The day without power

While preparing ACTOS for the start this morning we had a complete power failure at the container. This seems to be a serious problem and the power did not come back until now (17:00 local). However, we were able to improvise and prepared ACTOS for another flight. PICT was implemented and Tina was curious to see some real cloud data.
The helicopter started at 10:30 local and flew again to the area close to Ragged Point. There, a vertical profile up to 8000 ft was flown above the ocean. There were only few thin clouds over the ocean and more 'real' cumulus clouds over the island. Thus, cloud chasing looked more successful over the island and we did that. I realized that the battery power of ACTOS was lower than the days before and decreased more rapidly. After roughly half an hour of cloud chasing I decided to go back since the power was really low. A few minutes later ACTOS shut off and the measurements of course were over. Back on ground the batteries were fine and we could not really explain the power failure during the flight. However, it was a nice flight with many cloud contacts and suitable to check if the new PICT was working well.