Sample AMF3 Flight Pattern
This flight pattern was typical of our attempts to lock the autopilot in during high-wind conditions. The dark spot in the bottom right of the figure is the hangar at Oliktok Point and its shadow, and the diagonal linear feature is the runway.
In October 2014, ARM funded a team from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) to operate a small, lightweight unmanned aircraft called "DataHawk." This was in support of the Coordinated Observations of the Arctic Lower Atmosphere (COALA) field campaign hosted at Oliktok Point in order to measure heat and moisture fluxes between the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere.
Terms of Use: Our images are freely and publicly available for use with the credit line, “Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.”
Sample AMF3 Flight Pattern
This flight pattern was typical of our attempts to lock the autopilot in during high-wind conditions. The dark spot in the bottom right of the figure is the hangar at Oliktok Point and its shadow, and the diagonal linear feature is the runway.
In October 2014, ARM funded a team from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) to operate a small, lightweight unmanned aircraft called "DataHawk." This was in support of the Coordinated Observations of the Arctic Lower Atmosphere (COALA) field campaign hosted at Oliktok Point in order to measure heat and moisture fluxes between the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere.
Terms of Use: Our images are freely and publicly available for use with the credit line, “Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.”