This afternoon flight #3 took place. After a first look in the data it seems that this was also a successful 90-minutes measurement flight. Our observations started with an ascent up to a height of about 6.500 feet followed by a horizontal leg there. Subsequently, we went down to cloud-level (3.000 feet) and flew another horizontal leg. Unfortunately, no clouds were there to chase… so we decided to go below cloud base, which was at approximately 1.500 feet (helicopter height). At this altitude we could be sure that ACTOS was performing measurements in the marine boundary layer. After that we back to cloud level, but still no clouds were within our operational area. When it was time to fly back to the Concord Centre we were really lucky, because finally clouds crossed our way. It was an amazing view seeing ACTOS to disappear in the clouds and SMART-Helios doing a solo-flight above the clouds!
Freitag, 12. November 2010
Flight #3
This afternoon flight #3 took place. After a first look in the data it seems that this was also a successful 90-minutes measurement flight. Our observations started with an ascent up to a height of about 6.500 feet followed by a horizontal leg there. Subsequently, we went down to cloud-level (3.000 feet) and flew another horizontal leg. Unfortunately, no clouds were there to chase… so we decided to go below cloud base, which was at approximately 1.500 feet (helicopter height). At this altitude we could be sure that ACTOS was performing measurements in the marine boundary layer. After that we back to cloud level, but still no clouds were within our operational area. When it was time to fly back to the Concord Centre we were really lucky, because finally clouds crossed our way. It was an amazing view seeing ACTOS to disappear in the clouds and SMART-Helios doing a solo-flight above the clouds!
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