This was quite a straightforward recovery of this flight from Poprad(Ganovce).
There were some quite severe winds and I found this sonde and balloon in an old orchard and from the telemetry readings you can see that the temperature sensor did not survive the landing.
You can see the record of the flight HERE
Video of the recovery below:
This was an exciting one 😀 It was my first sonde from Vienna. I was actually suprised to see it appear on my station data in the morning so decided to attempt to collect it.
Since it was in quite a flat area, I needed to get quite close before I was able to receive a signal from it. It was in a freshly ploughed field.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was an RS41-SG model with a parachute and fully intact balloon. This is the most complete one I’ve found so far.
Also of intrest is how far it travelled after it burst.
