TC4 schedule_20070728
Subject: TC4 schedule_20070728 Date: 7/27/07 Time: 1:26 PM
DC-8 schedule - Saturday, 28 July 2007
4:30a Power on
5:00a Pre-flight brief (in the ‘clamshell’ hangar)
6:00a Doors close
6:45a Take off
1:00p Land
1:20p Post-flight brief (in the ‘clamshell’ hangar 20 minutes after landing)
2:00p Power off
Next possible DC-8 flight day - Sunday, 29 July (coordinated with ER-2). Estimated take-off time 6:30a. Details TBD.
ER-2 schedule - Saturday, 28 July 2007 - No-fly day
7:00a Hands on
2:00p Hands off
Next possible ER-2 flight day - Sunday, 29 July (coordinated with DC-8). Details TBD.
Bus schedule - Saturday, 28 July 2007
The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 3:30a (e.g., 3:30a, 4:00a, 4:30a, …). 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 4:00a (e.g., 4:00a, 4:30a, 5:00a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.
* There will be no Science Team meeting on Saturday, 28 July. The next Science Team meeting will take place on the next no-fly day (tentatively Monday, 30 July). 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:
- Saturday, 28 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Sunday, 29 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Monday, 30 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):
- Saturday, 28 July, 3:00p
- 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/

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