Welcome to the 138th flight event across the GUNNER DOWNUNDER series. This week we will be flying from Idaho west across the border into Oregon, 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.
We depart on the western side of Utah and head west to cross the border into the state of Oregon. Beautiful scenery is to be had in this region of Oregon, with tall Ponderosa Pines whizzing by below us. However, sometimes the landscape will be shrouded in scattered fog and while this is quite navigatable, it may make some landings a bit more tricky than they otherwise would be.
This flight will be a BACK2BLACK event. In this BACK2BLACK flight event, we will be flying in the Cessna Grand Caravan. This should make this challenging flight a bit easier to handle for most as we are all well versed in the operation of the Caravan.
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.
Along the way there will opportunities where you can redeeem 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 cloudy, but nothing too serious. However, low lying fog will sit in the valleys and will no doubt bring a few pilots undone if they are not watchful of what they are doing.
*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.
Remember, you will be dropping onto the departure runway in a Cessna Grand Caravan!
When: Fri 7th July @ 2300UTC
Where: Idaho/Oregon, USA
Flight Duration: Approx 2.5 to 3hrs (depending on numbers attending)
Aircraft: Cessna Grand Caravan
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 version of the plan into your sim:
Idaho to Oregon B2B.pln (6.8 KB)
Load this version of the plan into LNM:
Idaho to Oregon B2B.lnmpln (5.5 KB)