KORUS-AQ

Tuesday, MAY 10th:
NO FLY DAY - AFRC DC-8
             Aircraft open 0800-1600
No Fly Day - LaRC UC12_B
No Fly Day expected - HU King Air

Flight Planning Meeting: 0800 - 1000
Science Team Meeting: 1615-1715 
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Wednesday, May 11th
Best Probable fly day - TBD

NOTE 1:
New arrivals – Please let ESPO know you are coming. Contact us at osan@espo.nasa.gov
We will meet you in the morning at 0745 in the Turumi Lodge Lobby.  From there you will be taken to the Pass and ID office for badging.

NOTE 2:
ESPO is collecting for KORUS T-Shirts.  $15.00 ea.  
Check your name on the list (Located on the counter next to the flight planning office) and pre-pay (CASH) by tomorrow at the science team meeting.  If you want one and are not here have a team member work out the payment for you.  NO Credit please.  
Note 3:
Osan is continuing the military exercise for the remainder of the week.  
Note 4:
For those who need egress training, we can take care of it tomorrow after the planning meeting.
NOTE 5: Kids visit tomorrow
~32 7th and 8th grade students from Osan Middle School and their teachers will be visiting the hangar tomorrow at 10:30AM.
We plan to split them into two groups of 16.  
We will take half through the DC-8 for about 30 minutes and the other half out to see the B-200's and then switch them.If you would like to talk about your instruments while the kids are on the DC-8, they will be onboard from ~10:30-11:45AM.

School presentation - Volunteers
Sounds like this was a great success!!  Thank you to the Volunteers!!!
More school events to come…..you still have a chance to stay involved  - Contact  Emily Schaller,  e.schaller@nserc.und.edu

X_Chat:  Volunteer for conversations with the school kids on X_CHAT  during flight  interacting with classrooms at Osan and around the world! Please contact Emily for the details.

Plan of the day – looking a few days ahead and general announcements…

MONDAY, MAY 9th:
NO FLY DAY - AFRC DC-8  (Weather issues)
No Fly Day - LaRC UC12_B
No Fly Day - HU King Air
Flight Planning Meeting: 0800 - 1000
Science Team Meeting: 1615-1715 
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Tuesday, May 10th:
Possible Flight Day – TBD 
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Wednesday, May 11th
Best Probable fly day - TBD

NOTE:
OSAN AB will have an ongoing military exercise May 9 – May  14.   You may be delayed getting to Building 1187. Plan accordingly.  NASA personnel are NOT a part of the exercise and should plan to carry on - business as usual.  Be sure to carry your ESPO supplied NASA-KORUS badge to present it to anyone who may asks why you are not complying with the exercise.

School presentation - Volunteers
Please email Emily Schaller (e.schaller@nserc.und.edu) if you would like to volunteer or have questions.
Here is all the information about the school visits.
***KORUS-AQ School Visits Osan Middle School on Monday at 10AM & 12:15PM***
Planning meeting Sunday at 8PM in Turumi Lodge Lobby
X_Chat:
Volunteer for conversations with the school kids on X_CHAT  during flight  interacting with classrooms at Osan and around the world! Please contact Emily for the details.

SUNDAY, MAY 8th:
HARD-DOWN DAY (No Aircraft access) AFRC DC-8
No Fly Day - LaRC UC12_B
No Fly Day - HU King Air
Flight Planning Meeting: 0800 - 1000
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Monday, May 9th:
NO FLY Day for all aircraft
Flight Planning Meeting: 0800 - 1000
Science Team meeting: 1615-1715

Reminder to Mission Mangers and Aircraft Science  – Upload Aircraft/Science flight reports onto the KORUS web site promptly after each flight.

NOTE:
OSAN AB will have an ongoing military exercise May 9 – May  14.  There is a possibly you may see people in HAZMAT suites carrying weapons and firing blanks.  NASA personnel are NOT a part of the exercise and to carry on as business as usual.  Carry your ESPO supplied NASA-KORUS badge to present it to anyone who may asks why you are not complying with the exercise.

Thank you to those who have already done so but if you have not… :
VOLUNTEERS!! VOLUNTEERS!We are looking for a few good volunteers to present your work and the KORUS-AQ mission at the schools on base. Please email Emily Schaller (e.schaller@nserc.und.edu) if you would like to volunteer or have questions.
Here is all the information about the school visits.
***KORUS-AQ School Visits Osan Middle School on Monday at 10AM & 12:15PM***
Planning meeting Sunday at 8PM in Turumi Lodge Lobby

We are also looking for X_CHAT volunteers that during flight can interact with classrooms at Osan and around the world! Please contact Emily for the details.

