Gunpilot's Challenging Flights - Bali & the "Venus Fly Trap"

Welcome to the 7th flight event in the Gunpilot’s Challenging Flights adventure series. This challenging flights event is located on the holiday resort island of BALI in Indonesia and is again guaranteed to give you more of the heart pounding and sweaty palms experience that you have come to expect from Gunpilot’s flight events. It has been nicknamed “VENUS FLY TRAP” and along the route you may get trapped just as the plant traps the fly.(edited)

On this flight we will depart from the International airport in Dempasar and challenge our landing skills around the coast adjacent to this sprawling metropolis before heading into the interior of this large island where we will play chicken with a number of volcanoes, some being extinct while others are merely dormant (and hopefully will stay that way for the duration of our flight). We will be landing inside at least 2 volcanoes and one will definitely present a challenge, not in getting in to land, but rather being able to successfully exit the volcano without having to resort to the old SLEW technique. Again, if you bring your “A” game to the flight, you should be able to extricate yourself from the volcano’s clutches. As per normal, there will be a gliding challenge, gliding 10nm from the rim of one volcano to the rim of another.

When: Thursday 21st Jan 2021 @ 1930hrs UTC

Where: BALI - Indonesia

Flight Duration: Approx 3hrs (depending on numbers attending)

Aircraft: Cessna Grand Caravan (as always as flight planned around Caravan performance)

Server: SOUTH EAST ASIA

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Z5f5nkETQS (& go to gunpilots-challenging-strips channel)

Flight Plan: Venus Fly Trap Bali.pln (5.4 KB)

Voice Chat accessed by clicking on Event Flight

RECOMMENDATIONS:

  1. Cessna Caravan as all landing and other challenges built into flight are
    tailored for this aircraft specifically

  2. Turn Damage mode off as you will most likely suffer at least hard
    landings if not full on crashes

  3. Bring plenty of Duc Tape for running repairs

  4. Crash Helmets are optional, Prayers are advisable

  5. Embrace “SLEW” as it will be your friend by the end of the flight

  6. *Practicing to make Caravan landing approaches at IAS of between 40-50knts max will see you *

  • nailing difficult landings with ease and precision.*
  1. Make it easy on yourself to navigate around the route and accurately pinpoint the exact landing
    areas by downloading and using the free “LittleNavMap” s/w you can get on the web - you will
    never open the standard sim VFR Map again once you have tried this fantastic app that integrates
    seamlessly with MSFS2020.

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