Joint
Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (JAIVEx) at UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS20070426 Flight Status
From Bob Wells (FAAM BAE Flight Operations Manager)
The highlight of the day was the unexpected and very good news circulated by Peter that IASI instrument is now expected to be working again on Friday 27th.
The bad news was that the weather caused the cancellation of the proposed science flight. Further, following a lighning alert at the airfield, Directflight considered that the aircraft was at risk of damage from a storm as it passed Ellington Field and, in the absence of any request for science data, made a crew-only ‘escape’ flight of just under 3 hours.
No flying on Thursday.
From Bill Smith (WB-57 NAST-I/S-HIS Scientist):
Flight Opportunities for Next Week:
29 Apr (Sun Night): 1930 takeoff, Central Gulf underflight of MetOp at 2205 (0305 UTC). (Will not be flown if Sunday-day mission flies)
30 Apr (Mon Night): 1900 takeoff, Eastern Gulf underflight of MetOp at ~2145 (0245 UTC)
or
1 May (Tue Day: 0915 takeoff, CART-site underflight of MetOp at 1147 (1647 UTC).) (Will not be flown if Monday-night mission flies.)
2 May (Wed-Day) 1015 takeoff, CART- underflight of MetOp at 1126 (1626 UTC) and Aqua at 1452 (1952 UTC).
or
2 May (Wed-Night) 2015 takeoff, Gulf- underflight of MetOp at 2242 (0342 UTC) and Aqua at 0256 (0756 UTC) or CART-Site underflight of MetOp at 2245 (0345 UTC) (Will not be flown if Wed-day mission flies).
3 May (Thur-Day) 0845 takeoff, Gulf underflight of MetOp at 1107 (1607 UTC). (Will not be flown if Wed-night mission flies).
or
3 May (Thur-Night) 2030 takeoff, CART-site underflight of MetOp at 2224 (0324 UTC). (Will not be flown if Thur-day mission flies.)
4 May (Fri-Day) 0945 takeoff, Gulf underflight of MetOp at 1047 (1547 UTC) and Aqua at 1437 (1937UTC). (Will not be flown if Thur-night mission flies.)