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N 54 degrees, 44.754' W110 degrees 02.493'
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N 54 degrees, 44.754' W110 degrees 02.493'
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4 comments:
Having a little experience at dropping objects from a C-130, I can understand the excitement from you and your co-workers.
Are they getting wind readouts from different altitudes before they drop (either by balloon or by them actually circling up thru the heavens to record such information?
If the Canuks are anything like the USAF, they have to convene an "Off DZ" (drop zone) report and investigation (probably to include a board of somekind of aviation experts. They have to determine if it was equipment failure(aircraft or guidance of the chute) or a bad navigation technique (like a bad "CARP"..Calcutated Air Release Point).
All in all I'd say you'd better have a spotter to track this thing in relation to your actual location or a better remote site to operate the optical tracking system from (i.e. Ft Walton Beach)
Dave,
We don't actually know what readouts they get. There are no balloons on the range. They have only rarely made a siting pass over the range before commencing drops. It could be that they are circling the heavens measuring the winds, but they are doing it about 30 klicks or more from the drop zone if so.
Also we don't get any feedback about what went wrong (or what went right as it has a majority of the time).
The folks who out to the stations (the green circles) go by twos and they do use a spotter some of the time.
We could remotely operate this from Ft. Walton, except for the pesky time delay imposed by the speed of light and slow internet connections.
Correction:
They do use balloons. The official explanation is that the winds changed dramatically in the 2 hours between when they sent up the balloons and when they dropped. Haven't yet heard the explanation for yesterday's misses.
Tim,
More photos from the North would be appreciated. Its too warm in FWB to appreciate the fun you are having.
WJB ENG ESD
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