Code:

Explanation:

271299

This is the departure date, in day-month-year format. This flight departed on December 27th, 1999.

TO144311

This code refers to the flight's departure in military time (hh:mm:ss). This flight took-off (TO) at 14:43:11, or 2:43 in the afternoon. This is an extremely important code to note, as it makes searching for a specific flight much easier in the event you need to return to the flight recorder data (which can be voluminous).

Arbflt#

This is an arbitrary flight number assigned to differentiate between data from multiple flights stored in the flight recorder before the data is retrieved.

Frames

These two columns refer to frame numbers (labels for observations that are taken every 128 seconds).

Time

Refers to the time the observation was recorded.

Lat

Refers to the latitude of the plane (in degrees) at the time the observation was recorded. North latitudes have positive values.

Long

Refers to the longitude latitude of the plane (in degrees) at the time the observation was recorded. East longitudes have positive values.

Alt

Refers to the altitude of the plane (in feet) at the time the observation was recorded.

Flev

Refers to the flight level of the plane (in hundreds of feet) at the time the observation was recorded. (This is how air traffic control and pilots refer to altitude).

Temp

Refers to the outside air temperature in degrees Celsius.

Wang

Refers to the angle from which the outside wind is blowing (from 0 to 360 degrees). A wind angle of 327 means the wind is blowing from the northwest.

Wspd

Refers to the velocity of the outside wind (in m/s) measured independently of the speed of the aircraft. An increase of 1 m/s corresponds to an increase of 2.24 miles per hour (100 m/s = 224 mph).