2013-09-16 Flight Notes

Shifts (Local time = EDT = UTC-4):
	•	Jon		0800 - 1200
	•	Dave		1000 - 1600
	•	Jon		1600 - 2100
	•	Dave		2100 - 0400
	•	Jon		0400 - 1000

Timeline (All times UTC)
	•	1230 Gero in GHOC
	•	1333 GH engine start
	•	IT troubleshooting (talking to MPCS, NASDAT on AV-1 instead of AV-6)
	•	1345 Hoese arrives in GHOC
	•	1425 DC41 ON (BusA)
	•	1425 DC42 ON (BusB)
	•	1433 IL41 ON (SHIS Power)
	•	1435 Ku was not started properly waiting for IT to start a process.
	•	1441 Takeoff
	•	1448 Ku is up and data being received
	•	1450 Detectors cooled, cooler current signature is nominal
	•	1505 ABB cooled 273K, status = all green
	•	1515 Shift change:  S-HIS has been nominal.
	•	1515 Hoese shift begins (Gero depart)
	•	1752 ~45 minutes until first drop, detector temperature looks good so we won't be restarting S-HIS
	•	1916 Dryden taking over, switching mission control over to them
	•	2021 Shift change:  S-HIS has been nominal
	•	2021 Gero shift begins (Hoese depart)
	•	0050 Shift change:  S-HIS has been nominal
	•	0050 Hoese shift begins (Gero depart)
	•	0200 Started playing with NTP on S-HIS. I (DH) seem to have gotten it working, will keep an eye on it. Sent an email to JoeT, RayG, CaitlinB, DaveVG.
	•	0248 RTDR scripts on dreadnaught were reverted to pre-Aronne changes. Discussion on #shis seems to be that there is a data-dependent bug causing holes in the RTDR output. The actual holes were before this note, but we are unsure of the exact time.
	•	0319 They have added a few extra dropsondes in the south east corner of the flight track where SAL air is expected.
	•	0522 Last sonde dropped
	•	0524 Checking time drift after 3 hours from original fix and still has not gone above 1 second (Jon please keep checking this)
	•	0640 Time drift is still <1 second overall
	•	0803 Time drift is still <1 second overall
	•	0810 Shift change:  S-HIS has been nominal
	•	0810 Gero shift begins (Hoese depart)
	•	0905 Time drift is still <1 second overall
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	•	0931 IL42 ON (Descent heaters)
	•	0946 Instrument power OFF before descent (IL42, IL41, DC42, DC41)
	•	1004 Instrument power ON (DC41, DC42, IL41, IL42)
	•	1006 Start md5sum
	•	Created md5sums for sh130916
	•	1042 Instrument power OFF (DC41, DC42, IL41, IL42)
	•	1114 Landing

Misc notes
	•	S-HIS operated well throughout the flight