Welcome to the 137th flight event across the GUNNER DOWNUNDER series. This week we will be flying around Anchorage, Alaska, and the event is again guaranteed to give you more of the unique and challenging flight experience that you have come to expect from Gunpilot’s flight events.
This flight has us departing from Fort Crosby Airport (approx 150nm North of Anchorage, Alaska) and following the Susitna Rver south to our final desination of the Anchorage International Airport.
We will be departing at 2pm local time in January, with the sun already low on the horizon, and flying south with the setting sun in our eyes, increasing the difficulty of our flight as we locate and land on the bush strips dotted all along our route. As we progress along the planned route the available light will be continually diminishing, to the point that the last few landings will have us making the approaches in darkness. However, most of these rwys after dark will be have rwy lighting turned on to aid us in landing safely.
This flight will be a BACK2BLACK event. In this BACK2BLACK flight event, we will be flying in the BEECHCRAFT KING AIR .This twin engined low wing turbo prop aircraft is a much larger, faster, and more difficult aircraft to pilot…and that degree of difficulty is ratcheted up a further notch by having to put this aircaft into small Alaskan grass strips!!!
The objective of these Back2Black flights will be to see who can fly the whole event plan without damaging or stressing their planes to where their screen goes Black (failure & Damage options will be enabled in the Assistance Options in the sim) and they have to restart where they crashed, either by landing heavily, hitting trees on final approach, stalling, or a myriad of other ways that you can ruin your day in the cockpit. If no pilot makes it all the way from departure to destination without going back 2 black then it will be the pilot who has had the least instances of black screens that is declared the event winner.
Along the way there will be 3 locations where you can redeeem yourself if you have clocked up any Black Screens, allowing you to reduce your tally if you successfully complete one of these redemption challenges.
The weather will be clear (no weather file required to be loaded) and as the sun sets the night sky will light up with millions of stars, making for a great visual from inside the cockpit. All in all a great flight!!
Remember, you will be dropping onto the departure runway in a King Air!
When: Fri 30th June @ 2300UTC
Where: Alaska, USA
Flight Duration: Approx 2.5hrs (depending on numbers attending)
Aircraft: Beechcraft King Air
Server: SOUTH EAST ASIA
Discord Server: GUNPILOT’s Server . Click on this link and you will be sent a very welcoming INVITE that will enable you to fully participate in the radio chatter with all the other pilots in the flight
Voice Chat accessed by clicking on Comms Radio
(GUNPILOT’s Server ). If you are going to fly with us, ensure to join into the chatter on Comms Radio. If you don’t then you will miss out on a number of challenges that are given over the radio and you will have no idea what is going down.
Recommendation:
Have a practice session (or more) flying the King Air to familiarise yourself with this aircraft.
Load this version of the plan into your Sim:
Anchorage After Dark B2B.pln (11.9 KB)
Load this version of the plan into LNM:
Anchorage After Dark B2B.lnmpln (8.9 KB)