Welcome to the 141st flight event across the GUNNER DOWNUNDER series. This week we will be flying thru Central Brazil in South America, 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 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 Brazilian Jungle dirt 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.
The strips we will be landing on are quite challenging due to some tricky approaches that can/will catch you out if you don’t take care to work out which end of the runway to approach from.
Plus there are a few jungle terrain landings to further test your piloting skills. Along the way there will be 3 locations where you can redeem 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 be a bit gloomy as we are flying in the monsoon season , but apart from a very low ceiling, nothing too challenging.
*Again, a packaged up WEATHER file has been developed and included along with the flight plan, negating any need for anyone to dial in weather settings, as well as ensuring that all pilots are experiencing exactly the same weather conditions. The Weather Preset file is located in #gunpilots-events (click GUNPILOT’s Server to be taken there). Extract file into your Community Folder prior to launching your sim for the flight.
Also on this flight, a Community Folder add-on has been included for you to extract and place into your Community Folder along with the Weather file. This additional add-on is a real bonus in that it provides you with well over a hundred extra small mining camp bush strips in the jungle that MSFS2020 sim does not show. This add-on will provide you with hours of enjoyment exploring these little dirt strips, and will come in handy on this flight.
This scenery add-on file is located in #gunpilots-events (click GUNPILOT’s Server to be taken there). Extract file into your Community Folder prior to launching your sim for the flight.**
Remember, you will be dropping onto the departure runway in a Beechcraft King Air!
When: Fri 28th July @ 2300UTC
Where: Brazil
Flight Duration: Approx 2.5 to 3hrs (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.
Load this plan into your sim:
Brazil Back2Black.pln (6.8 KB)