No flight day/instrument access day
0700 Hangar/Lab access and Sierra Nevada fly-by
0800-1600 ER-2 support
No FFP meeting Tuesday
Looking ahead
08-05-21 Prof Flight Opportunity 0700 hands on; 1500 end crew day (tentative)
08-06-21 Science Flight Opportunity
Flight Day RF06
0330 Forecasting meeting
0500 Hands on
0600 Pre-flight brief
0700 Hands off
0900 Take off
1230 Salina balloon launch
1600 Landing (approximate)
1800 Crew duty day ends
Looking Ahead
08-05-21 Prof Flight Opportunity 0700 hands on; 1500 end crew day (tentative)
08-06-21 Science Flight Opportunity
No flight day/instrument access day
0700 Hangar/Lab access
0800-1600 ER-2 support
0800-0830 FFP meeting
0930-1000 All-hands brief
Looking ahead
08-02-21 Flight Day Opportunity 0900 takeoff
08-05-21 Prof Flight Opportunity 0700 hands on; 1500 end crew day (tentative)
ER-2 Hard Down Day
0900 – Hangar open, but we encourage scientists to take advantage of the down day. No ER-2 support.
0900 – Forecasting & Flight Planning Brief
08-01-21 Instrument Access Day/ER-2 Support
Looking ahead (tentative)
08-02-21 Flight Day Opportunity
08-05-21 Prof Flight Opportunity 0700 hands on; 1500 end crew day
No flight day/instrument access day
0730 Hangar/Lab access
0800-1600 ER-2 support
1000 Science team meeting
Looking ahead
08-02-21 Next flight opportunity (Monday). This would require a hard down day Saturday.
Note
We are wearing masks indoors now, regardless of vaccination status.
Flight Day RF05
Morning schedule:
0200 Hands on
0300 Pre-flight brief
0400 Hands off
0600 Take off
1300 Landing (approximate)
See Dan’s Slack post about CDC guidance in the 2021-deployments channel.
Looking Ahead
07-30-21 Instrument access day. Dan departs for California.
1000 Science Team Meeting
No flight day/instrument access day
0700 Hangar/Lab Access
0800-1600 ER-2 Support
0800-0830 FFP meeting
0900 Go/No-go for flight the next day
0930-1000 All-hands brief (provided there will be a flight the next day)
Looking ahead
07-29-21 Next flight opportunity
No flight day/instrument access day
0700 Hangar/Lab Access
0800 – 1600 ER-2 Support
1000 Media Day activities in the hangar
1300 FFP meeting
Looking ahead
07-29-21 Next flight opportunity
Flight Day RF04
Instrument upload schedule:
0500
Hands on, UCATS, HAL, HUPCRS
0530
AWAS
0600
HWV
0700
Wi-ICOS
0800
PALMS, DPOPS
0900
Hands off, A/C prep
1100
Takeoff, for a ~5h flight
Looking ahead
7-27-21 Media Day, virtual
No ER-2 Support / Instrument access day
0800
Hangar Open
0800 – 0830
FFP meeting
0930 – 1000
All hands brief (see updated calendar invite)
Looking ahead
7-26-21 Flight Day Opportunity
