Citation Flight Notes
July 11, 2002 - First Flight

Crew:  	Le Hardy, Martin, Poellot, Twohy, Rogers

142548	Takeoff

E	EYW  012/076
F	EYW  026/082

143328	15,800' cloud base
143530	Ice cloud.
143708	Top 21,000'. Cb ahead.
143900 (?)  Switched to pilot nose source.
144900	In top of altocumulus. Right at top, FL240 (top is higher than on climb out)
145140	Descending to FL200, heading west for ATC.
145600	Into cloud, FL200
150000	In layer of plates
150050	Turning to go back to E.
150100	Seeing jumps in TDL values.
150400	Heading back east to E., still in plates, near top, all ice
150930	Diffuse cloud top. Winds < 5 knots
151150	Turning, will descend to FL190. We've been out of cloud for a couple of minutes
151448	Back in cloud, FL190, heading 270
151800	NPOL radar is down
151855	Turn
152130	Cleared direct to west site at FL190 and hold.
152455	Clear, between scattered to broken layer above, broken to overcast below.
152800	ATC cleared us to FL230, entering hold over west site.
152945	Inhto cloud at 20,900
153450	In hold

G	EYW  018/088
H	EYW  019/068

153600	Climbing, hope to set up new north/south track G-H.
154200	Photo of anvils to south. Climbing through 30,500'
155230	Climbing from FL310 to FL350 to try to get to cirrus.
155830	FL346, will not reach cirrus. Requesting descent to altostratus deck.
160800	Base/top of altostratus is 20/23 kft, from ground site.
161100	Heading to ground site.
161300	At 21,000'. Cloud is very thin. Mostly out of cloud. ATC clearance very difficult to get - they want us out of here.
161500	10 miles south of ground site, not in cloud
161700	Circle of WB-57 contrail on forward video.
161830	Photo looking 020, 8miles south of west ground site.
162500	Nothing of interes now. Will RTB to refuel. 

165155	Land
2.5 hours

Summary:
1. Did several legs west of west ground site at FL200 and FL190.
2. Climbed over west site to attempt to get to cirrus - did not reach.
3. Descended to FL210 for Terra overpass. Ended up between very thin layers (optical and geometric). Did hit a patch of cloud 5 minutes after the overpass.