CCB_015
Remote Passenger Pickup
– Off Field Landings
Event begins immediately following the Sunday Flight. This flight will be run a second time on August 2nd at 1400 ET (US) 1900 GMT
First of all, there are a number of required files that you need to have installed for this adventure. Complete information may be found in the “Sticky” section of the Com-Central Bush Flights forum. Please download, install, and follow all instructions there if you haven’t already done so.
The CCB_015.zip file contains the following:
The Adventure
Out in remote
valleys reside four friends, all of whom are gold prospectors. They started over 30 years ago at a single
location and over the years they’ve divided their efforts and moved to
different places in search of their fortunes.
Eventually, they all found gold and have been living in their various
valleys, laboriously extracting gold by hand.
They all jealously guard their strikes’ actual locations, and have made their
homes several miles away from their mines.
Every three months or so, they contract a bush pilot to pick them up with
the gold they’ve extracted and transport them all to Juneau, where they cash in
the fruits of their labor and spend some time together in ‘the big city’. We’re the bush pilots they’ve chosen this
time, and they’re trusting us to keep secret the
locations of their homes. We’ve chosen
to use the Volpar both for its large passenger compartment
and for it’s large payload capacity (gold is heavy!!). There is just one cloud raining on our parade
– these guys pay very little attention to personal hygiene. They live alone, in the wild, and they’ve
just learned not to care about it much.
We’ll be paid very well for our services, but we’ll need to spend a
little cleaning up our aircraft’s interior (fumigation and such) once we’ve
dropped them off at
Setup
Aircraft: Brian Gladden Beech 18 Volpar - Wheeled
Fuel Load: 510 pounds - 85 gallons
Payload: No more than 1220 pounds
Cruise Altitude: As required
Cruise Speed: 159 kias
Power Settings: 28” hg @ 1900 rpm
Simulator Time: 1000 Local / 1800 UTC, set by saved flight CCB_015
Weather: Set by saved flight CCB_015
Location: CYSQ, at or near the following location:
The Flight
Here’s an overview of our approximate flight path for today:
CYSQ Atlin to
Spread the plastic covers over the seats in your aircraft
and depart from runway 18, climbing to 3500’msl. Follow Atlin Lake
south to where the Pike and O’Donnel Rivers empty out
into the lake and turn southeast to head for the Sloko
River valley. Once over the river at about
Fix06, descend to 2500’ and follow the river south to
CYSQ Atlin Elevation 2349’ msl Runway 18 3950’ x 75’ Asphalt
Fix16 Paradise Peak Mining Camp Elevation 1740’ msl Field
Wait a minute while our
passenger puts the campfire out and get him and his sack of gold on board. Execute a short field takeoff back down the
Fix16 Paradise Peak Mining Camp Elevation 1740’ msl Field
Fix38 Stuhini Creek Mining Camp Elevation 1144’ msl Field
Stuhini Creek Mining Camp to Teane
Creek Mining
Get the second prospector and his gold aboard and take off
back down the creek toward
Fix38 Stuhini Creek Mining Camp Elevation 1144’ msl Field
Fix60 Teane Creek Mining Camp Elevation 1750’ msl Field
Teane Creek Mining Camp to
Get our third odiferous passenger and his bounty aboard and
depart back down Teane Creek, climbing to 2000’msl. Turn south to follow Speel
Arm to Port Snettisham and follow that to Point
Styleman.
Cross Stephans Passage and the
Fix60 Teane Creek Mining Camp Elevation 1750’ msl Field
Fix72 Eagle Peak Mining Camp Elevation 1034’ msl Field
Pick up the last passenger (dang it’s getting rank in this
airplane…) and depart back down King Salmon River. Climb to 2000’ quickly to clear terrain when
we turn west to follow Admiralty Creek back to Stephens Passage. Fly around the west end of
Fix72 Eagle Peak
Mining Camp Elevation
1034’ msl Field
PAJN
That’s it! I hope you enjoyed the flight, and I hope to see you again in future Com Central Bush Flight adventures!
-Bob “Maple One” Williams-