On Jan 7, 1:04*pm, wrote:
To visualize this draw two circles on a piece of paper - one has a
radius of 5 units (this is the start cylinder). Draw the second with a
radius of 30 units, just above the first and touching at the edge.
Your diagram now looks like a simple drawing of a soccer ball sitting
on top of a baseball. This is the worst case scenario - the biggest
possible first turn area (30 mi) sitting as close as possible to the
start cylinder (somebody check me that there isn't some minimum first
leg distance in the rules that is greater than 35 miles).


Close, but you have confused the issue by using an invalid task
example. The minimum separation between the closest points of the
start cylinder and the first turn area is 5 statute miles. See rule
10.3.1.1.

Andy