[SW] Stormwind Aviation Club

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Stormwind Aviation Club

To aviators:
Does the Blue call and is walking on the dusty, dirty earth just too mainstream? Whether you are a retired pilot or an aviation enthusiast, now you no longer have to fly alone!

While you are at it, why not do some good up there and get paid for it as well?

Stormwind Aviation Club offers you a company of like-minded individuals to watch your tail or cover your windscreen in soot (depending on who has the better machine), the club will also help you find freelance assignments to take solo or in group so that you can spend more time flying and less time negotiating business.

Contact Rihani Deephaven in High Dock Road 65a, Stormwind City to sign up for the club!

What you give:
-Membership fee of 5 silver a month
-Oath not to be a jerk (no, really) and not to screw over the clients (which incidentally also makes one a jerk)
-Part of payment for jobs goes to the club, rest is yours though!

What I give:
-Company of like-minded individuals
-Steady supply of jobs you may take
-Access and group-discount for some talented technicians, for when you are too drunk to repair your bird yourself
-Discount for hardware
-Discount on hangar space in the Docks.
-Some toys to play with on jobs, toys you would not normally be able to afford!
-Fabulous mortgage if you do not have own gyrocopter but wish to acquire one! Write to inquire after the details of the deal.


Club activities every Thursday starting on Thursday the 28th in-front of the dockside hangar.

To those seeking aviator services:

Here is the list of services the club provides right now:

Spotting
Do you have a fleet of fishing boats and don't want to waste time looking for fish? Are you curious whether there are pirates or horde waiting out at sea? How close to Stormwind is your competitor's caravan? Are there bandits in that treacherous mountain pass? Just ask, and we will do your air-reconnaissance for you.

Aerial Quickshot
Ever wondered what the world looks from above or want to see how the competitor-caravan is doing? We can take a low-quality quickshot during daytime! Quickshots tend to be darker and have low quality due to the short exposure time of the photosensitive plate, but the copter doesn't have to stop and steady to make it!

Aerial Slowshot
When taking a slowshot the pilot will stop the machine and hover in the air to focus the Snapshotter and allow for longer exposure. Slowshots can be taken during night and have far higher quality.

Rapid Delivery and Extraction
We can deliver your mail and supplies with extraordinary speed. Do you want to send fresh flowers from Stormwind fields to your darling in booty bay? No problem! Supplies and mail can be delivered in areas where landing is possible and paradropped where landing is impossible (accuracy to within half a mile of target guaranteed) We can also carry up to one additional passenger.

Air Support
Lacking the big guns for your brave adventuring expedition and not minding to empty your pockets on hiring us and paying hazard-pay? As long as the cause is legal, we will bring repeater guns, rockets and bombs into the fray!

Here you can see our operational range from Stormwind, we can move base to another location if the pay is right:

All services are available within the Green circle, covering all of Elwynn and parts of Westfall, Duskwood, Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge, Dun Morogh and some Redridge Mountains.

Within the Red circle we offer limited services as we either have to carry additional phlogiston (and less cargo) or refuel at destination (such as Booty Bay or Ironforge).

Contact Rihani Deephaven at High Dock Road 65a, Stormwind City if you have questions or wish to hire an aviator.

Gnomeregan Aviation Journal, extract, translation

Outfitting your bird for war

First thing you need is protection. Our brightest scientists were searching for the definitive answer to Aerial Rectal Perforation ('arrow in the butt' in pilot-speak) and have unanimously agreed on placing a thick cast iron frying pan under the pilot's seat.

Heavy armour for the torso, safety helmet and goggles increase survivability by 67% in cases of the pilot coming under fire while in the seat. Parachute, flare gun and a fire extinguisher are highly recommended. Quick study suggests that alcohol on board increases fatality by 1.3%.

Modern gyrocopters are as varied as the pilots who fly them, good thing they are still built around the old Mark II chassis and have enough similarities to make armament development a viable and profitable industry!

Mark II chassis was designed with light repeater gun in mind, to be placed at the nose of the machine underneath the frontal rotor. Science has made gigantic strides since then, and this slot for a single main armament is now fully customizable!

1) Light Repeater Cannon was designed to dispense a ray of metally death at 180 rounds per minute. Unfortunately nobody got it to do that without overheating and blowing up. L.R.Cs generally fire short bursts of roughly 9-15 rounds before needing a cooldown of several seconds. You can find a great variety of L.R.C schematics, some better than others. Make sure your schematic includes engine-synchronizer or you will end up shooting your own rotor blades to bits.

2) Heavy Repeater Cannon was designed when our scientists have concluded their metastudy of over two hundred AARs involving dragons. L.R.C rounds simply couldn't penetrate the thick scales! Answer: bigger gun. Heavy Repeater Cannon is a mechanical automatic weapon designed to dispense explosive shells at a steady rate of 6 rounds per minute. Warning: automated reloading mechanism can sometimes jam.

3) Flamethrower. When one of our colleagues suggested placing a short-range Dragon Gun in the main armament slot, we painted him green and then laughed at him. Little did we know that Science was on his side! Two weeks later his flamethrower-equipped machines burned down a field in Tirisfal growing magically enhanced crop of herbs to be used in plague research!

MII has two additional slots underneath the wings connecting the fuselage to the secondary jet-rotors. Most pilots prefer to equip them with turbo-phlogiston to increase the speed of their machine. Great customizability of MII allows you for greater freedom:

1) Two phlogiston tanks can be equipped to increase the range or speed of your machine. Most pilots go for the infamous turbo-phlogiston to be used as an afterburner, cooler heads choose simple phlogiston to increase the range of their machine.

2) Bombs. We are not goblins, but even we love a good explosion!

3) Rockets. Our engineers have designed a great variety of those, ranging from two high explosives to battery of 2x6 smaller rockets.

4) Cargo. When you can choose between bombs, rockets or turbo-phlogiston, why would you want to pack additional laundry instead? Fine, whatever. You can do that if you want to.

At the back of MKII, on either side of the engine, are twin cargo compartments. These can also be refitted to carry additional passenger or stuffed with bombs. Caution, positioning bombs this close to the engine is not a very good idea.

Oath not to be a jerk (no, really) and not to screw over the clients (which incidentally also makes one a jerk)

Vaell wrote:Just a note about exposure; you can get a clear image at night if it is a clear night! Starlight and other sources etc.
I wish I could afford a Gyrocopter for this!