Come and join us in The Wilga Bush Racing Series!*
*Wilga encouraged, but not required 
Casual group flights with a focus on fun and a bit of friendly “semi-racing” competition in some stunning locations.
If you do own the Wilga, we are using the 35X or 80X, but feel free to join in any Bush type aircraft if you don’t have the Willy!
NEXT EVENT:
Hollywood, L.A., USA, Retro 1930’s Hollywood Hills Race.
Sunday 2nd April at 13:00Z / UTC (GMT = 14:00)
Ideally please install this mod to make it more fun: Gable Field - Vintage Air Race and Airfield set in 1930's Los Angeles for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS
(Also please check the Dependencies, as there are a few other packages required to make everything visible).
SUMMARY:
• AIRCRAFT: Wilga 35X or 80X (or similar performance light GA / bush plane)
• MEET: Hollywood Burbank Bob Hope, USA - [KBUR] (RWY15 is correct take-off direction). There is an airfield added as part of the Mod suggested to use (KRKT), but for our Xbox friends we will start together at Burbank.
• WHEN: Sunday 2nd April 2023 at 13:00Z / UTC (GMT = 14:00)
• SERVER: West Europe
• REGISTER: Post your name here or just turn up a little before the time and we’ll see you there. Feel free to Join my Discord (link below)
• FUEL: 100% filled
• LIVERY: Any DEFAULT Wilga livery (important so we see each others Willys 
)
• ENGINE REALISM: On
• FLIGHT PLAN: Meet at the airfield. Ideally join my Discord Voice Radio Channel so we can synchronise starting and talk during the event.
• RACE: Unlimited laps but let’s just have fun! Nothing strict, just some stunts’racin’n’fun
MORE INFO:
This is a really nice and short course with some climbs and dips but not to the point of risky shock cooling this time
The mod flattens part of the current-day city to how it was in the 1930’s (I assume!) so to make it same for everyone we will start at the Bob Hope Airport just 1 minute north of the actual race start point. I have tested the course without the mod and it’s just low buildings there so won’t affect pilots without the mod too much (other than you won’t see the gates, but the course is easy to remember with points of interest to easily follow).
Basic route guide
See this video: MSFS | Wilga 80X (by Got Friends) at Hollywood | Race Testing (awesome Gable Field retro freeware) - YouTube
- Anti-Clockwise course (with some right turns / slalom).
- We will extend the course so that people without the mod (on Xbox or whatever) still have similar visual reference and the same course length. Meaning, the turning point will be a left turn around the CONTROL TOWER at KBUR (not in the video but y9ou can see the tower a bit further ahead before I turn left)
- Follow me for the first lap if unsure, to get your bearings
- After the first straight, slight left and head over the ruins
- Through the V of the first hills and immediate right, hugging the other side of that ridge to your right wing
- 90 degree left, over the lake / dam
- 90 degree left over another right, then slalom to gate on left and back to the right (short distance)
- Over the observatory the steep down
- Hug the hill on the left, flying parallel over the highway for a moment
- Back up through the bumpy valley on your left - aim for the gap in the trees almost directly north.
- Down the other side with the ruins on your left, keeping the warehouse building directly in front
- Aim back to the Bob Hope control tower, turn left around that and round we go again!
Join my Discord to find out more and get involved.
