Condor - ridge tasks

On USNS, mifflin is one of the most troublesome sceneries for ridge.
The tasks are often easy to complete but the balance of pushing too
hard and being conservative is very difficult. Tonight we are racing
mifflin, join us tonight at 9 eastern on US Nightly and you may get
some insight on it.

JP

On Thursday, March 8, 2012 10:48:36 AM UTC-5, JP Stewart wrote:

On USNS, mifflin is one of the most troublesome sceneries for ridge.
The tasks are often easy to complete but the balance of pushing too
hard and being conservative is very difficult.

It was fun to fly the task last night. That was my first time on USNS (and I'm a relative Condor rookie as well). Getting used to the ASW28, full of water, I got off to a slow start, and got low on the ridge after TP1. Careful. I survived this, though, found a thermal, and made it upwind to TP2.. Getting back to Mifflin, however, was hard - an upwind transition to another ridge, into the blue. Two clouds en route failed to work. Should have backed off to a better ridge, but wanted to get home too soon. I ended up landing out some 20nm short of Mifflin. Oh well. 11/25, 414 pts, not too shabby given my inexperience, but a huge difference in XC speed to the experts. Just like in real life. Will try again some time soon. Great fun!