Lear 36 FASTEX Flight Number 12 Summary
Aircraft: Lear36/ N12FN (Call Sign FNT 212)
Date: 22 February 1997
Take-off: 2205 UTC (YYT - St. John's, Newfoundland)
Landing: 0055 UTC (YYT - St. John's, Newfoundland)
Pilots: Gordon Stevenson and John Huchowski (both of Flight International, Inc.)
Navigator: John Huchowski
Crew #1 (on board scientist) : Ray Ramos (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Crew #2 (dropsonde operator): Dean Lauritsen (NCAR)
Proposed Flight Plan
Take-off : 2200 UTC 22 February 1997
1) St. John's
2) Turn Point #1 52N 45W
3) Turn Point #2 48N 45W
4) St. John's
One drop at each turning point Additional drops: 3 on first leg,
2 on second leg, and 3 on final leg for a total of 10 drops.
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Synopsis:
All legs of the flight were completed as planned and all 10 drops
deployed. Upon take-off clearance was given by Gander to FL 270 due
traffic. Requests to ascend to FL410 were denied, also due traffic,
so all drops were made at FL270.
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Summary of drop times, locations ( in degrees (d)) , flight level (FL) data
drop/time(UTC)/FL(hundreds of feet)/FL(temp C)/FL wind (ddd@ff)/lon/lat
01) 2223 270 -37 259@182 50d42.6' 48d58.0'
02) 2234 270 -39 263@166 48d59.2' 50d01.0'
03) 2246 270 -42 270@176 47d01.8' 51d00.3'
04)* 2259 270 -43 270@196 44d42.0' 51d48.2'
05) 2309 270 -43 252@71 45d00.2' 50d45.8'
06) 2322 270 -39 244@76 45d00.1' 49d15.5'
07)* 2335 270 -37 243@79 45d05.2' 47d58.5'
08) 2351 270 -36 244@125 46d58.5' 48d00.9'
09) 0008 270 -36 238@122 48d55.0' 47d53.9'
10) 0026 270 -36 234@124 50d44.0' 47d47.0'
Notes: 1) (*) Turning points . These drops were
made after the turn was completed.
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Appended observations/notes
Observations from plane at each drop
1) 90% altocumulus
2) 100% altocumulus
3) 10% altocumulus
4) 50% altocumulus
5) 30% altocumulus
6) 70% altocumulus
7) 70% altocumulus
8) 50% altocumulus
9) 100% altocumulus
10) 100% altocumulus
Total flight time: 2+50
Total flight (ground) distance: 954 nm
Ray Ramos
rramos@meteor.wisc.edu