NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. NAWDEX 2016 Campaign (HALO & Falcon)

This is the official blog for the NAWDEX campaign, a webpage that can be edited by all NAWDEX team members that are registered. The aim is to inform all NAWDEX participants and interested colleagues about the campaign and to share the planning material. If you need information about the international NAWDEX Project please refer to http://nawdex.org/ and for the HALO/Falcon Project please refer to http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/nawdex/

In case you should have any questions please contact: *andreas.schaefler[at]dlr.de*

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h2. NAWDEX daily campaign schedule 

_[last change: 27 Sep, 2016, 08:15 UT]_

If not stated otherwise, all timings given below after September 18 are referring to UT, which is LT in Iceland.

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h3. Thursday, Sept 29, 2016

*Aircraft schedule:*

* *DLR Falcon*

>  DAY - OFF

>

* *DLR HALO* 

>

>09:00 until ~11:00 --- Power on the aircraft 

>

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

>

>%{color:red} **08:30** (SMART, FX);  Gate -> Hangar: Andreas%

>            

>

h3. Wednesday, Sept 28, 2016

*Aircraft schedule:*

* *DLR Falcon*

>11:00 --- *Take-Off* (approx. flight time: 3:30 h)

>14:30 --- ETA Keflavik

>14:45 --- Power on the aircraft in the hangar 

>

>_Flight crew:_

>_Philipp Weber, Stefan Grillenbeck, David Woudsma, Oliver Lux, Christian Lemmerz_

>

>"Falcon flight plan":https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/attachments/download/216/NAWDEX%20160928%20MAP%20DCMET_update.pdf

* *DLR HALO* 

>

> DAY - OFF

>

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

>

>%{color:red} **06:30** (Falcon scientists, David);  Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert

>             **07:30** (Falcon pilots, ??);  Gate -> Hangar: Frank% 

>

h3. Tuesday, Sept 27, 2016

*Aircraft schedule:*

* *DLR Falcon*

>06:45 --- Power on the aircraft (in the hangar)

>08:30 --- *Pre-flight briefing in the hangar (go/no-go decision Falcon)*

>08:45 --- Power off

>08:50 --- Leave hangar / APU power 

>09:20 --- *Take-Off* (approx. flight time: 3:30 h)

>12:50 --- ETA Keflavik

>12:55 --- refueling

>13:30 --- Power on the aircraft in the hangar 

>

>_Flight crew:_

>_Philipp Weber, Stefan Grillenbeck, David Woudsma, Oliver Reitebuch, Christian Lemmerz_

>

>"Falcon flight plan NEW":https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/attachments/download/204/NAWDEX%20160927%20MAP%20DCMET_new.pdf

* *DLR HALO* 

>08:30 --- Power on the aircraft

>10:10 --- *Pre-flight briefing in the hangar (go/no-go decision HALO)*

>10:25 --- Power off

>10:30 --- Leave hangar / APU power

>11:30 --- *Take-Off* (approx. flight time: 9:15 h)

>20:45 --- ETA Keflavik (then 10 min APU power on the apron)

>21:05 --- De-briefing in the hangar

>

>_Flight crew:_

>_Roland Welser, Matthias Wiese, Tommy Leder, Hanin Binder(mission scientist onboard), Andreas Fix, Manfred Wendisch, Martin Hagen, Lucas Höppler, Christian Grams_

>

>"HALO flight plan":https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/attachments/download/201/NAWDEX%20D-ADLR%20-%20Map%20ATC%2027-09-2016_final.pdf

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

>

>%{color:red} **06:30** (Falcon scientists, David);  Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert

>             **08:00** (Falcon pilots, Andreas M., Frank, first HALO team);  Gate -> Hangar: Frank, Andreas

>             **09:15** (HALO Crew,...);   Gate -> Hangar: Frank or Andreas

>             **09:45**  Gate -> Hangar: Frank or Andreas% 

h3. Monday, Sept 26, 2016

*Aircraft schedule:*

* *DLR Falcon*

> no flight

> 09:30 - 16:00 power on the aircraft

* *DLR HALO* 

>07:00 --- Power on the aircraft

>08:40 --- *Pre-flight briefing in the hangar (go/no-go decision HALO)*

>08:55 --- Power off

>09:00 --- Leave hangar / APU power

>10:00 --- *Take-Off* (approx. flight time: 9:15 h)

>19:15 --- ETA Keflavik (then 10 min APU power on the apron)

>19:35 --- De-briefing in the hangar

>

>_Flight crew:_

>_Roland Welser, Matthias Wiese, Tommy Leder, George Craig (mission scientist onboard), Axel Amediek, Manuel Gutleben, Kevin Wolf, Lisa Dirks, Mario Mech_

>

>"HALO flight plan":https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/attachments/download/163/NAWDEX%20D-ADLR%20-%20Map%20ATC%2026-09-2016.pdf

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

>

>%{color:red} **06:30** 

>             **07:30** 

>             **08:15** (Crew,...)

>             **09:15** (Falcon-Lidar,...)% 

h3. Sunday, Sept 25, 2016

*Aircraft schedule:*

* *DLR Falcon*

>10:30 --- fueling

>11:15 --- check flight (no instrument operation)

>12:15 --- fueling 

>Power on the aircraft: not requested 

* *DLR HALO* 

>11:00 --- fueling

>12:30 to ~16:00 Power on the aircraft (request by SMART and specMACS)

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

>

>%{color:red} **09:15** (David)

>             **09:45** (FX)

>             **12:15** (Falcon-Lidar, SMART)% 

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h2. Responsibilities

| *Position* | *Name* | *Contact (Email*) | *mobile phone* |

| HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:|  X | X | X |

| Scientific Manager: | Jim Doyle |  James.Doyle[at]nrlmry.navy.mil | X |

| Technical Manager: | X |  X | X |

| Chief Forecaster: | Julian Quinting |  julian.quinting[at]monash.edu | X |

| Instrument Manager: | Manuel Gutleben |  manuel.gutleben[at]dlr.de | X |

| Coordinator Ground-Based Observations: | Leo Saffin |  l.saffin[at]pgr.reading.ac.uk | X |

| Mission Scientist (D-CMET) 27. Sep| Oliver Reitebuch| oliver.reitebuch[at]dlr.de | +354 8667413 |

| Mission Scientist (D-ADLR) 27. Sep| Hanin Binder | hanin.binder[at]env.ethz.ch | X |

| Mission Scientist (ground) 27. Sep| A. Schäfler / C. Keil | andreas.schaefler[at]dlr.de | X |

| DLR-FX Operations | Frank Probst | frank.probst[at]dlr.de | +49 152 015 22 498 |

| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (until Sep 30) | Andreas Minikin | andreas.minikin[at]dlr.de | +49 174 951 1618 |

| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (from Sep 30) | Katrin Witte | katrin.witte[at]dlr.de | +49 172 741 3066 |

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h2. Planning Summary Matrix (from 19 Sep 2016, 23:25 UTC)

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h2. Instrument Status Matrix (from 27 Sep 2016, 09:00 UTC)

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h2. Observation Coordination Matrix( from XX Sep 2016, XX:XX UTC)

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