PRECISION FLYING CHALLENGE

[kullery]

The Airport is P20 - AVI SUQUILLA

Resist the temptation to add a "K" to every airport identifier

Scenery download is at http://gateway.x-plane.com/scenery/page/P20

[webstalle]

Hi Ken,

Once I skipped the leading 'K', it worked!

Thanks for the reply.

[ridikamus]

There is a "gotcha" in X-Plane 10.35 though. The new GPS doesn't understand airport codes very well, so you will indeed have to punch in KP20 to get Avi Suquilla.

[RyanK]

I decided to kill real weather since I don't know how exactly X-Plane handles transitions between altimeter settings, and I didn't want to be consistently off because of that. I'm assuming PE aware reports true altitude. I feel a little guilty now that my average altitude error was about 5 feet. I'm not sure how the lateral scoring works during the transitions, so I tried to keep my turns within .5 nm of each VOR so my XTK relative to either course wouldn't vary by more than that. My errors were still greatest right at the transitions though. Anyway, that was probably the most intense hour of straight and level I've flown. My eyes hurt.

http://myflightroute.com/precision.php? ... ?id=100629

[kullery]

Outstanding job Ryan. That one will be hard to beat!!

[webstalle]

I now tried to fly the Precison Challenge 3 times with raising scores
I always use real weather, with Altimeter set to P20 field Elevation and both ForeFlight and Garmin 795 with current charts for navigation.

One question concerning altituide scoring:
Does the 100 feet tolerance mean, an altitude deviation plus/minus 100 feet from the target altitude is ok, e.g. that altitudes (westbound) between 6400 and 6600 are still ok,
or do I have to take it more strictly, with tolerances plus/minus 50 feet of target altitude (giving a range of 100 feet in total)?

Friedhelm, Germany

[kullery]

altitude within +/-100 feet, so 6400-6600 (westbound) will avoid any altitude penalty.