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

Subject: Possible flight scenario Date: 7/22/07 Time: 11:49 AM
Dear TC4 DC-8 and ER-2 investigators,

It is likely that we will conduct back-to-back flights with both the ER-2 and the DC-8 on Tuesday and Wednesday, 24 and 25 July. Nominal take-off times are 6:00a (ER-2) and 6:30a (DC-8). The ER-2 flights would be 6 hours in duration. The DC-8 flights would be 6 hours (Tuesday) and 8 hours (Wednesday) in duration.

More details will be provided as they are available,

Kathy

DC-8 FlightPlan 2007-07-22

Attached is the preliminary ER-2 flight plan for Sunday, 22 July.

Thanks, Paul

ER-2 Flight Plan 2007-07-22

DC-8 flight plan for Saturday, 21 July 2007, from Paul Wennberg is attached.

DC-8 Flight Plan 2007-07-21

Subject: TC4 schedule update_20070719 Date: 7/19/07 Time: 6:42 AM
Dear TC4 colleagues,

Due to a maintenance issue, the DC-8 flight for today (Thursday, 19 July) was scrubbed. The next possible flight day is Saturday, 21 July.

DC-8 aircraft access for today will continue until 12:30p. The access schedule for tomorrow will be announced later today.

The ER-2 launched successfully. If all goes well with today’s flight, the next flight is planned for Saturday.

Regards,

Kathy
on behalf of Marilyn

From Paul Newman …

See attached plan. The way-points are all tentative and depend upon the development of convection tomorrow.

ER-2 Flight Plan 20070719

Enclosed is the revised flight plan for tomorrow (Tuesday, 17 July 2007).

ER-2 schedule for Tuesday, 17 July 2007:

Hands on 2:30a
Hands off 3:30a
Take off 6:30a
Landing 11:30a

ER-2 Flight Plan 20070717v2

A message from Paul Newman (Paul.A.Newman@nasa.gov) and Steve Platnick (steven.e.platnick@nasa.gov) …

See attached flight description. Takeoff is scheduled for 9:20 AM PDT (12:20 EDT, 1620Z).

- Steve and Paul

ER-2 Flight Plan, July 9 Test Flight