ORACLES

Accomplishments:
Saturday: P-3 completed Science flight #PRF01Y17 (see picture - credits: Jhony Zavaleta.  Note the container ship in the distance where we think our equipment from Wallops is currently located.)

Sunday August 13

Science Flight #PRF02Y17

Group A: (Crew, ac scientists, forecaster A, ground flight scientist A)

0430 Hotel Limited Breakfast

0530 Weather Briefing

Accomplishments:
Thursday: P-3 arrived in São Tomé / Science flight #PRF00Y17 complete (see picture - credits: Jhony Zavaleta)

Saturday August 12

Science Flight #PRF01Y17

Group A: (Crew, ac scientists, forecaster A, ground flight scientist A)

0430 Hotel Limited Breakfast

0530 Weather Briefing

0530 Shuttle Hotel to Airport

0610 2nd Shuttle Run Hotel to Airport

0710 3rd Shuttle Run Hotel to Airport

NASA's P-3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how tiny airborne particles called aerosols change the properties of clouds and how they influence the amount of incoming sunlight the clouds reflect or absorb.

Plan of the Day - Times in GMT

Friday August 11

0800 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport

0800 weather/forecast.

0900 Flight Planning Discussion

0820-1530 Instrument access (up to 1600 if needed)

1000 Lunch box ordering closes

1000 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport and 10:20 Airport to Hotel

1600 weather/forecast

1700 All Hands #2

Saturday August 12

Science Flight

Group A: (Crew, ac scientists, forecaster A, ground flight scientist A)

Thursday August 10

0300 Hotel Breakfast opens for early commercial flight

0700 Normal Hotel Breakfast start

0700 P-3 cars made available

0745 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport

0800-1300 P-3 Science Access (longer only if needed - start early)

0800 weather/forecast.

0900 Flight Planning Discussion

1000 Flight Planning

1000 Shuttle: Hotel to Airport and 10:20 return Airport to Hotel

1200 Pilot/P3 Orientation & Flight Plans to Pilots

1500 Feedback on plans

1530 All Hands#2