Objectives:

Start: Mifflin
TP1: Spruce Creek Tunnel
TP2: Blair County Apt
TP3: Penns Cave Apt
Finish: Mifflin

Estimated time to complete:

1 hour 15 minutes

Aircraft:

DG-808S Competition Sailplane

 

Welcome to Day 2 in the Mifflin Soaring competition, another 3-turnpoint task but this time along ridges north of the airport.

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 West to Spruce Creek Tunnel into wind, so take advantage of a good start height to clear the high ground. After that take the ridge South to Blair Country Airport, follow the ridges where possible back North-East to Penns Cave Airport, and then use your height carefully to negotiate the high ground back to Mifflin.

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 "Soaring Competition Racing Pilot" award.