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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NAWDEX daily campaign schedule¶

[last change: 06 Oct, 2016, 15:40 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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Friday, Oct 07, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

11:55 --- Power on the aircraft
14:55 --- Aushallen
15:25 --- Take-Off (approx. Flight time 03:30h)
19:00 --- Landing

Scientific Flight Crew: B. Witschas, O. Lux

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate

11:40 D. Woudsma, B. Witschas, O. Lux, E. Nagel
14:25 R. Welser, S. Grillenbeck, M. Zöger

• DLR HALO

09:45 --- Power on the aircraft
12:00 --- Pushing HALO out of the Hangar
12:00 --- Pre-Flight Briefing in the Hangar
13:05 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 5:30)
18:35 --- Landing

Scientific Flight Crew: Mission-PI ?, F. Ewald, D. Hellmann, M. Gutleben, T. Koelling, M. Klingebiel

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate

09:30 C. Grad, K. Witte, L. Hirsch, H. Konow, M. Jacob, M. Wirth, D. Ene
11:05 T. Koelling, L. Höppler
11:45 F. Ewald, D. Hellmann, M. Gutleben, M. Klingebiel, S. Gemsa, M. Grossrubatscher, T. Leder

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Thursday, Oct 06, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

no flight
No scientific work going on at the aircraft, just standard maintentance from DLR´s side.

• DLR HALO

03:30 --- Power on the aircraft
05:45 --- Pushing HALO out of the hangar, performing the aircraft test
06:00 --- Pre-Flight Briefing in the hangar
07:00 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 8:30)
15:30 --- Landing

Scientific Flight Crew: M. Bramberger (PI), S. Groß, H. Konow, M. Jacob, M. Gutleben, K. Wolf

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Golden Gate

02:45 C. Grad, K. Witte, M. Klingebiel, D. Hellmann, L. Hirsch, M. Wirth, D. Ene
04:30 T. Koelling, L. Höppler
05:00 R. Welser, S. Gemsa, T. Leder, C. Mallaun, S. Hempe, S. Storhas
05:30 M. Bramberger, S. Groß, H. Konow, J. Jacob, M. Gutleben, K. Wolf, T. Carlsen

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Wednesday, Oct 05, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

Day-Off today

• DLR HALO

Technical problem is solved. Test inside the Hangar was successful.
Test outside on the Apron is officially required before the next flight.
No flight today.

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Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

2 Flights planned for Tuesday

05:00 --- Power on the aircraft
07:00 --- Pulling the aircraft out of Hangar, Fueling
08:00 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 3:30h)
11:30 --- Landing

12:00 --- Fueling
13:10 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 2:30h)
15:40 --- Landing

Flight Crew: Philipp Weber, Stefan Grillenbeck, David Woudsma, Benjamin Witschas, Oliver Lux

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Golden Gate

04:30 (Engelbert, Oliver, Olli, Benny, David); Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Olli

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate

07:00 (Stefan Grillenbeck, Philipp Weber); Gate -> Hangar: Katrin/Stefan

• DLR HALO

Due to a technical problem with the aircraft, today´s flight had to be cancelled.
There will definitely be no HALO flight today.
We had to order a spare part and hope to get it to Keflavik tomorrow.

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Monday, Oct 03, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

no flight

09:00 - 16:00 --- Power on the aircraft

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate

08:30 (Engelbert, Oliver, Olli, Benny, Stephan, David); Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Olli

• DLR HALO

tbd (due to repair)

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Monday, Oct 03, 2016¶

Aircraft schedule:

• DLR Falcon

no flight

09:00 - 16:00 --- Power on the aircraft

Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate

08:30 (Engelbert, Oliver, Olli, Benny, Stephan, David); Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Olli

• DLR HALO

tbd (due to repair)

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Responsibilities¶

Position	Name	Contact (Email)	mobile phone
HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:	X	X	X
Scientific Manager:	John Methven	j.methven[at]reading.ac.uk	X
Technical Manager:	X	X	X
Chief Forecaster:	Bas Crezee	sebastiaan.crezee[at]env.ethz.ch	X
Instrument Manager:	Manuel Gutleben	manuel.gutleben[at]dlr.de	X
Coordinator Ground-Based Observations:	Jacob Maddison	j.maddison[at]pgr.reading.ac.uk
Mission Scientist (D-CMET)	Benjamin Witschas	benjamin.witschas[at]dlr.de	+354 8668270
Mission Scientist (D-ADLR)	Martina Bramberger	martina.bramberger[at]dlr.de	X
Mission Scientist (ground)	Julian Quinting	julian.quinting[at]monash.edu	X
DLR-FX Operations	Stefan Hempe	stefan.hempe[at]dlr.de	+49 172 20 00 688
DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik	Katrin Witte	katrin.witte[at]dlr.de	+49 172 741 3066

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

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Instrument and Aircraft Status Matrix (from 5 Okt 2016, 09:00 UTC)¶

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