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SOARING mission category.
This download contains two new files for your 'Categories' folder in the FSX root, creating a new category 'Soaring'.
Click the image on the right to download the file. 'Browse' the zip and drag the two files into your FSX 'Categories' folder.
Apple Valley soaring mission.
Author: Beeg
Time target: 1 hour 5 minutes
A 150km (?) triangle from Pangborn Memorial Airport, Washington, USA in the DG808S with some ridge and strong thermals.
Click the image on the right to download the file. Simply place the AppleValley folder from the zip into your Missions/Soaring folder (create this if it's your first soaring mission).
This zip includes the source XML if you're a developer and need an example.
The Austrian Soaring Competition
These missions are successive competition days following on from the original "Austrian Alpine Soaring Course" mission provided with FSX Deluxe. The missions generally have an area height restriction of 9000 feet, and the thermal and ridge lift is far more detailed than the FSX original.
The missions will be best enjoyed if played in the chronological order. Any pilot should be able to complete all the missions, but getting the best time requires more skill as the days progress.
The tasks of each of the days overlaid onto the same map can be found below (click to enlarge)
Austrian Soaring - day 2 mission.
Author: B21
Time target: 1 hour 13 minutes
A 206 km flat triangle from Zell am See airfield in Austria, the same setting as the stock FSX soaring mission. The course takes you along the valley 70 km to the West of LOWZ before returning past the airfield another 35 km to the East, and then home.
Much of the task is a ridge run, with the wind 16 knots from the North-east giving good ridge lift on the south side of the valley.
Click the image on the right to download the file. Simply place the AustrianSoaring2 folder from the zip into your Missions/Soaring folder (create this if it's your first soaring mission).
Austrian Soaring - day 3 mission.
Author: B21
Time target: 1 hour 15 minutes
Day 3 in the Austrian Soaring competition, with the wind still blowing from the North-East. The task set for the day is a 172 km quadrilateral from Zell am See airfield in Austria, involving both ridge and thermal soaring. 50 competitor gliders are simulated on the course.
The first challenge is to reach Turnpoint 1, in a valley to the South-East of the airfield. With a North-Easterly wind the ridges on the South and West sides of the valleys are giving lift, but traversing high ground can be dangerous unless you make sure of a safe exit to an area of known lift.
After TP1 you follow the valley back North, with an into-wind leg to reach the second turnpoint. Immediately after TP2 it is decision time, to plan your route over or around the high ground on your path to the third and final turnpoint.
Zip includes README file for install. Click the image on the right to download the file. Simply place the AustrianSoaring3 folder from the zip into your Missions/Soaring folder (create this if it's your first soaring mission).
NEW !!! Austrian Soaring - Day 4 mission.
Author: B21
Time target: 1 hour 15 minutes
Day 4 in the Austrian Soaring competition, with the wind still blowing from the North-East but reduced from yesterday, now 8 knots. The task set for the day is a 160 km quadrilateral from Zell am See airfield in Austria, involving both ridge and thermal soaring.
The first challenge is to reach Turnpoint 1, 40km along the valley to the West of the airfield. With the North-Easterly wind the ridges on the South side of the valleys are giving lift and thermals kicked off the high ground are plentiful.
After TP1 you turn North, with an into-wind leg to reach the second turnpoint. The first part of this leg requires you pass over the ridge on the North side of the valley, and this will require careful flying due to the expected curl-over from the ridge. After TP2 you must plan your route over or around the high ground on your path to the third and final turnpoint. Then you should try and optimise the final glide for home, passing over the large lake to the North of LOWZ airport.
Zip includes README file for install. Click the image on the right to download the file. Simply place the AustrianSoaring4 folder from the zip into your Missions/Soaring folder (create this if it's your first soaring mission).
Dornbirn Soaring - Day 1 mission.
Author: FSXSnoopy.
Time target: 1 hour 10 minutes
In this mission, you´ll fly a Discus 2b standard class glider around a course in the European Alps. You start the mission at Dornbirn Airfield by a tow. Fly the four Turnpoints and make a safely landing at Dornbirn Airfield.
Today, it´s a beautifull Soaring Day - good Thermals, Ridge Lifts and also some waves are around the course.
The mission zip file includes the Shempp-Hirth Discus 2b from Wolfgang Piper, also available here on www.fsglider.de.
The Mifflin Soaring Competition
If you enjoyed the FSX Deluxe "Austrian Soaring" mission, and the follow-on missions available for download here, then this package moves things to the next simulation generation.
The missions will be best enjoyed if played in the chronological order. Day 1 is a good start to the competition which most pilots should be able to complete fairly easily, but the later missions require concentration and stamina. Day 5 in particular is a 531km 4-hour marathon for which completion is an achievement in itself.
The tasks of each of the days overlaid onto the same map can be found below
A detailed briefing document is available. You will need to study this carefully, and print out the maps to successfully fly the missions.
A Mifflin Soaring Competition (5 missions).
Author: B21.
Time target: Total 10 hours
In these missions you'll fly the DG808S competition glider around set tasks in excellent ridge-soaring weather.
A detailed briefing document is available. You will need to study this carefully, and print out the maps to successfully fly the missions.
Full version here (15Mb):
mifflin_v9.zipOr just use the following to update any prior download to the latest version (40Kb)
mifflin_v9_patch.zipMifflin Soaring 2008 Nationals Day 1.
Author: B21.
Time target: 3 hours
Fly the SOAR DG808S (included with this mission) around the actual task set on Day 1 of the 2008 USA Nationals at Mifflin.
Click here for the task map.
This mission also includes a new version of 'Day 1' from the 5-day Mifflin competition above, updated to use the SOAR DG808S.