After some trouble-shooting in the morning we finally could take off at 1:20pm local. We tried again to heading off the East coast around Ragged Point but the flight startet with 8 minutes of hovering in 50 m with ACTOS stil on the field until we got finally flight permission from ATC.
We defined a 10 km long leg in the North of Ragged Point to avoid any conflict with commercial traffic and were nearly free to do what we want. After a profile up to 7500 ft we tried to sample clouds and we got a lot of them in different heights - sometimes at cloud top, sometimes at the cloud edge.
Again, cloud tops were very inhomogeneous. Most clouds were still actively growing which was quite a challenge for the pilots. A lot of clouds produced precipiation - even a few very shallow ones which resulted in many rainbows below us. Sometimes virgae could be observed between the clouds (see photo above). After a final horizontal leg in 1000 ft above sea level ACTOS and the helicopter got washed in a slight shower.
This was definitively the flight with the most cloud contacts - we're getting better!
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