Photo courtesty of Dave Moore; King's College, London
University of Wyoming
WAICO 2008
Wyoming Airborne Integrated
Cloud Observations (Experiment)
February 1 2008 - March 31 2008
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Photo courtesty of Dave Moore; King's College, London |
University of Wyoming
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| Date | Flight # (*.kml) | Status | Times (UTC) | Hours | Notes |
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| Research Flights | |||||
| 21 July 2008 | Reprocessed and tagged: waico08_qc2 using the boom calculations for the pressure correction. | ||||
| Research Flights | |||||
| 1 Mar | RF11 | Tried to sample high alitude (all ice) clouds over Snowies, to 27 kft
Radar died, return early, end of project | 2050 - 2154 | 1.1 | |
| 28 Feb | RF10 | Targeted mid-level stratus with some wave modulation formed over Laramie Valley. Good sampling in some mixed phase wave clouds, multiple wavelets. | 2055 - 2036 | 2.8 | |
| 27 Feb | RF09 | Very good wave and lenticular clouds.
No known problems. | 1553 - 2048 | 5.0 | LO notes |
| 26 Feb | RF08 | VFR flight, no GVR problems. | 2027 - 2218 | 1.5 | LO notes |
| 23 Feb | RF07 | Only one GVR reset.
Base station GPS antenna put horizontal prior to yesterday's test flights. | 1657 - 2039 | 3.8 | LO notes |
| 20 Feb | RF06 | Worked prefrontal high and mid-level clouds over the Laramie Valley.
GVR now ignores format errors, but exhibits backwards time jumps. | 2008 - 2255 | 2.9 | LO notes |
| 16 Feb | RF05 | Worked wave clouds and wave modulated stratus ahead of system moving in; clouds very dynamic and changing quite rapidly. Radar showed very low transmit power; particularly late in flight. Sam determined that w-band detector is failing; radar is OK. | 1700 - 2005 | 3.2 | coming soon |
| 14 Feb | RF04 | Worked thick stratus deck north of Laramie. Light snow across the valley; little or no liquid water. GVR being repaired at proSensing, radar transmit power show some jitter during flight (Later determined to be prob. with scope), Radar fault 1 at end of flight, 4th seat computer went down at same time; unable to reproduce problem with 4th seat following flight. | 1552 - 1822 | 2.6 | coming soon |
| 09 Feb | RF03 | Worked wave cloud over Laramie Range, east-northeast of Laramie; by end of flight, cloud morphed into some stratus/wave modulated, some problems with GVR, WCR fault1 at end of flight, no other known problems | 1655 - 2003 | 3.3 | coming soon |
| 08 Feb | RF02 | Unable to get GVR working, noticed following takeoff, decided to scrub mission (more info in flight notes) | 2015 - 2040 | 0.5 | JF flight notes |
| 06 Feb | RF01 | Worked 2 separate wave clouds north (?) of Elk Mountain (generated off of Shirley mtns??). Wave clouds seemed to be changing rather quickly in time. Stepped up from 14 kft to 21 kft (top) through mountain cloud over the Snowy Range, leg lenth ~12 nmi. GVR not working from ~15 minutes after takeoff for rest of flight. No other known problems. | 1706 - 2004 | 3.1 | JF flight notes |
| Test Flights | |||||
| 22 Feb | TF04 | Test GVR. | 1948 - 1954 | 0.2 | |
| 22 Feb | TF03 | Test GVR, LWC-100 and wing tip strobes reset small timer words on GVR. | 1619 - 2039 | 0.3 | |
| 05 Feb | TF02 | Flight for calibration of radar beam and winds. Conducted beam cals at 3 levels, conducted Rodi maneuvers, conducted Lenschow maneuvers. No control of 4th seat computer at third seat, ran WCL, but did not display images in real-time. No other Known Problems | 1716 - 1922 | 2.2 | JF flight notes |
| 30 Jan | TF01 | Integer time stamp only for WCL, ~1.5 sec offset between WCL and UWKA clock, GVR not working, Incorrect calibration coefficients for AIAS (reprocessed with corrections file to fix), No other Known Problems | 1736 - 1844 | 1.3 | JF flight notes |
| Total Flight Hours | 29.8 of 48.0, 18.2 remain | ||||
