P-3 Orion 11/03/17
| From: | SAWH | To: | SAWH | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 11/03/17 12:38 Z | Finish: | 11/03/17 21:36 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 9 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 18P006 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
| Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| Comments: | OIB flew the baseline priority South Peninsula B mission today | ||||
| 18P006 | |
|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 151 |
| Total Used | 156 |
| Total Remaining | -5 |
| 18P006 Flight Reports | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 10/17/17 | OIB - Airworthiness Test Flight | Check | 1.1 | 1.1 | 149.9 | |
| 10/18/17 | OIB - Project Test Flight | Check | 3.5 | 4.6 | 146.4 | |
| 10/19/17 | OIB PTF - Radar | Check | 4.5 | 9.1 | 141.9 | |
| 10/23/17 | OIB - Transit leg #1 | Transit | 7.1 | 16.2 | 134.8 | |
| 10/24/17 | OIB - Transit leg #2 | Transit | 6.5 | 22.7 | 128.3 | |
| 10/25/17 | OIB - Transit leg #3 | Transit | 7 | 29.7 | 121.3 | |
| 10/29/17 - 10/30/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #1 | Science | 9.7 | 39.4 | 111.6 | |
| 10/31/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #2 | Science | 8.9 | 48.3 | 102.7 | |
| 11/03/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #3 | Science | 9 | 57.3 | 93.7 | |
| 11/04/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #4 | Science | 9.3 | 66.6 | 84.4 | |
| 11/12/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #5 | Science | 9.5 | 76.1 | 74.9 | |
| 11/14/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #6 | Science | 9.8 | 85.9 | 65.1 | |
| 11/16/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #7 | Science | 9.1 | 95 | 56 | |
| 11/21/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #8 | Science | 9.4 | 104.4 | 46.6 | |
| 11/22/17 - 11/23/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #9 | Science | 9.9 | 114.3 | 36.7 | |
| 11/24/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #10 | Science | 9.6 | 123.9 | 27.1 | |
| 11/25/17 - 11/26/17 | OIB-Ushuaia Science Flight #11 | Science | 9.5 | 133.4 | 17.6 | |
| 11/27/17 | OIB-Ushuaia SAWH-SCDA Transit Flight | Transit | 7 | 140.4 | 10.6 | |
| 11/28/17 | OIB-Ushuaia SCDA-MROC Transit Flight | Transit | 7 | 147.4 | 3.6 | |
| 11/29/17 | OIB-Ushuaia MROC-KNGU Transit Flight | Transit | 6.3 | 153.7 | -2.7 | |
| 11/29/17 | OIB-Ushuaia KNGU-KWAL Transit Flight | Transit | 0.8 | 154.5 | -3.5 | |
| 12/04/17 | OIB-Post Mission Calibration Flight | Science | 1.5 | 156 | -5 | |
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OIB - P-3 Orion 11/03/17 Science Report
This is primarily a repeat flight, designed to re-fly a portion of a coast-parallel grid on the west side of Dyer Plateau, with grid lines spaced at 20 km. This grid is intended to assess dh/dt in this area, and on its south end it connects with a similarly-designed grid in the English Coast 03 flight. The remainder of this grid is flown in the companion South Peninsula A flight.
Overall, it was a good day for data collection. Clouds were present on a small part of the southernmost edge of the flight path impacting ATM and DMS, but good data was collected the rest of the line. All instruments worked well today, though with the gravimeter ground station stuck in the sea cargo data gaps may be possible along the line.
Data volumes
ATM: T6: 53 Gb T7: 63 Gb
FLIR: 7.0 Gb
Cambot: 20 Gb
KT19: 12 Mb
DMS: 33.5 Gb
MCoRDS: 534.0 Gb
Gravity/Magnetometer: 3 Gb
Accumulation radar: 586 Gb
Snow/Ku radar: 589 Gb
data on: 1555
data off: 1845
