Objectives:

Start: Mifflin Start
TP1: Cumberland Airport
TP2: Lock Haven Airport
TP3: Kettle Reservoir
Finish: Mifflin Finish

Estimated time to complete:

4 hours

Aircraft:

DG-808S Competition Sailplane

 

Welcome to Day 5 in the Mifflin Soaring competition, an extended 3-turnpoint task of over 500km, so you will get your Diamond Distance if this is your first time.

Note there is a special airspace restriction across the whole area to 7500 feet. If you exceed this you will FAIL the mission.

Make a good start above the airfield (maximum start height 6000 feet MSL) and navigate via each waypoint to return to the airfield. By now you are on familiar territory and the ridges are still working, so use your start height to get over the high ground to the Northwest and get established on the ridges to take you to Cumberland.

The mission begins in flight, approaching the start line. Your ground crew will monitor your progress via radio telemetry.

The wind is 17 knots from the North-West, so keep to the ridges on the South sides of the valleys and avoid the sink and curlover in the lee of upwind hills. Do not head off into unlandable high areas unless you are certain of an available escape route and confident of lift.

Before flying this mission, fly the earlier FSX soaring missions, including the "Austrian Alpine Soaring Course"

Successful completion of this mission will earn you the coveted "Mifflin Day 5" award.