{"id":37,"date":"2015-08-04T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:29:43","slug":"rain-bears-and-final-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/2015\/08\/04\/rain-bears-and-final-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, bears, and final preparation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Monday) was a day filled with preparation for flight. \u00a0This included necessary, but somewhat mundane tasks, such as executing radio range checks, setting up stakes to determine the direction of true north for aircraft initialization, fine-tuning the autopilot code, setting up flight plans in the computer, and testing equipment. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be very honest and say that while these are necessary components of preparing for an extended field campaign, they are not nearly as interesting or exciting to write about in a blog! \u00a0Therefore, I won&#8217;t get into details on what all of this entailed, but I&#8217;ll leave it at sharing some photos of the crew at work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/Dale_Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/Dale_Photo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Dale Lawrence working to fine-tune the autopilot and get things set up for flight.\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/Dale_Photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/Dale_Photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/Dale_Photo-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Dale Lawrence working to fine-tune the autopilot and get things set up for flight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"size-large wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Nathan, Will, Dale and Gijs, preparing for an aircraft radio range test.  Gijs is monitoring a grizzly bear that has been spotted far away from the site.\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2015\/08\/P1010859.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Nathan, Will, Dale and Gijs, preparing for an aircraft radio range test. Gijs is monitoring a grizzly bear that has been spotted far away from the site.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The weather was less than cooperative today &#8212; it&#8217;s not very common to have solid rain on the North Slope, but it does happen on occasion. \u00a0Today was apparently that occasion. \u00a0In combination with 15-20 mph winds, the rain was solid enough to get you very wet in about 3 minutes if standing outside. \u00a0Unfortunately, the 3-minute time estimate came from personal experience, as one of our tests required that I stood outside for approximately 4 minutes, and I had not put my rain pants on. \u00a0The bears apparently didn&#8217;t mind the rain, as the site was on alert today for a grizzly bear that was roaming somewhere in the proximity of the AMF3. \u00a0Fortunately, we have several people, including ourselves, to keep a close eye on exactly how close the bears get! \u00a0Today\u00a0is likely to be somewhat better, with slightly less wind, and substantially less rain. \u00a0Assuming that forecast holds, we are planning for a day full of flights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Monday) was a day filled with preparation for flight. \u00a0This included necessary, but somewhat mundane tasks, such as executing radio range checks, setting up stakes to determine the direction of true north for aircraft initialization, fine-tuning the autopilot code, setting up flight plans in the computer, and testing equipment. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be very honest and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/2015\/08\/04\/rain-bears-and-final-preparation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-28 05:31:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}