Plan for SUNDAY, MAY 8th: HARD-DOWN DAY (No Aircraft access)

Meetings:
0800 - 1000: Flight Planning Meeting

The Plan of the Day for Saturday May 7th:

NASA DC-8:
0500: Power ON
0630: Flight Brief
0730: Doors Close
0800: Take Off
LaRC UC-12B:
0730: Take off, Flight #1
1230: Take off, Flight #2
Hanseo King Air:
0800: Take off, Flight #1
1230: Take off, Flight #2

Meetings:
No Flight Planning Meeting scheduled for May 7th.

VOLUNTEERS!! VOLUNTEERS!!
We are looking for a few good volunteers to present your work and the KORUS-AQ mission at the schools on base. Please email Emily Schaller (e.schaller@nserc.und.edu) if you would like to volunteer or have questions. The time frames are as follows:

Monday: Osan AB Middle School
Thursday: Osan AB High School

We are also looking for X_CHAT volunteers that during flight can interact with classrooms at Osan and around the world! Please contact Emily for the details.

All Aircraft Access:
DC-8: 0800 – 1600
Hanseo King Air &  LaRC UC-12B: exact hours might vary.

Meetings:
0800 – 1000: Flight Planning Meeting
1615 – 1715: Science Team Meeting

Weekend Outlook:
Saturday: Flight day
Sunday: Hard down day
Monday: Flight day. Please make appropriate preparations, and let us know if there any issues that would prevent your readiness for the possibility.

Egress Training:
All new comers should coordinate with Matt Berry (matthew.j.berry@nasa.gov) and/or ESPO to schedule the egress training. Ideally it should happen the day before the flight or during flight days between 0500 and 0600. Please plan accordingly and proactively.

ESPO TurnOver:
All, I’ll be heading back to the US for a few weeks this coming Sunday. Kent Shiffer will be taking over the main ESPO lead. He’ll have the same local phone number (+82 10 6884-4363) as well as his US number: +1 650-336-3127. As usual please email us at osan@espo.nasa.gov

Visitors:
We’ll be having some USAF visitors (4) tomorrow between 10am-11am and then some in the afternoon. It will be a continuous thing, it is nothing formal and not an imposition on us by any measure, they just want to see what we do and chat a bit, feel free to wave us off if you are busy.

Useful Osan AB phone numbers: Please check the following link for numbers commonly used.
http://www.osan.af.mil/Home/Newcomers/Helpfulphonenumbers.aspx

Social Media:
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and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KORUS_AQ

The Plan for tomorrow, 5 de Mayo, depends on the Go/No Go decision to be made at 0600. If a No-Go decision is made, access to the aircraft will go until 1300 hours. The Flight Planning Meeting will continue as usual, but regardless of whether we fly or not, there will be no Science Team Meeting tomorrow afternoon.

NASA DC-8:
0500: Power ON /Aircraft access
0600: Go / No Go Decision
0630: Flight Brief
0730: Doors Close
0800: Take Off (4.5hr – 5hr)

LaRC UC-12B:
0600: Go / No Go Decision
0730: Take Off  ******* CORRECTED from 0800 **********

Hanseo King Air:
0800: Take Off ***** UPDATED ***************

MEETINGS:
0800 – 1000: Flight Planning Meeting

Afternoon: No Science Team Meeting.

PLAN OF THE DAY, MAY 4TH:
DC-8:
0500:    Power ON
0630:    Flight Brief B1187
0730:    Doors Close
0800:    Take Off

LaRC UC-12B: (Nominal plan)
0730 - 1130:    Flight #1
1130 – 1230:    Refueling
1230 – 1630:    Flight #2

Hanseo King Air:
0800 – 1130:    Flight #1 (3.5hr)
1130 – 1330:    Refueling
1330 – 1700:    Flight #2 (3.5hr)

TRACKING AND X-CHAT:
If you don't have an MTS account yet, you can try the following methods to track or communicate with the flight(s):

Users on the ground can view the flight track in KML at 
http://asp-interface-2.arc.nasa.gov/API/KML/FlightTrack/N817NA

If anyone on the DC-8 wants to use Google Earth instead of the onboard moving map, they can use http://10.1.1.1/API/KML/FlightTrack/N817NA

Chat instructions are attached since some people didn't get them.  If anyone needs help getting the chat software set up they should contact Mike Delaney.  If anyone flying tomorrow still needs it please download and install HexChat before getting on the airplane.

UPDATING CALLING INSTRUCTIONS:
Please see the attached dialing instructions, some of the pre-fixes (specially to call DSN numbers) have changed in the last few days.

"May the 4th be with you"

PLAN OF THE DAY, MAY 2nd:

DC-8:
0500: POWER ON
0630: FLIGHT BRIEF (Bldg 1187)
0730: DOOR CLOSES
0800: TAKE OFF

LaRC UC-12B: (There is a possibility of two flights. Still TBD.)
0730: TAKE OFF

Hanseo King Air:
TAKE OFF TIME: To be determined.