Photo courtesty of Vanda Grubisic, DRI
University of Wyoming
ACME 2007
Airborne Carbon in the
Mountains Experiment
March 26 2007 - August 15 2007
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Photo courtesty of Vanda Grubisic, DRI |
University of Wyoming
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| Date | Flight # (*.kml) | Status | Times (UTC) | Hours | Notes |
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| IOP 3 | |||||
| 9 Aug | Flight 18 | Morning flight; Part III of III part flight experiment. No known problems. | 2007-2312 | 3.2 | JF notes & debrief |
| 9 Aug | Flight 17 | Morning flight; Part II of III part flight experiment. No known problems. | 1357-1807 | 4.3 | JF notes & debrief |
| 8 Aug | Flight 16 | Afternoon flight; Part I of III part flight experiment. No known problems. | 1846-2256 | 4.3 | JF notes & debrief |
| 3 Aug | Flight 15 | Afternoon flight; Repeated error in RealTime (IP429 ARINC Fault), RealTime data looked OK, Processed data looked OK; Conducted majority of flight IFR. | 2010-2215 | 2.2 | JF notes & debrief |
| 3 Aug | Flight 14 | Morning Flight; Considerable areas of clouds, needed to conduct portions of the flight IFR, lots of rain/water during second half of flight. No known problems. | 1406-1758 | 4.0 | JF notes & debrief |
| 1 Aug | Flight 13 | Afternoon flight; No known problems | 2007-2221 | 2.4 | JF notes & debrief |
| 1 Aug | Flight 12 | Morning flight; No known problems | 1331-1720 | 3.9 | JF notes & debrief |
| 27 July | Flight 11 | Test flight for O2 instrument. CO2 and CO instrument not connected during flight. CPC intermittent, bad channel on data system? Incorrect leap seconds (107?), timing problem fixed in processed files (?). | 1644-1821 | 1.7 | JF notes & debrief |
| 18 July | Flight 10 | Air conditioner not working; high cabin and DAS temperatures (especially early in flight. No other known problems. | 2023-2319 | 3.0 | JF notes & debrief |
| 18 July | Flight 9 | Air conditoner not working; CPC not working for first half of flight (reason unknown); Analog1 card problems on DAS startup, needed to manually reset card takeoff delayed by 30 minutes. | 1500-1741 | 2.8 | JF notes & debrief |
| IOP 2 | |||||
| 21 June | Flight 8 | No known problems. | 2024-2355 | 3.6 | |
| 21 June | Flight 7 | No known problems. | 1453-1801 | 3.2 | |
| 15 June | Flight 6 | No known problems. | 2021-2310 | 2.9 | |
| 15 June | Flight 5 | MRI Turbulence not turned on until 1505Z. | 1420-1748 | 3.6 | |
| 7 June | Flight 4 | Primary static pressure, HADS-A, down. Used HADS-B in calculations.
EGG chilled mirror hygrometer looks fine. | 1536-1729 | 2.0 | |
| 1 June | Flight 3 | EGG chilled mirror hygrometer oscillating at higher dewpoints. | 1856-2028 | 1.6 | |
| 1 June | Flight 2 | EGG chilled mirror hygrometer oscillating at higher dewpoints. | 1353-1710 | 3.4 | LDO notes |
| IOP 1 | |||||
| 3 May | Flight 1 | No known problems w/ KA, CO2 instrument froze on climb out of Rifle when running on ambient air, appeared to be OK prior. TAMDAR was not operating | 1405-1704 | 3.1 | JF notes & debrief |
| Test Flights | |||||
| 2 May | Test 6 | No known problems, Engine runup & pressurization on ground prior to flight to check CO2 instrument sensitivity to cabin pressure, Pitch maneuvers and sideslips, low pass NE near Laramie Peak, upon landing, nearing power down, Tom noticed fault light on INS, subsequent look at the data, everything was OK. TAMDAR was not operating | 2030-2118 | 0.9 | |
| 27 April | Test 5 | No known problems, Pitch maneuvers and sideslips near the beginning of flight outside of BL. Three missed approaches (2 Walden, 1 Kremmling), spiral descent over Willow Creek. TAMDAR was not operating | 1830-1953 | 1.5 | JF debrief |
| 25 April | Test 4 | No known problems, Pitch maneuvers and sideslips to test CO2 instrument response to a/c motion, TAMDAR not getting our heading data(??) | 2014-2026 | 0.3 | JF notes & debrief |
| 25 April | Test 3 | No known problems, Pitch maneuvers and sideslip maneuvers to test CO2 instrument response to a/c motion, Two ascents/descents to check pressure sesitivity, descents conducted at different rates to check sensitivity to descent rates; TAMDAR was not getting our heading data(??) | 1626-1729 | 1.2 | JF notes & debrief |
| 16 April | Test 2 | No known problems, Pitch maneuvers and Rodi maneuvers to test CO2 instrument response to a/c motion, punched through non-precipitating clouds to/fr, TAMDAR was not operating | 1715-1804 | 0.9 | JF debrief |
| 09 April | Test 1 | No GPS during flight, no 3rd seat keyboard control of user supplied CO instrument, Rodi Maneuvers | 2120-2257 | 1.7 | JF notes & debrief B Stephens notes |
| Total Flight Hours | 61.7 of 62.0, 0.3 remain | ||||