Flight Lines and Images

November 11 , 2000

11 November 2000

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Science Crew: Jessica Britt (data logger), Paul Bissett (instrument operator), and Bob Steward

Weather: clear, blue skies, but hazy with low cloud cover at 10,000 ft.

0900 EDT

Camera on, Computer on.

1010 EDT

Take off.

Run #	Flight Line	Start/ Finish	Altitude (ft)	Speed (kts)	Lens	Bin by	Frame Rate	Frame Count	Comments
00	Dark	1032	29500	300		4		1070
00	Dark	1038	30000	300		4		1365	Stratocumulus clouds
01	011	1045	30000	286-300		4		19820	At sequence 02 we reached 300 kts. My hand was in field of view during run 01, sequence 4.
02	Dark	1105	30000	300		4		1141
03	Line 11B	1120	3000	300		4		4336	Better view now, no clouds. We stopped this line about 3 miles short because of navigation problems. Finger like stretches, possible Langmuir Swells, lots of boats (fishing ?), something in water, maybe a bloom of some sort?
04	Dark	1128	30000	300		4		2057
05	03 (ext ended)	1131	30000	315 down to 300		4		4359	Started at 315 kts but dropped down to 300 kts. Lots of sun, no clouds. Sun Angle 43 degrees.
06	Dark	1135	30000	300		4		1328	Having a few navigation problems with exact points for lat. and long.
07	03	1155	30000	300		4		14373	Flew over the Otter, right near the coast. Started 10-12 miles south of the north end point. Sequence 07 started traditional beginning of line 3.
08	Dark	1210	30000	300		4		1343	Finger stretches again(Langmuir Swells)
09	30-4	1222				4		2361	John's line
10	Dark	1225	30000	300		4		1486
11	30-1	1230				4		2549	John's line
12	Dark	1232	30000	300		4		1157
13	MAB	1240		285-300		4		1607	At the end of sequence 00, we reached 300 kts.
14	Dark	1243	30000	300		4		2186	We want sequence 01 instead of 00.
15	M.A.B. Hanger 5 & Bayshore	1253				4		2629
16	Dark	1256	30000	300		4		1115

Other notes:

Had problems with flight patrols in Jacksonville and Tampa. They needed every lat and long point where we wanted to go.

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