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Project flight schedule
Monday 21 Nov – Friday 23 Dec
5 weeks – 150 flight hours
Closed Thursday 24 Nov – Sunday 27 Nov
Normal open hours, Monday - Friday:
6 AM – 7 PM
Flight days
8 AM – 4 PM
Maintenance days
Exceptions TBD
3 – 4 Flight days per week (mostly 10 hours)
Focus on more flights early (weather, maintenance)
Remove some instruments before project end (DU, NOAA O3)
Combine objectives to 10-hour flights
Daily flight schedule (Monday-Friday, mountain time)
6:00
Aircraft out, refuel, warm instruments
7:15
All onboard
7:45
Doors close
8:00
Take-off
18:00
Touch-down
18:15
De-brief
19:00
RAF closes down
Changes are possible; e.g. DU-Kent State, MMM-UCLA
objectives
Normal RAF crew duty limits apply (CHECK)
Daily planning schedule (Sunday-Friday)
6:30
Pilot briefing
13:00
Weather forecast (Chris Davis etc.)
Instrument status (all PIs' ground crew)
Flight planning
15:00
Message left on answering machine
Phone 303-497-1040
18:15
De-brief + next day mission update
Daily maintenance schedule (Monday-Friday)
assuming 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM flight
6:00
7:00
18:00
19:00
Access to aircraft equipment
- mechanics for paper work
Equipment must be re-installed
and paperwork completed
- mechanics for paperwork
Access to aircraft equipment
- mechanics for paper work
Facility closes
Daily maintenance schedule (Monday-Friday)
assuming no flight
8:00
Access to aircraft equipment
16:00
Facility closes
Some flexibility
Notes: with 1-2 no-flight days per week, we have limited
maintenance time.
With 3-4 flights per week, we may need to fly even if some
instruments are 'broken'; - change objectives.
Move rake and inlet once per week on maint. day
Flight areas:
DOCIMS
New Particle
Sr-Cu over Pacific
SW, NW over Pacific
N over Canada
START
N over US and Canada
NW over Pacific
CHAPS
Plains, mountains, en-route
Static Defect
Anywhere
Dropsondes
Testing a few over land
Serial sondes over water
No sondes over Canada
Payload:
Pressure, temperature, dewpoint (lower atmosphere)
Winds (3-10 Hz max., not anti-iced)
Humidity (Campos/Maycom TDL)
Ozone (Gao/NOAA)
CO, CO2 (Campos)
CN, RDMA (Rogers)
Aerosol particles, NMASS, FCAS (Lee, Wilson, LaF.)
Dropsonde (Lauritsen)
Differential GPS (Beaton, Romashkin, Jensen)
Rake + pitotstatic (Friehe, Rogers, Stith)
HIMIL air intakes (Fox, Rogers)
Trailing cone (Jensen, Friesen, Schanot, - Jan 06)
Who can fly:
Must be directly project operations related
Equipment operator, flight scientist,
teaching if directly project related (Jeff)
Who can fly: 11 seats:
2 pilots
1 RAF tech
1 EOL data system programmer
1 dropsonde operator
1 RAF trace gas operator
1 RAF aerosol operator
1 DU aerosol operator
2 Mission scientists (1 CHAPS, 1 non-RAF)
1 more (instrument training, etc.)
Later we may free up programmer seat
Flight decisions:
Group decision by PIs and delegates at 1 PM planning
meeting
Project manager to function as 'circuit breaker' in case of
disagreements
Project manager to keep track of time used by each
project
Project managers: Jensen, Schanot and Romashkin
303-497-1028, -1063 and -1027
Data handling
Real-time data feed:
Every 5 seconds, data transferred to ground
(1 Hz data)
Inside UCAR firewall use “aeros”
Outside UCAR firewall use web browser
(www.eol.ucar.edu/raf/)
database
Data handling
Chat:
Any client (e.g. xchat)
Sign EOL agreement
Server for EOL/RDCC: rdcc.guest.ucar.edu/6668
Use SSL
Accept invalid SSL certificate
Chat channel: &G5
Nick-name: FirstnameLastname-location
e.g. RonRuth-JeffCo
Use /nick to change your name
Data handling – FTP:
FTP fownload site: ftp.atd.ucar.edu
Directory: /pub/archive/RAF-projects/ProgSci
Naming convention for all files you provide:
PS_20051206_0600_instrument.ext
PS_yyyymmdd_hhmm_instrument.ext
Subdirectories for specific purposes:
data: prelimenary netCDF files from prior flights
images: data/image to push to G5 during flights
reports: self-evident
Please provide upload plans and data formats
Data handling – FTP:
Web browsing from aircraft:
Open browser
Home page shows uploaded data
Organization:
Door access cards – add your name
One card per group (unless special need)
Email and phone list – add your details
Safety briefing – read carefully and sign form
Photo release – sign form, list permit or no permit
Computer usage form - sign