EPIC Daily Operations Summary

Date of report(UTC): 2001/09/12 14:49
Author of report: Gus Emmanuel
Submitted at: 20010912:15:09
The C-130 plans a 2-hour flight for early afternoon[2pm local] to test the ocean probe chute on the aircraft. Note: The expendibles did arrive late yesterday afternoon and are currently stored at the Huatulco airport. A two aircraft ITCZ mission is planned for tomorrow, Thursday. The Huatulco airport is under a heightened security operations mode; both aircraft are under 24-hr armed guard suveillance..

MISSION PLANS:

PRIMARY MISSION:


SECONDARY MISSION:


TAKE OFF / LANDING TIMES:
 Plane Take-off Times(UTC) Landing Times(UTC)
NSF C-130   2000   2200
NOAA P-3    

Pre-flight briefing times(UTC):
Update times(UTC):

AIRBORNE MISSION SCIENTIST NAMES:
NSF C-130 : Nick Bond
NOAA P-3 :


SHIP OPERATIONS:
Daily[for 11 September] report received from the Ron Brown

OTHER SPECIAL OPERATIONS:
San Cristobal team launching 0000UTC radiosondes daily
No GTS transmission at this time