HU-25C Guardian 10/22/15
| From: | BGSF | To: | BGSF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 10/22/15 10:14 Z | Finish: | 10/22/15 12:12 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 2 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 16F002 | PI: | John Woods | ||
| Funding Source: | Thomas Wagner - NASA - SMD - ESD Cryospheric Science | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| Comments: | OIB Science flight #22, final mission for OIB Arctic melt season. Flown as planned at FL310 with little cloud interruption. 99% of data collected. Ramp pass at 5,000 feet obscured by overcast clouds was ineffective. Next event is ferry N525NA home. | ||||
| 15F005 | 16F002 | |
|---|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 100 | |
| Flight Hours Previously Approved | 67.4 | |
| Total Used | 32.6 | 65.3 |
| Total Remaining | 2.1 |
| 16F002 Flight Reports | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 10/05/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Sea Ice Central | Science | 3.6 | 3.6 | 63.8 | |
| 10/05/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Sea Ice East | Science | 3.8 | 7.4 | 60 | |
| 10/06/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Ice-Sat2 North | Science | 4 | 11.4 | 56 | |
| 10/07/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Transit Thule to Kangerlussuaq | Transit | 2 | 13.4 | 54 | |
| 10/08/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Southwest Coastal A | Science | 3.8 | 17.2 | 50.2 | |
| 10/08/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Thomas-Jakobshavn 01 | Science | 3.7 | 20.9 | 46.5 | |
| 10/09/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Umanaq B | Science | 3.9 | 24.8 | 42.6 | |
| 10/13/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Jakobshavn Eqip Store | Science | 2.9 | 27.7 | 39.7 | |
| 10/13/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Southeast Coastal A | Science | 3.6 | 31.3 | 36.1 | |
| 10/18/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Southeast Coastal B | Science | 4.1 | 35.4 | 32 | |
| 10/19/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Helheim-Kangerdlugussuaq | Science | 3.7 | 39.1 | 28.3 | |
| 10/19/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Helheim-Kangerdlugussuaq Gap B | Science | 3.9 | 43 | 24.4 | |
| 10/20/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Jakobshavn Mop-Up | Science | 3.7 | 46.7 | 20.7 | |
| 10/20/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Southwest Coastal B | Science | 3.7 | 50.4 | 17 | |
| 10/21/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Southwest Coastal C | Science | 3.4 | 53.8 | 13.6 | |
| 10/21/15 | OIB2015 Arctic K-EGIG-Summit | Science | 3.7 | 57.5 | 9.9 | |
| 10/22/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Mopup South | Science | 2 | 59.5 | 7.9 | |
| 10/22/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Ferry BGSF-CYYR | Ferry | 2.2 | 61.7 | 5.7 | |
| 10/23/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Ferry CYYR-KRIC | Ferry | 3.3 | 65 | 2.4 | |
| 10/23/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Ferry CYYR-KRIC | Ferry | 0.3 | 65.3 | 2.1 | |
| 15F005 Flight Reports | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 09/15/15 | OIB #1 | Check | 2.7 | 2.7 | 97.3 | |
| 09/20/15 | OIB #2, 3, 4 | Ferry | 2.7 | 5.4 | 94.6 | |
| 09/21/15 | OIB #2, 3, 4 | Ferry | 2.3 | 7.7 | 92.3 | |
| 09/21/15 | OIB #2, 3, 4 | Ferry | 2 | 9.7 | 90.3 | |
| 09/23/15 | OIB2015 Arctic North Central Gap 02 | Science | 3.9 | 13.6 | 86.4 | |
| 09/24/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Northwest Coastal A | Science | 3.7 | 17.3 | 82.7 | |
| 09/25/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Northwest Coastal B | Science | 3.8 | 21.1 | 78.9 | |
| 09/28/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Sea Ice West | Science | 3.7 | 24.8 | 75.2 | |
| 09/30/15 | OIB2015 Arctic North Central Gap 01 | Science | 3.9 | 28.7 | 71.3 | |
| 09/30/15 | OIB2015 Arctic Zachariae-79N | Science | 3.9 | 32.6 | 67.4 | |
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OIB - HU-25C Guardian 10/22/15 Science Report
Mission: Falcon Mopup South (priority: n/a)
This short mission is designed to refly the western portions of two east-west transects across the ice sheet originally from the high-priority "Southeast Coastal A" mission. The portions of these lines west of the ice divide were clouded the day we flew that mission, and those are the portions we are re-flying today. We extended the lines a few dozen kilometers to the east from the divide, in order to assure connectivity and overlap with the clear areas from the original flight.
Weather was once again quite good for this flight. The east-west survey lines were bookended by low clouds on both their east and west ends, but we successfully surveyed both lines in their entirety except for the fogged westernmost few kilometers of the northern line, for 99% data coverage.
All instruments performed well.
We conducted a ramp pass at 5000' MSL just prior to landing.
Data volumes:
DMS: 5.5 Gb
Narrow Swath ATM: 9 Gb
FLIR: 868 Mb
total data collection time: 1.5 hrs
