Mar 28 2012
Gryphon Jump
AAC events often follow a familiar pattern; jump in a plane and show off your piloting skills or hunt down the enemy in an all-you-can-eat dog fight. Alternatively you could jump out of the USS Paris, 1500 meters to the bullseye target which has been placed below in the Sovereign sim.
AAC Sigma lead Kaori Juliesse thought, “Hey, what would happen if we combined the two?” and thus was born the Bail Out of a Gryphon Event.
The first time this was played out a Gryphon pilot took a passenger to 500 meters altitude. The passenger would be the first to jump out followed by the pilot who would delink their ship by using the single command in chat “die”.
Now, unknown to some, the Gryphon has a system built-in called AWADS (Automatic Weapon Area Deactivation System) This system automatically disables weapons in specific area’s in the GFC sims. One of the other global commands if you know how to instigate it is to destroy by delinking any Gryphon rezzed in the sim all at once. Sigma Lead Kaori flips the switch on that to see how prepared we were and how quickly we could react to suddenly falling to the ground as our ship disintegrated beneath us.
Those who participated had a good time parachuting down to the target, there was the odd person landing in the water with an almighty splash, but most hit the target thankfully.
Gryphon jumping is a fun event and I’m sure we’ll see it and variations of it in AAC events in the future.
Be sure to check out the video of one of our pilots, delinking, parachuting out and landing bang on the bullseye. Bravo!
Mar 28 2012
AAC P-40 Shoot Out
To help test a pilot’s skills, one of the AAC events is to have a pilot climb into one of the available Curtiss P-40 Physical Flight (PF) aircraft. Their first act is to navigate the runway, follow the proper signs, request and receive permission to launch from the Air Control Tower.
Once in the air we all had to circle around in formation to test our ability to keep up with each other. This isn’t as easy as it may seem for different planes will be flying at slightly different speeds which you had to adjust periodically.
Once everyone was in the air, there was a count down, 5…4…3…2…1 and our dog fight began! The rules are simple; last plane flying wins. Now, one thing about flying physical flight planes, is not only are they harder to control, but in mouselook mode it’s just forward, throttle, reverse and fire with the mouse, PF offers more of a challenge as you’re having to control movement and throttle with the keyboard while trying to fire with the mouse at the same time! You practically have to have almost Octopus like dexterity. Judging from the amount of people crashing into walls, they hadn’t mastered that yet.
Planes fell to the ground one by one, until only two were left. It was Red Squadron Lead Gokyu Ugajin vs Kaori Juliesse Lead of Green Squadron. The two twisted and turned, bobbed and dodged, overheating their cannons with rounds and rounds of bullets but still couldn’t shoot each other down. For over ten minutes the pilots tried to ground each other.
In the end though, Kaori hit Gokyu’s ship with a round of tracer fire his plane could not withstand and the smoking hull made its way to the ground.
Kaori Juliesse was the victor of the sky this time, but she better watch her tail flaps as pilots don’t forget when the next challenge comes round.
By GFC Staff Writer • Events • • Tags: AAC