Friday, October 30, 2026

Mission #30: the debrief

Pilots
6,587
Average
2,290 m
6,000 m+
0%

Heaviest ballastName a country the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) passes through. 79% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country in Asia larger than 100,000 km².

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country in Asia larger than 100,000 km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Mongolia

Jet Stream (850 m): Nepal, North Korea, Syria, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Laos

Updraft (600 m): Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Malaysia

Drifter (300 m): Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, Türkiye, Thailand, South Korea, Iraq

Ballast (100 m): India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Japan

2. Name a country in the Schengen Area.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Iceland

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania

Updraft (600 m): Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, Czechia

Drifter (300 m): Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Greece

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Malta, Liechtenstein

Ballast (100 m): Germany, France, Italy, Spain

3. Name a country whose capital starts with P.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Cape Verde (Capital: Praia), Vanuatu (Capital: Port Vila), Micronesia (Capital: Palikir)

Jet Stream (850 m): Mauritius (Capital: Port Louis), Suriname (Capital: Paramaribo), Montenegro (Capital: Podgorica)

Updraft (600 m): Czechia (Capital: Prague), Papua New Guinea (Capital: Port Moresby), Panama (Capital: Panama City), Kosovo (Capital: Pristina), Trinidad and Tobago (Capital: Port of Spain)

Drifter (300 m): North Korea (Capital: Pyongyang), Cambodia (Capital: Phnom Penh), Benin (Capital: Porto-Novo), Haiti (Capital: Port-au-Prince)

Ballast (100 m): France (Capital: Paris), South Africa (Capital: Pretoria), Malaysia (Capital: Putrajaya)

4. Name an African Commonwealth member whose flag has black on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Lesotho, Eswatini

Jet Stream (850 m): Zambia, Botswana

Updraft (600 m): Ghana, Mozambique, Malawi

Drifter (300 m): Tanzania, Uganda

Ballast (100 m): South Africa, Kenya

5. Name a country in Western Asia with a coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Qatar, Bahrain

Jet Stream (850 m): Oman, Kuwait, Georgia

Updraft (600 m): Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Palestine

Drifter (300 m): Israel, Yemen, Syria

Ballast (100 m): Türkiye, Iraq, Saudi Arabia

6. Name a country the Prime Meridian (0° longitude) passes through.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Burkina Faso, Togo

Jet Stream (850 m): Mali

Updraft (600 m): Algeria, Ghana

Drifter (300 m): Spain

Ballast (100 m): United Kingdom, France

7. Name a country with a Caribbean Sea coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Belize, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Updraft (600 m): Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago

Drifter (300 m): Jamaica, Venezuela, Guatemala, Haiti, Dominican Republic

Ballast (100 m): Mexico, Colombia, Cuba

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