Daily Schedule

FireSense Boise Campaign Plan of the Day: Thursday, 30 July 2026

Announcements:

Thursday: 

  -Transit to Lake Tahoe (Big Grass, Chimney, Biscar, Elephant fires) for C-FIRST and PIRS

  -Power plants and other static sources for calibration (Gas - 39.5625, -119.5250, 39.5603, -119.5108

Geothermal - 39.3700, -119.7669)

Friday fires in order of priority: 1. Bald Mtn, 2. Fox fire, 3. Silvertip

All times are local (Mountain Time)

Meetings:

0830 Preflight meeting (MANDATORY FOR ALL FLIERS) in FBO lobby Conference Room

1300 Flight Planning Meeting (Webex)

1500 PostFlight Brief (Webex)

B-200 N529NA PIRS

Calibration flights over Lake Tahoe buoys plus bonus targets over fires

0430 Begin PreFlight Instrument Prep 

0830 Preflight meeting (see above)

0930 Doors Close

1000 Takeoff

1400 Land

G-III N520NA  C-FIRST

Calibration flights over Lake Tahoe buoys plus bonus targets over fires

0715 Begin PreFlight Instrument Prep

0830 Preflight meeting (see above)

1010 Doors Close

1030 Takeoff

1400 Land

ESPO on site: Roy Johnson (650.623.7539)

FireSense Aircraft

DA B200 N53W AVIRIS

0930 Initiate Kirtland Air Force Base survey 

DA A-90 N94S G-LiHT

0700-0730 Initiate Kirtland Air Force Base survey 

FireSense Boise Campaign Plan of the Day: Wednesday, 29 July 2026

All times are local (Mountain Time)

Meetings:

1300 Flight Planning Meeting (Webex)

B-200 N529NA PIRS

Down Day

0800 Data download 

0900 July 30th flight plans complete for FAA notification

G-III N520NA  C-FIRST

Down Day

0900 July 30th flight plans complete for FAA notification

0930 Egress training 

1200 Crew badging

ESPO on site: Jaden Ta and Roy Johnson 

FireSense Aircraft

DA B200 N53W AVIRIS

Transport to Albuquerque

DA A-90 N94S G-LiGHT

0700-0730 Initiate Kirtland Air Force Base survey 

FireSense Boise Campaign Plan of the Day: Tuesday, 28 July 2026
 

Announcements:

-See attached highlight for PIRS

-Reminder: If you need to go to the aircraft, you need to escorted by Jen, Dan, or myself 
 

All times are local (Mountain Daylight Time)
 

Meetings:

1000 INSPYRE brief 

1100 NICC daily brief

1300 Flight planning meeting (Webex)

1800 Postflight brief
 

B-200 N529NA PIRS

0630 Instrument preflight begins 

1030 Preflight brief 

~1130 Take off (time based on NWS balloon launch time)

~1330 Landing (approx. 2 hours after takeoff)
 

G-III N520NA C-FIRST

Transit to Boise 

 

ESPO on site: Jaden Ta

FireSense Boise Campaign Plan of the Day: Monday, 27 July 2026

Announcements:

-This is the folder that contains flight plans and updates: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OhnrztMdsigw-zRo9T22784UEm2t2l-v 
 

All times are local (Mountain Time)

Meetings: 

1000 INSYPRE Brief (Element Conference Room: Tamarack Room Level 5)

1300 Flight Planning Meeting (FireSense Webex link)

1800 Preflight brief for Tuesday (FireSenseWebex link)

B-200 N529NA PIRS

Transit to Boise (for tracking: https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/tracker/ and https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N520NA)

G-III N520NA C-FIRST

Test flight at LaRC

ESPO on site: Jaden Ta