DC-8 10/17/17
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Aircraft:
Flight Number:
1229
Payload Configuration:
ATom-3 configuration - AMP, AO2, ARMAS, ATHOS, CAFE, CAFS, CAPS, CIT-CIMS, DLH, DLH-X, GT-CIMS, HR-AMS, ISAF, Medusa, MMS, NOAA-CIMS, NOyO3, PALMS, PANTHER, PFP, Picarro, QCLS, SAGA, SP2, TOGA, UCATS, WAS
Nav Data Collected:
Yes
Archive Data:
20171017 (81 archive (plain-text) files; 4 binary files)
Total Flight Time:
9.5 hours
Comments:
ATom-3 Science Flight RF08 SCCI-FHAW. This flight included 5 vertical profile maneuvers out of a planned 3. The flight concluded with a spiral down maneuver from 41kft over Ascension Island to correlate with a TCCON ground site. During the spiral maneuver, at 10kft, the aircraft flew level for 5 minutes to sample a layer of pollution from African biomass burning. CPDLC was not available for this flight due to a mostly system-wide outage. HF#1 radio was not working, so all oceanic ATC communication was done with HF#2 radio. Other than that, the aircraft arrived at Ascension in good shape. Troubleshooting of HF radio is planned for Ascension. Science instruments did well and it was a very successful science mission.
Submitted by:
Timothy Moes on 10/22/17
Flight Segments:
| From: | SCCI - Punta Arenas International | To: | FHAW - Ascension Auxiliary Airfield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 10/17/17 09:57 Z | Finish: | 10/17/17 19:25 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 9.5 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 188001 | PI: | Steven Wofsy | ||
| Funding Source: | Jennifer Olson - NASA - SMD - ESD - ESSP Mission Manager | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
Flight Hour Summary:
| 188001 | |
|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 107.6 |
| Total Used | 103.5 |
| Total Remaining | 4.1 |
| 188001 Flight Reports | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 10/01/17 - 10/02/17 | 1223 | Science | 10 | 10 | 97.6 | |
| 10/04/17 - 10/05/17 | 1224 | Science | 7.4 | 17.4 | 90.2 | |
| 10/06/17 - 10/07/17 | 1225 | Science | 8.9 | 26.3 | 81.3 | |
| 10/09/17 - 10/10/17 | 1226 | Science | 9.2 | 35.5 | 72.1 | |
| 10/12/17 - 10/13/17 | 1227 | Science | 9.9 | 45.4 | 62.2 | |
| 10/14/17 | 1228 | Science | 10.7 | 56.1 | 51.5 | |
| 10/17/17 | 1229 | Science | 9.5 | 65.6 | 42 | |
| 10/19/17 | 1230 | Science | 4.6 | 70.2 | 37.4 | |
| 10/20/17 | 1231 | Science | 7.7 | 77.9 | 29.7 | |
| 10/23/17 | 1232 | Science | 9.5 | 87.4 | 20.2 | |
| 10/25/17 | 1233 | Science | 9.6 | 97 | 10.6 | |
| 10/27/17 - 10/28/17 | 1234 | Science | 6.5 | 103.5 | 4.1 | |
Flight Reports began being entered into this system as of 2012 flights. If there were flights flown under an earlier log number the flight reports are not available online.
Related Science Report:
ATom - DC-8 10/17/17 Science Report
Mission:
ATom
Mission Summary:
PUQ-ASI ATom III Report
Submitted by:
Erin Czech on 05/29/18