Sonntag, 21. November 2010

Clouds, clouds and music

The second flight of this day started at 18:28 UTC. During noon, small cumulus clouds developed and started to grow. Since the most clouds were located at the east coast, we decided to fly to Ragged Point. After a leg at a height of 240 feet (Actos height) above the ocean, we climbed up to 10000 feet. As we looked down, lots of nice clouds were below us. We ask the pilots to descent and to chase for clouds. During chasing, we could follow the development of tiny cumulus clouds to mature ones. The first picture shows the cloud situation during the profile and the second one only 20 minutes later at the height of the clouds. Afterwards, we flew back to the airport at a height of 3000 feet.
Finally, the pilots did a good job, caught a lot of clouds and provided a nice entertainment program. I really enjoyed my first research flight.

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