You start the challenge by clicking the “Start” button in the Event Page.
The challenge is only open for aircraft with an empty weight of under 6,000 lbs.
Your aircraft is then ready at BIIS with the Healing Vial and a Dilithium Unit loaded.
You can start the first flight of the challenge to BIHN.
Be sure to set the flight offset to fly during daytime as you have to fly at low altitude under 500ft AGL.
Note that most of the secondary missions can be flown at any time, some of them having interesting and unusual approches.
They don’t have any constraints (500ft AGL, direct route, max bank, max pitch, max gforce) like in the main mission.
As the weather is not a constraint for this challenge, you can use any weather setting to facilitate the trip.
During the flight, make sure to respect the challenge rules by staying in the direct route and below 500ft above the ground; as the Healing Vial is fragile, you need to fly smoothly in order to get it to destination without breaking it:
Stay below 500 feet above the ground level. (Just stay as close as you can to the ground. If needed, you can read the altitude above ground in the OnAir Flight Tracking Page)
Stay on a direct route between the 2 airports (The corridor is about 5NM wide)
Max Bank: 30°
Max Pitch: 30°
Max GForce: 1.5 or -0.75
Don’t worry, it’s very hard to keep 100% vial condition during the flight, but each drop will count at the end.
During the flight, several sounds will help you keep your Healing Vial as safe as possible:
SOUND 1:
The Vial has been damaged:
SOUND 2:
You exited the safe corridor (500ft and direct route). You have 60 seconds to get back into it before the Vial starts damaging.
SOUND 3:
You are back into the safe corridor.
SOUND 4:
The Healing Vial is destroyed and you need to restart the challenge.
When the first flight is finished, all the Dilithium Units in your aircraft are depleted and you need to get a new one at BIHN to continue the Challenge.
You have 3 options to get a Dilithium Unit at BIHN:
1) Get a Dilithium Unit from the public cooling hangar at BIHN if any is available
2) Ask a friend to bring you a Dilithium Unit at BIHN.
Your friend can start a secondary mission to take a Dilithium Unit at any Dilithium Storage Airport along the route (BIAR, EGPA, ENBR, ESNZ, ENLK).
Bring it to BIHN and give to you.
For the secondary missions, you don’t have any constraints (500ft AGL, direct route, max bank, max pitch, max gforce) like in the main mission.
3) You can take a secondary mission yourself at any Dilithium Storage Airport along the route (BIAR, EGPA, ENBR, ESNZ, ENLK) and bring the Dilithium at BIHN by yourself.
If you use the aircraft containing the Healing Vial, you need to manually unload it first at BIHN where it will be stored until you return.
When you have a new Dilithium Unit at BIHN, you can load it along with the Healing Vial and takeoff for the next flight to EGPB.
You can process the same way for each step of the Challenge.
Some flights are over the ocean and can be made easily with time compression and auto pilot without damaging the Healing Vial.
Other flights need to cross mountains under 500ft above ground and will challenge your flying skills.
