Objectives:

Start: Mifflin
TP1: Kettle Reservoir
TP2: Lock Haven Apt
Finish: Mifflin

Estimated time to complete:

1 hour 30 minutes

Aircraft:

DG-808S Competition Sailplane

 

Welcome to Day 4 in the Mifflin Soaring competition, a 227km triangle along ridges North and West of Mifflin.

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) using that height to cross the high ground and get established on the ridges taking you to Kettle Reservoir near Altoona. After that you should have a straightforward ridge run to Lock Haven airport to the Northwest, and then use some ridge to return Southwest to home getting enough height for the downwind final glide 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 "Mifflin - Day 4" award.