Flight Lines and Images

April 24, 2001

Flight lines:

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On board: Jessica Britt, Dave Kohler, Paul Bissett, Rob Poston, Will Odell

Weather: Cloudy, humid, hazy, high cirrus clouds

Default Settings:

Frame Rate	Bin By	Gain	Focus	Aperature	Lens
18.25 (16.75)	4 or 1	High	5 m	4 or 5.6	Wide

8:20 AM

Camera on.

9:10 AM

Take off.

Run #	Flight Line	Start Time	Stop Time	Direction	Altitude (m)	Speed (kts)	Drift	XTK Error (NM)	Sequences	Frames	Comments
00	DARK	9:29 AM	9:30 AM							1035
01	LINE 11 MANATEE	9:35 AM	9:37 AM	E	30,000	300	0	R0.03	2	739	Very cloudy. Bottom seen easily.
02	DARK	9:38 AM	9:40 AM							1115
03	LINE 10	9:43 AM	9:47 AM	W	30,000	300	0	R0.03	3	634	ASD Dark at 30 degree Bank. Boat-Sub Chaser seen at seq. 2/ frame 400. Line endpoint 27 37.517' N and 82 59.468' W
04	DARK	9:49 AM	9:50 AM							1030
05	LINE 18	10:03 AM	10:21 AM	E	30,000	300	0	R0.03	16	779	The Link was at seq.1/ frame 200 at 10:05 am. ASD detector (1800) not registering at all starting at seq. 4. Pressurizing at 6,000 ft. Cloud layer at about 6700 ft. Clouds at seq. 7, 8, 9. Fog forming on camera window at seq.9/ frame 100. Clouds cleared away/ clear again at seq. 10. Status having problems (may have lost a few strings) at seq. 12.* Ice forming on window at seq. 13/ frame 500. * Bottom visibility was very neat looking, and different bottom types were easily seen at seq. 13 and 14.
06	DARK	10:21 AM	10:22 AM							1036
07	LINE 17	10:28 AM	10:44 AM		30,000	300	1R	R0.03	16	82	Clouds at seq. 3,4,and 5. Camera window fogged up at seq. 7/ frame 450 (directly under field of view). * Edwin Link was located at 26 53.910' and 83 23.382'. Wiped off window during seq. 12/frame 250. Cirrus clouds underneath us at seq. 14 and 15, blocked clear view of Edwin Link (seq. 14 or 15/ frames 300)
08	DARK	10:45 AM	10:46 AM							1054
09	LINE 10 PALENTINE	11:00 AM	11:05 AM		30,000	300	2R	R0.04	2	442	* Wiped off camera window at seq. 00-01. Sub Chaser spotted at seq. 01/ frame 250 (under clouds). HyGrab was grabbing frames very slowly during seq 01. * Ship at seq. 2/ frame 110. * Line end point at 27 38.697' N and 83 4.8'. * Starting during Run 08 and on, status was not correctly working.
10	DARK	11:06 AM								1028
11	LINE 11 MANATEE	11:10 AM	11:13 AM		30,000	300	1L	R0.03	1	570	Started this line a little late. It took almost 2 minutes to get one sequence, and status was flickering the whole line. Clouds at beginning of lin seq 00-01.
12	DARK	11:17 AM	11:18 AM							1067
13	LINE 10 PALENTINE	11:24 AM	11:28 AM		30,000	300	2R	R0.02	4	601	Sub Chaser was underneath clouds. Clear water, but lots of cirrus clouds. * Looked like a large boat was releasing something beginning at seq.4/ frame 50. *Stopped line at 27 38.712' and 83 4.916'.

Other notes: The camera window continuously fogged up and froze. We added alcohol to the wipes we were using, but it froze too.
Indicated altitude 29,100 ft.

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