лучший sarp 2011

Elevation profile for the second science flight. ВPDuring the LAX missed approach we were only ~100 feet above the runway

Flight track for the June 30, 2011 SARP science flight # 2

Just after 1PM, we flew back to Palmdale, landed, and ate our lunches on the plane on the ground (there wasnвІЂЂЂt enough time to get off the plane between the two flights). ВPAt 2:30PM, we took off again for the afternoon flight and flew back to the same almond orchards and vineyards to acquire MASTER data at a different time of day.ВP Our pilots then contacted LAX to get us into the pattern for our missed approach.ВP At the preflight briefing, the Whole Air team had explained that they wanted to fly over as much of LA as possible at as low of an altitude as possible.ВP Typically, when commercial airplanes fly into LAX, air traffic controllers assign them a slow, steady descent to minimize turbulence.ВP In our case, we wanted to fly low enough over the city (below ~5000 ft) to collect air samples to measure pollution.ВP The sampling culminated with the missed approach (we flew only ~100 feet over the LAX runway!)ВP

Flight track for the June 30, 2011 SARP science flight # 1

After taking off from Palmdale at 10:30AM, we flew north to the almond orchards and vineyards to acquire MASTER data from 13,000 ft.ВP We then descended to ~1000 ft and collected air samples over Harris Ranch (a feed lot near I-5 with over 100,000 cattle).ВP During the Harris Ranch over-flight, the Whole Air team practiced the sampling strategy that they planned to use for the LAX missed approach during the afternoon flight.ВP Everyone in the Whole Air group had a specific role to play in order to facilitate the rapid collection and recording of the air samples.ВP The practice sampling run went extremely well.ВP SARP participants cheered and clapped loudly as we flew away from Harris Ranch. ВPThe pilots later commented that the cheers and excitement they heard from SARP were some of the best they had ever heard from scientists on the DC-8 as a result of collecting data!

On June 30, SARP students, mentors, faculty, and staff flew on the DC-8 for the last two science flights of the summer.ВP Everyone in all three of the research groups had the opportunity to fly on both the morning and afternoon flights (although some decided to pass on the morning flight due to the expected turbulence).

Posted on Jul 04, 2011 01:29:47 AM | Emily Schaller |    |

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