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Flight 9 - 08
Flight Log 9 - 08
| Flight Log for Sept 8th, wx: thin and sporadic stratus deck becoming thicker as flight progressed | |
| Flight course was determined by the captain and flight was instituted mainly for ice recon | |
| Action | Time (ADT) |
| Take off | 13:51:48 |
| over lead heading west | 13:55:48 |
| reset interveolmeter to 4seconds as it shut off | 13:57:50 |
| Thickining stratus deck below | 13:58:00 |
| over second lead, possibly connects to ship | 14:01:01 |
| left turn | 14:01:31 |
| cross back over second lead | 14:01:55 |
| start slow left turn, lasts ~20 seconds | 14:03:00 |
| cross back over second lead again | 14:04:18 |
| back on course | 14:04:50 |
| over another lead- lat:88 22.0N, lon:145 39.0E | 14:05:56 |
| increase elevation due to drastic thickening of clouds | 14:07:15 |
| over waypoint #3, sucker-hole containing a small lead with Nilas below, turn towards waypoint #4 at a heading of 110 degrees true | 14:09:08 |
| right turn back to point #3, due to increasing clouds and decreasing vis | 14:11:34 |
| heading of 295 true back to Point #3 | 14:14:17 |
| Left turn back to sucker-hole seen previously at waypoint #3 -we are looking around for a spot to go below the clouds | 14:15:02-51 |
| right turn, followed by a left turn to go down into the sucker-hole | 14:17:07 |
| manouver finished, down in sucker-hole, starting elevation 1200, finished 300ft | 14:18:23 |
| back on course towards waypoint #4 under the clouds, near the surface heading about east | 14:19:27 |
| down to 200ft | 14:21:52 |
| reached waypoint #4, head towards point #2 | 14:22:58 |
| right turn to check out a lead, heading east now | 14:23:03 |
| over lead, left turn back towards ship | 14:24:24 |
| climbing through an opening in the ceiling, as clouds coming close to ground | 14:25:21 |
| over another lead, 1100 feet & climbing still | 14:26:15 |
| over another lead | 14:26:54 |
| altitude steady at 1500 feet | 14:27:25 |
| over another lead with Nilas, we pass perpendicular to direction of propigation, GPS says we have a heading of 332 true | 14:28:36 |
| left turn to heading 284 true | 14:29:25 |
| reached waypoint #2 | 14:31:24 |
| Giant lead, again perp. To helo path | 14:32:04 |
| at 900 feet, decending down to 200 feet | 14:33:16 |
| climbing up | 14:34:18 |
| decend, sight healy and oden | 14:36:18 |
| level out | 14:36:59 |
| turned around, visibility is horrible | 14:38:11 |
| left turn, ~.7mi from healy, just circling around waiting to land | 14:38:41 |
| healy transit? | 14:48:20 |
| attempt to land, waived off due to lack of vis | 14:49:11 |
| just landed, turned intvelometer off. | 14:53:55 |