Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (tc4) at UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070802 Date: 07/31/07 Time: 2:13 PM
DC-8 schedule - Thursday, 2 August 2007

Power on/access 8:00a - 4:00p

ER-2 schedule - Thursday, 2 August 2007

Power on/hands on 7:00a - 2:00p

Bus schedule - Monday, 30 July 2007

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 6:30a (e.g., 6:30a, 7:00a, 7:30a, …). The last bus of the day will leave the Melia Cariari at 5:00p.

The bus to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 7:00a (e.g., 7:00a, 7:30a, 8:00a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.

* There will be a Science Team meeting at 9:30a on Thursday, 2 August. It will be held in the conference room on the second floor of the ER-2 hangar.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Wednesday, 1 August - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Thursday, 2 August - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Friday, 3 August - 9:00a and 2:30p

All orientation sessions conducted in Kathy Thompson’s office (Office 1, WB-57F hangar). The training takes approximately 15 minutes. The schedule for training beyond Saturday will be provided at a later date.

* !!!!! Note new schedule for Alterra test on badging and foreign object debris (FOD): !!!!!

- Thursday, 2 August, 11:30a

The test will be given in the second-floor conference room in the Base Dos Presidential Hangar (aka the ER-2 hangar). You can retrieve a copy of the Alterra briefing information from the following secure web site:

http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/training/

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070801 Date: 07/31/07 Time: 12:01 PM
DC-8 schedule - Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Hard down day - no aircraft access.

ER-2 Schedule - Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Hard down day - no aircraft access.

* There will be no shuttle bus between the Melia Cariari and the TC4 operations site on Wednesday, 1 August. Investigators wanting to come out to the base are encouraged to carpool or take a taxi. If you take a taxi, ask the driver to take you to ‘Base Dos, Puerta Nueve’ (Bah-zeh Dohs, Pu-wear-ta Nu-eh-veh).

* Thursday, 2 August will be a no-fly day. Aircraft access schedules will be provided once they have been defined.

* The next Science Team meeting is scheduled for 9:30a on Thursday, 2 August. It will be held in the conference room on the second floor

* Current plans are to fly the DC-8 and ER-2 on Friday, 3 August. Schedules will be provided once they have been defined.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Tuesday, 31 July - 2:30p
- Wednesday, 1 August - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Thursday, 2 August - 9:00a and 2:30p

All orientation sessions conducted in Kathy Thompson’s office (Office 1, WB-57F hangar). The training takes approximately 15 minutes. The schedule for training beyond Saturday will be provided at a later date.

* !!!!! Note new schedule for Alterra test on badging and foreign object debris (FOD): !!!!!

- Thursday, 2 August, 11:30a

The test will be given in the second-floor conference room in the Base Dos Presidential Hangar (aka the ER-2 hangar). You can retrieve a copy of the Alterra briefing information from the following secure web site:

http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/training/

Dear All,

Here is the flight report for the DC-8 science flight conducted from Costa Rica on 22 July 2007.

This report also will be posted on the TC4 web site - http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/

Regards,

Kathy

DC-8 Flight Report 2007-07-22

Attached is the ER-2 flight report for Tuesday, 24 July.

ER-2 Flight Report 2007-07-24

Attached is the ER-2 flight report for Sunday, 29 July.

ER-2 Flight Report: 2007-07-29

!!! Note new schedule for Alterra test below !!!

DC-8 schedule - Tuesday, 31 July 2007

4:15a Power on
4:45a Pre-flight brief (in the ‘clamshell’ hangar)
5:45a Doors close
6:30a Take off
2:30p Land
2:50p Post-flight brief (in the ‘clamshell’ hangar 20 minutes after landing)
3:30p Power off

ER-2 schedule - Tuesday, 31 July 2007

3:00a Power on/hands on
4:00a Hands off
7:00a Take off
12:00n Land
12:30p Post-flight brief (in the ER-2 hangar conference room on the second floor, approximately 30 minutes after landing)

Bus schedule - Tuesday, 31 July 2007

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 2:00a (e.g., 2:00a, 2:30a, 3:00a, …). The last bus of the day will leave the Melia Cariari at 5:00p.

The bus to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 2:30a (e.g., 2:30a, 3:00a, 3:30a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.

* The schedule for the next Science Team meeting will be announced at a later date. The meeting will be held in the conference room on the second floor of the ER-2 hangar.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Tuesday, 31 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Wednesday, 1 August - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Thursday, 2 August - 9:00a and 2:30p

All orientation sessions conducted in Kathy Thompson’s office (Office 1, WB-57F hangar). The training takes approximately 15 minutes. The schedule for training beyond Sunday will be provided at a later date.

* !!!!! Note new schedule for Alterra test on badging and foreign object debris (FOD): !!!!!

- Thursday, 2 August, 11:30a

The test will be given in the second-floor conference room in the Base Dos Presidential Hangar (aka the ER-2 hangar). You can retrieve a copy of the Alterra briefing information from the following secure web site:

http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/training/

Attached are the ER-2 flight reports for Tuesday, 17 July, and Thursday, 19 July.

Thanks, Paul

ER-2 Flight Report 2007-07-19

ER-2 Flight Report 2007-07-17

Dear All,

Here is the flight report for the DC-8 science flight conducted from Costa Rica on 24 July 2007.

This report also will be posted on the TC4 web site - http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/

Regards,

Kathy

DC8 Flight Report 2007-07-24

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070730 Date: 7/29/07 Time: 9:27 AM
DC-8 schedule - Monday, 30 July 2007

Access/power on 8:00a - 4:00p

ER-2 schedule - Monday, 30 July 2007

Access/power on 7:00a - 2:00p

Bus schedule - Monday, 30 July 2007

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 6:30a (e.g., 6:30a, 7:00a, 7:30a, …). The last bus of the day will leave the Melia Cariari at 5:00p.

The bus to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 7:00a (e.g., 7:00a, 7:30a, 8:00a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.

* There will be a Science Team meeting at 9:30a on Monday, 30 July. It will be held in the conference room on the second floor of the ER-2 hangar.

* The WB-57F flew its functional check flight (FCF) from Houston on Saturday, 28 July. It has been released and the investigators are in the process of integrating their instruments.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Sunday, 29 July - 2:30p
- Monday, 30 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Tuesday, 31 July - 9:00a and 2:30p

All orientation sessions conducted in Kathy Thompson’s office (Office 1, WB-57F hangar). The training takes approximately 15 minutes. The schedule for training beyond Sunday will be provided at a later date.

* Schedule for Alterra test on badging and foreign object debris (FOD):

- Wednesday, 1 August, 12:00n

The test will be given in the second-floor conference room in the Base Dos Presidential Hangar (aka the ER-2 hangar). You can retrieve a copy of the Alterra briefing information from the following secure web site:

http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/training/

The ER-2 took off this morning and a flight is in progress.

HOT OFF THE PRESS: The WB-57 had a successful 2 hour test flight yesterday.

Current plan is to reintegrate all the instruments today and tomorrow and have a 2nd checkout flight Tuesday. If that is successful then the WB-57 would head down to Costa Rica on Friday the 3rd and we could get as many as 3 very important science flights on the 5th, 6th and 8th. The transit flight back home is on the 9th and they are talking about having both planes fly back together as far as possible before splitting in different directions to go home.

– Steve