Flight Summary
Table 1: Summary of the TECPEC-2019 flights. Individuals highlighted in yellow indicate student members of the crew. Clicking on the research flights (RF) in the 2nd column brings up a flight track file that can be viewed in Google Earth. More details can be found at http://flights.uwyo.edu/projects/tecpec19/.
| Date | Flight # (*.kml) |
Status | Times (UTC) |
Crew/Notes |
| 29 Mar | RF09 | Flight primarily in cloud collecting microphysical data in vertically stacked passes along radials from CYS radar, a missed approach at Wheatland. | 1916-2211 | Ed Sigel Hunter Brown Dave Plummer Alice Shen |
| 23 Mar | FF01 | Second flight of day, ferried to Laramie primarily in clear air with instruments collecting measurements. | 1951-2121 | Brett Wadsworth Andy Park Dave Plummer Bart Geerts |
| 23 Mar | RF07 | First flight of day. Focused on air quality measurements along AQ2 flight track. | 1702-1811 | Brett Wadsworth Michael Wessler Dave Plummer Zac Thayn |
| 22 Mar | RF06 | Repeated constant-altitude passes in orographic clouds over the Wasatch Range. Corrupted system file for last few minutes of research measurements. |
2007-2308 | Brett Wadsworth Ed Zipser Dave Plummer Eric Betsill |
| 21 Mar | RF05 | Second flight of day, flight pattern AQ1 focused on air quality measurements around SLC and the valley with multiple low approaches. | 2040-2225 | Brett Wadsworth John Lin Dave Plummer Eric McNamee |
| 21 Mar | RF04 | First flight of day. Ferried to SLC, making multiple passes through orographic clouds between the Uinta range and the Book Cliffs, then over the Wasatch range enroute to SLC. KPR reinstalled prior to this flight. | 1411-1740 | Brett Wadsworth Jeff French Dave Plummer Andy Lambert |
| 14 Mar | RF03 | Flight targeting Storm Peak. The clouds were dissipating by the time the airport in Laramie opened. Besides torque, there were no major equipment issues. | 2007-2216 | Tom Drew Coltin Grasmick Larry Oolman Meng Zhang |
| 8 Mar | RF02 | Mostly stacked legs over the Medicine Bows through mixed phase clouds. A little bit banded and convective. The KPR was removed prior to this flight. | 1859-2134 |
Tom Drew |
| 6 Mar | RF01 | Flight over the Medicine Bow, Sierra Madre, and Elkhead Ranges. Encounterd 200-300 micron drizzle. Cut flight short. | 2003-2121 | Tom Drew Bart Geerts Larry Oolman Melinda Hatt |