Your engine died over the mountains. Ice coats your wing tips and heavy cargo drags your tail. Your knuckles whiten on the control stick as you take a stomach-churning dive, prepping a deadstick landing. It’s life or death, but this is the stuff bush pilots are made of. You don’t panic — you ride the bastard down.
Set in a magnificent, treacherous world, Deadstick delivers the authentic bush pilot experience.
ROLEPLAY THE JOB OF A LIFETIME
- MISSIONS. Carve out your career as a bush pilot, choosing a range of cargo deliveries and recon missions.
- COMPANY MANAGEMENT. Manage your fledgling Flight & Delivery Service by weighing the risk and reward of each job, investing your earnings, and expanding over time.
- INVEST. Spend your earnings on upgrades, hangars, modifications and repairs. Invest in rural airports to improve their runways and add fuel pumps, salvage sites, cell towers and other facilities.
- REPUTATION. Earn a local reputation at each airport based on your safety, reliability, care and skill, unlocking more jobs. Just don’t crash and burn at a major airport or your bad rep could go global.
- PILOT’S CORNER. Personalize your Pilot's Corner with memorabilia, trophies, and photos you've captured on your adventures.
AUTHENTIC BUSH FLIGHT SIMULATION
- FLIGHT MODEL. Accurate to the last detail, from battery drain and torque to prop wash and p-factor.
- COCKPIT. Master a study-level cockpit with fully realized avionics, electrical loads and circuit breakers.
- PILOT MAP. Optimize your route based on distance, fuel, and weather forecasts.
- NAVIGATION TOOLS. Navigate manually with your map, compass, stopwatch and heading.
- FUEL MANAGEMENT. Balance necessary fuel volume with acceptable weight. An over-full tank on one wing could create a dangerous imbalance.
- MODIFICATIONS. Unlock hangars to upgrade your aircraft into the ultimate STOL workhorse, changing propellers for a faster cruise speed or enlarging tires for rough terrain.
- TECH LOG. Perform regular preflight checks and maintain your aircraft, or throw caution to the wind and save money.
- REALISTIC WEATHER. Maneuver through forceful windstorms, evade disaster in thick cloud cover, and contend with ice accumulation as you ascend into freezing temperatures.
- DIFFICULT TERRAIN. Contend with remote landing strips of grass, snow or gravel.
- DAMAGE MODEL. Deal with malfunction and emergencies, from worn-out tires to ripping off a wing. Lose engine power and deadstick your aircraft to safety.
“If an airplane is still in one piece, don’t cheat on it. Ride the bastard down.”
- Ernie Gann
