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

DC-8 Flight Plan 2007-07-29

Attached is the ER-2 flight plan for July 29.

- Steve Platnick and Paul Newman

ER-2 Flight plan 2007-07-29

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070729 Date: 7/28/07 Time: 2:16 PM
DC-8 schedule - Sunday, 29 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 - Sunday, 29 July 2007

2:00a Power on/hands on
3:00a Hands off
6:00a Take off
11:30a Land
11:50a Post-flight brief (in the ER-2 hangar conference room on the second floor, approximately 20 minutes after landing)

Bus schedule - Sunday, 29 July 2007

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 1:00a (e.g., 1:00a, 1:30a, 2:00a, …). 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 1:30a (e.g., 1:30a, 2:00a, 2:30a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.

* 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

* Pending a successful functional check flight (FCF) today, the WB-57F hopes to begin integrating the TC4 payload shortly thereafter.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Sunday, 29 July - 9:00a and 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/

Here is the draft flight plan for tomorrow (Saturday, 28 July 2007).

Paul

DC-8 Flight Plan 2007-07-28

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/

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070727 Date: 7/27/07 Time: 9:34 AM
DC-8 schedule - Friday, 27 July 2007

Power on 9:30a
Power off 3:00p

ER-2 schedule - Friday, 27 July 2007

Hands on When the ER-2 is returned to the hangar (~12:00n)
Hands off 2:00p

Bus schedule - Friday, 27 July 2007

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 6:00a (e.g., 6:00a, 6:30a, 7:00a, …). 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 6:30a (e.g., 6:30a, 7:00a, 7:30a, …). 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 Friday, 27 July. The next Science Team meeting will take place on the next no-fly day. It will be held in the conference room on the second floor

* Today’s Media Day event will take place 9:00a-11:a, and student visits will be conducted 12:00n-1:00p.

* DC-8 and ER-2 plans and schedules for Saturday, 28 July will be provided later today.

* Pending a successful flight-readiness review (FRR) today, the WB-57F hopes to fly its functional check flight (FCF) from Houston tomorrow.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Friday, 27 July - 2:30p
- Saturday, 28 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Sunday, 29 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/

Subject: TC4 schedule_20070726 Date: 7/25/07 Time: 4:50 PM
DC-8 schedule - Thursday, 26 July 2007

Hard down day - no aircraft access.

ER-2 Schedule - Thursday, 26 July 2007

Hard down day - no aircraft access.

* There will be no shuttle bus between the Melia Cariari and the TC4 operations site on Thursday. 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, Poo-wear-ta Nu-eh-veh).

* There will be no Science Team meeting on Friday, 27 July. The next Science Team meeting is scheduled for 9:30a on Sunday, 29 July. It will be held in the conference room on the second floor

* See previous message for details regarding Media Day on Friday.

* Aircraft access schedules for Friday will be provided at a later date.

* Current plans are to fly the DC-8 and ER-2 on Saturday, 28 July. Schedules will be provided at a later date.

* Orientation schedule for folks arriving in Costa Rica:

- Thursday, 26 July - 9:00a and 2:30p
- Friday, 27 July - 2:30p
- Saturday, 28 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 Saturday will be provided at a later date.

SHIS had another successful flight today with pre-flight and Engineering figures posted on the SHIS web site. Only the ER2 flew today with DC8 grounded due to a lightning strike on the flight on Tuesday. The goal of this flight was a CALIPSO/CloudSat comparison with the ER2. Due to thunderstorms in near San Jose the flight returned early, missing the CALIPSO/CloudSat overpass. The ER2 pilot reported a very thin cirrus layer, about 1 km thick, at 46,000 feet (~14 km). The Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) worked well. This will be a good case to run S-HIS cloud retrievals on thin cirrus. Unfortunately the cloud radar failed at the begining of the flight so no radar data is available. 

From Paul Newman

ER-2 Flight Plan 2007-07-25

Dear TC4 colleagues in Costa Rica,

Here is the bus schedule for tomorrow, Wednesday, 25 July 2007. It also has been posted on the TC4 web site < http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/ >.

The bus will leave the Melia Cariari every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour beginning at 3:00a (e.g., 3:00a, 3:30a, 4:00a, …). 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 3:30a (e.g., 3:30a, 4:00a, 4:30a, …). The last bus of the day to the Melia Cariari will leave the TC4 operations site at 5:30p.

Sue Tolley