want to start a topic about adventure flying in the Americas - Hollywood did it so we can do it:
Transport contraband substances, collect herbal harvest, deliver dollares and chemicals, shuttle bosses, sicarios & girls:
Use anything, from Cessnas, King Airs, Old Props, Amphibians to Jets: alone, unregulated and unafraid.
If you are a law abiding citizen and feel uneasy - switch sides and go in as a DEA or CIA pilot - “its not a crime if you are doing it for the good guys”.
beautiful landscape up to 10000ft - and mucho drug cartel activity.
High density of default & difficult dirt strips, DEM well rendered. You are encouraged to look on Bing Maps for more clandestine airfields not in the sim - there are plenty…
Also lotsa suitable country roads, forest clearings, river beds to land on to spice it up.
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Fast, 7 stops warmup roundtrip in the mountains behind Culliacan
shortest runway: 800ft - some strips with a Lukla-type stopper rockface, so choose your aircraft carefully.
MEXICO: Sinaloa to Durango Provinces dr_mex_2.PLN (5.1 KB)
a multi-pickup flight thru spectacular landscape.
Shortest runway: 880ft - plus bush landings (“custom” WPs) on river beds , village roads, forest clearings.
If you are painted by some gringo airborne radar - duck into the canyons…
Do some pick-ups of men & material along the way (WPs “LZ”). Before the VRAEM zip low into the canyons and under the ridges to impede detection.
Check the VRAEM area thoroughly (WPs “V1-5”): can you see the old strips, are there alternatives?
a long distance haul from the southern Amazonas provinces to the north shore with some exciting stops along. dr_col_1.PLN (5.3 KB)
Use the Cordillera Central as radar cover by flying low - not all air traffic controllers are on the payroll.
best for Old Props like DC-6, upcoming C-47 & Antonovs (Ukraine Supplying Planes to Colombia Drug Traffickers) or smaller jets.
I flew the beautiful south and central americas already and, beside I wish my objectives should be less harming to humans than drug crime, I wonder why they seem to have so few actors in hollywood to need to hire the same ones over and over and over again
BOLIVIA: the Argentina corridor:
Bolivia is one of the biggest drug producers and it sends its herbs not only up north - in the other direction is an important consumer base too, being served by planes.
The route (Big Props and King Airs) is heavily patrolled by Pucaras & Tucanos so stay invisible between the hills - somewhat made easy as the ridgelines are all parallel to your course. dr_bol_3.PLN (3.3 KB)
It takes you from the Amazon rainforest (with some stops) closer to the mayor cities of Argentina.
ever since the days of il Presidente (and CIA agent…) Manuel „Cara de Piña“ Noriega, Panama is a central hub for drug flights. The country’s “Darien Gap” is one of the wildest and most dangerous places on earth:
You will do a return flight south, distributing dollares to locals along the coast first and then bringing much needed chemicals to hidden herbal processing labs deep in the jungle. dr_panam_d_gap.PLN (6.2 KB)
As its the first flight after the rainy season, always check the situation at those GPS-WPs:
dry river beds might be flooded, last year’s strips overgrown, village roads blocked - circle and improvise, it all depends on your bushplane type and flying skills.
You end up in Colombia, awaiting further orders.