Objectives:

Start: Mifflin
TP1: Selinsgrove Airport
TP2: Orbisonia
Finish: Mifflin

Estimated time to complete:

1 hour 45 minutes

Aircraft:

DG-808S Competition Sailplane

 

Welcome to Day 3 in the Mifflin Soaring competition, a 232km triangle taking you out of the local valley to the South.

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. The task takes you East with a downwind jump to Selinsgrove Airport, then South-West from there mostly along ridge to Orbisonia. After that you have to find some height for an upwind jump onto the ridge that runs South of Mifflin and back home.

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 3" award.