and share (stream) your FS 2020 application
- After the event it is polite to let them know that they can lock the event channel again, e.g.:
- "Hello @NameOfAdministrator, the "Tell Tours - Switzerland" event is officially over, the event channel can be closed again. Thank you!"