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PEM Tropics-B Deployment Schedule

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Flight Schedule for P-3B and DC-8 During PEM-Tropics B
Day Date P3-B Flt  Hrs Allocated Flt Hrs Used   DC-8 Flt  Hrs Allocated  Flt  Hrs Used
EDL WDL
  11-Jan   Start integration            
  19-Jan           Start integration    
  18-Feb           Engineering Check Flight 2.0 2.1
  19-Feb           Test Flt #1 4.0 4.0
  22-Feb           Dryden     
  23-Feb           Dryden      
  24-Feb           Test Flight #2 4.0  4.3
1 25-Feb           Dryden    
2 26-Feb           Dryden    
3 27-Feb  
      Dryden     
4 28-Feb           Dryden     
5 1-Mar   Functional Check Flight (No PIs) &
Engineering Check Flight (No PIs)
2      Dryden    
6 2-Mar   Pilot Proficiency Flight (No PI's) in A.M.
Power Up on Aircraft Power in P.M.		       Dryden     
7 3-Mar   Mandatory Safety Briefing in A.M.
Test Flt #1 late afternoon		 4      Test Flight #3 6.0 5.8
8 4-Mar           Dryden Pack    
9 5-Mar           Dryden Pack C-141    
10 6-Mar           Transit: Dryden to Hilo/Lat Profile 7  7.2
11 7-Mar   Test Flt #2 6      Hilo, Hawaii    
12 8-Mar   Wallops Pack
      Hilo, Hawaii    
13 9-Mar   Wallops Pack/Cargo Aircraft
      Hilo Local 1 Sunrise 10 8.6 
14 10-Mar   Transit: WFF to Dryden
7     Down Day    
15 11-Mar   Transit: Dryden to Hilo, Hawaii
7     Hilo, Hawaii    
16 12-Mar   Hilo, Hawaii
      Hilo, Hawaii    
17 13-Mar   Transit: Hawaii to Christmas Island 8     Hilo Local 2  ITCZ 8  9.3 
18 14-Mar   Christmas Island       Hilo, Hawaii    
19 15-Mar   Christmas Island Local 1:
Sulfur Survey (Tentative)		 8     Hilo Local 3 Equator, Photochem. 10  9.8 
20 16-Mar   Christmas Island       Hilo Pack     
21 17-Mar 18-Mar Christmas Island Local 2:
Split flight (Tentative)		  10     Transit: Hilo to Fiji ITCZ Ozone Trough 10  10.2 
22 18-Mar 19-Mar Christmas Island        Down Day    
23 19-Mar 20-Mar Christmas Island Local 3: 
Sunrise MBL (Tentative)		 10     Fiji    
24 20-Mar 21-Mar Christmas Island       Fiji Local 1/SPCZ 8 7.9 
25 21-Mar 22-Mar Christmas Island Local 4:
 Sunset MBL (Tentative)		 8     Fiji    
26 22-Mar 23-Mar Christmas Island       Fiji Local 2 Ozone Trough 10  10.4 
27 23-Mar 24-Mar Christmas Island Local 5:
 BuL/Free Troposphere (Tentative)		 8     Fiji    
28 24-Mar 25-Mar Christmas Island Pack       Fiji Local 3 Trough 8 8.3
29 25-Mar 26-Mar Christmas Island Pack       Fiji Pack    
30 26-Mar 27-Mar Transit: Christmas Island to Tahiti 8     Transit: Fiji to Tahiti 8 8.4 
31 27-Mar   Tahiti       Tahiti    
32 28-Mar   Down Day       Down Day    
33 29-Mar   Tahiti       Tahiti    
34 30-Mar   Tahiti Local 1/Sulfur Pool 9     Tahiti Local 1  
Equatorial Photochem		 8 8.1 
35 31-Mar   Tahiti       Tahiti    
36 1-Apr   Tahiti        Tahiti     
37 2-Apr   Tahiti Local 2/SPCZ 8     Tahiti Local 2/SPCZ 8 7.9 
38 3-Apr   Tahiti       Tahiti    
39 4-Apr   Tahiti Local 3  
Subsidence		   8      Tahiti Local 3  
Subsidence/Sunrise		  8  8.3
40 5-Apr   Tahiti       Tahiti    
41 6-Apr   Tahiti       Tahiti    
42 7-Apr   Tahiti Local 4  8     Tahiti Local 4  
Subsidence/Sunset		 8 8.2 
43 8-Apr   Tahiti Pack       Down Day (Tentative)    
44 9-Apr   Transit: Tahiti to Hawaii  8      Tahiti    
45 10-Apr   Transit: Hawaii to Dryden  7     Tahiti Local 5  
Lat  Profile (S)		 8  8.0
46 11-Apr   Transit to Wallops  7     Tahiti Pack    
47 12-Apr   Off Load       Tahiti Pack    
48 13-Apr   Off Load       Transit: Tahiti to Easter Island 9  8.3
49 14-Apr           Easter Island    
50 15-Apr           Easter Island Local 9 9.4 
51 16-Apr           Easter Island    
52 17-Apr   Off Load       Transit: Easter Island to Costa Rica  9 8.7 
53 18-Apr           Transit: Costa Rica to Dryden 7 6.3 
54 19-Apr           Off Load    
55 20-Apr           Off Load    
     Total Flight Hours 141       169 169.5
    Difference between allocated and used           0.5


 

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