Welcome to the 118th flight event across the GUNNER DOWNUNDER series. This flight will be conducted in the mountainous jungle of Papua New Guinea , and 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.
Its simple!!!
The forecast for this flight is bad! But we are going anyway (“GetThereitis” in Aviation Medical speak).
This flight will be conducted in a tropical downpour that will swirl through, around, and over our planned flight path. This tropical storm will bring its very own challenges to the event, on top of already challenging mountainside jungle grass strips that we will be tasked to land on.
You will experience unsettling air turbulence/buffeting, mist, dense cloud, gentle rain, and torrential tropical downpours that will soak the grass runways and turn them into slippery mud strips that will have you Sliding & Colliding - sliding of the side/ends of runways and colliding with the dense tree coverage that surrounds all these jungle strips. Occassionally, you may be blessed with a break in the clouds revealing the landscape around you, but expect these rare appearances of sunshine to be brief.
Garmin, VFR map and LNM will be heavily relied upon in this event to get you into each jungle strip. Staying on the strip will be a whole other matter!!! 
Guaranteed!!!, no matter how hard you try to pull up your Caravan using judicious brake and reverse thrust methods to hold you on the runways.
So, be warned…this flight is going to be just one nightmare approach and landing after another.
See you on the departure rwy…IF you are up for a difficult and extremely challenging flight experience.
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 (horrendous)weather conditions. 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.
REMEMBER: In these flights the Grand Caravan is the aircraft to fly in.
When: Fri 24th Feb @ 2300UTC
Where: Papua New Guinea
Flight Duration: Approx 2.5 - 3hrs (depending on numbers attending)
Aircraft: Cessna Grand Caravan - if you have a different favorite aircraft then leave it in the hangar for this event (as always, as flight planned around Caravan performance)
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 (edited)
RECOMMENDATIONS
Cessna Caravan as all landing and other challenges built into flight are
tailored for this aircraft specifically. If you arrive in another aircraft type you will be ignored…
Turn Damage mode off as you will most likely suffer at least hard
landings if not full on crashes
Bring plenty of Duc Tape for running repairs
Crash Helmets are optional, Prayers are advisable
Embrace “SLEW” as it will be your friend by the end of the flight
Practicing to make Caravan landing approaches at IAS of between 40-50knts max will see you nailing difficult landings with ease and precision.
If you are new to these Gunner Downunder Challenging Flights, ensure you download the Caravan mod which can be found in the add-ons-and-downloads channel (mod is pinned to the top RHS of this channels screen) in Gunpilot’s Server. Download and extract into your Community folder and you will have the real life SUPPER 900 kit that is installed by Texas Turbine Coversions in the USA. Improved performance both in the air and on the ground.
Load this plan into your sim:
Gentle 2 Torrential.pln (7.8 KB)
Load this version of the plan into LNM for some WP remarks detail:
Gentle 2 Torrential.lnmpln (6.0 KB)
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 (horrendous)weather conditions. 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.