Welcome to the 21st flight event in the Gunpilot’s Challenging Flights adventure series. This challenging flights event has all of us flying from the Caribbean Sea across the mainland of Panama to the Pacific Ocean, and then back to the Caribbean sea via the Panama Canal, 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. This flight will be very intensive as we will be packing in 31, yes 31, landings along the route which will take us between 2.5 to 3 hours to journey along from departure to final destination. As usual, there will be a (now expected) glide challenge leg to test your ability to fly the Caravan to a destination without the aid of power.
When: Friday 16 April @ 2300 UTC
Where: Panama Canal
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/rpsHtJXy74 1 (click on “#event-news”)
Voice Chat accessed by clicking on Comms Radio
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
Cessna Caravan as all landing and other challenges built into flight are
tailored for this aircraft specifically
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.
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.
