NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Flight Day

0500 Instruments Hands On
0500 Forecasting and Flight Planing Briefing
0600 Preflight Brief
0700 Instruments Hands Off
0900 Take Off
1600 Landing
~1700. Debrief (exact time TBD)

Looking ahead

7-21-21 Instrument Access Day
0800 - 1600 ER-2 Support & Hangar access
0800 - 0830 Forecasting & Flight Planning meeting
0930 - 1000 All Hands briefing

7-22-21 Flight Day opportunity

Instrument Access Day

0700 - Lab/Hangar access
0800 - 1600 ER-2 Support
0830 - 0900 Forecasting & Flight Planning
0930 - 1000 All-hands briefing

Hard Down Day (No ER-2 support)
0900 - Hangar access

Looking ahead
7-19-21 Instrument Access Day
0800 - 1600 ER-2 Support & Hangar access
0800 - 0830 Forecasting & Flight Planning meeting
0930 - 1000 All Hands briefing

7-20-21 Flight Day opportunity

Instrument Access Date

0800 - 1600 ER-2 Support
0900 - Forecasting & Flight Planning Brief

Looking ahead (tentative)

7-18-21 ER2 Hard Down Day
0800 - Hangar access / No ER-2 support

7-19-21 Flight Day

Updates:
Today we concluded the first science flight out of Salina. After more than a year delay due to COVID-19 pandemic this felt as a very special day.

0500 – Hands-On
0500 – Forecasting & Flight Planning Meeting
0600 – Preflight Brief
0700 – Hands Off
0900 – Takeoff
1700 – Landing
1900 – ER-2 crew duty day ends

Looking ahead (tentative)

7-17-21 Instrument Access Day

0700 – Hangar Open
0800 – 1600 ER-2 Support

7-18-21 Hard Down Day

0700 – Hangar access / No ER-2 support

Updates – ER-2 and the instruments are preparing for the next day science flight

Instrument access day

0700 Hangar / Lab open
0700 - 1500 ER-2 crew support
0800 FFP pre-brief
0900 FFP briefing

Looking ahead
7-16-21 – Flight Day (times are subject to change)
0500 - Hands on
0900 - Takeoff

7-17-21 – Instrument access day
0700 - 1500 ER-2 crew support

Instrument access day

0700 - Lab Open
0700 - 1500 ER-2 Support
0700 - 0900 FFP meeting (online and in the flight ops room)
1300 - Preflight-day brief, in-person, in the lab (ground floor). One representative / instrument.

Looking ahead

7-15-21 -- Potential Flight Day (exact times and goals are TBD)
0330 - Open hangar
0400 - Instruments preflight
0600 - Instruments hands-off, ER-2 preflight prep
0800 - Takeoff for an 8h flight

7-16-21 -- Instrument access day

No flight day
0700 – Hangar open
0700 – 1500 ER-2 Crew available
Tomorrow instrument workday.

0800 Hangar 606 access
1000 ER-2 crew show up
1000 Ramp driving orientation
1200 ER-2 Take Off, transit to Salina
~1500 ER-2 Salina landing

ER-2 -- Hard down day.
0800 -- 1600 hangar access
Updates:
We were hard at work preparing the Salina site for this deployment.
Tomorrow, we expect the science equipment track to arrive and we are looking forward to the arrival of more team members.