Project # 2005-304 RAINEX
Hurricane RAinband and INtensity-change EXperiment
Principal Investigator(s): Shuyi S. Chen, Robert A. Houze, Jr.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory P-3 Orion
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Project # 2005-304 RAINEX Hurricane RAinband and INtensity-change EXperiment Principal Investigator(s): Shuyi S. Chen, Robert A. Houze, Jr. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory P-3 Orion |
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Summary of IRU Performance
| IRU Serial Number: 176 | ||||||
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| DATE | FLIGHT NO. | FINAL POSITION ERROR IN LATITUDE (MINUTES) | FINAL POSITION ERROR IN LONGITUDE (MINUTES) | TIME IN NAVIGATE MODE (HOURS) | POSITION ERROR (NMI/H) | |
| 08/27/2005 | RF01 + | S 1.3' | W 3.0' | 8.63 | 0.34 | |
| 08/28/2005 | RF02 * | S 4.8' | E 2.3' | 6.58 | 0.81 | |
| 09/06/2005 | RF03 | N 2.4' | E 1.5' | 5.48 | 0.50 | |
| 09/09/2005 | RF04 | S 0.5' | W 0.2' | 9.06 | 0.06 | |
| 09/11/2005 | RF05 | S 0.7' | E 0.3' | 9.67 | 0.08 | |
| 09/19/2005 | RF06 | N 3.9' | E 1.0' | 6.73 | 0.59 | |
| 09/21/2005 | RF07 | N 2.3' | E 4.0' | 9.62 | 0.44 | |
| 09/22/2005 | RF08 | N 1.5' | E 1.6' | 8.10 | 0.25 | |
| 09/23/2005 | RF09 | S 3.3' | W 2.4' | 9.23 | 0.42 | |
| 08/17/2005 | TF05 * | S 3.9' | W 0.6' | 5.20 | 0.75 | |
| + IRU initialized with incorrect longitude.
Note: IRU performance calculation was NOT based on this incorrect coordinate. | ||||||
| * IRU initialized for wrong airport (PIE instead of MCF). IRU drift calculation based on the incorrect coordinates (PIE). | ||||||