Flight Director's log

These are ASCII files of the electronic events log kept by each mission's Flight Director. The first line of the log contains the flight ID, which is the year, month, and day of the mission followed by an letter identifier of the aircraft used.

There follows the event log itself. Each entry shows the time and location of the aircraft during the event. Several parameters, such as the temperature, dew point, track, radar altitude, wind direction and speed, and the SFMR wind estimate are listed before the comment section. The comment lists the reason for the event, usually some significant occurance during the flight, such as turns, changes in altitude, or the launch of expendibles.

Example

070901H
Time       LAT        LON          TA    TD     TK       RA     WD     WS    SFMR    WZ        Comments
         
194257    17.42.00   -64.47.64   34.4   22.8   92.8    10.0  276.9    2.4    0.0     .4        Engine st6art
194353    17.42.00   -64.47.64   33.5   23.3   20.2    10.0  266.7    4.2    0.0     .8        Block out
195536    17.42.12   -64.48.12   29.7   23.4   83.9    -3.0   39.5    4.2    0.0    -.4        Take off
202722    15.51.54   -65.10.32    9.4    8.3  189.6  3256.0   97.4   15.0   13.6     .2        Abt 148 mi to IP
204243    14.49.02   -65.27.48   10.6    5.5  210.3  3243.0   83.8   16.4   12.0    -.0        Abt 20 mi frm IP
205748    13.48.30   -66. 3.96   12.0    8.0  209.9  2920.0   65.5   14.5   15.1     .1        Descend to 8k PA
210427    13.24.96   -66.24.84   13.3   11.4  224.5  2585.0   46.6   13.3   12.3    -.2        Turn inbound