Welcome to the 109th flight event across the GUNNER DOWNUNDER series. This flight will be conducted in The Swiss Alps , 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.
Hold on to your seats everyone, we are about to undertake a flight thru the Swiss Alps in extreme weather conditions that will have us battling our way around the planned route in VFR thru both Thunder and Snow storms. And just to make it an even more crazily difficult mission, we will have strong winds, and at least an hours flying in fading light that will see us flying in NVFR conditions, still while being in IMC.
If you enjoyed the first “Challenging Weather” format flight in PNG last week then you are going to absolutely love this second flight in the new formatted series.
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. 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 13th January 2023 @ 2300UTC
Where: Swiss Alps
Flight Duration: Approx 2.5hrs (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.
VFR_NFR in IMC ALPS.pln (7.3 KB)
Load this plan format into your SIM
VFR_NFR in IMC ALPS.lnmpln (5.9 KB)
Load this plan format into your LNM
Go to Gunpilot’s server to grab the zipped Weather file and extract it into your Community Folder.
(Delete last weeks Weather file (PNG) if have not already done so)