It's about 10 am PDT and we are sitting in the Airborne Science Lab at DAOF in Palmdale, CA, preparing for the second SARP flight on board the DC-8 flying laboratory.
The flight plan has been adjusted slightly from the July 22 flight plan - instead of attempting four overflights of Monterey Bay the new plan is to do three overflights. Additionally, the DC-8 pilots have decided they need to adjust the way points slightly to guarantee that the overflight of the almond orchard is done exactly in line with what is needed to support ground-based measurements. In the previous flight on July 22, there was some in-flight adjusting between the waypoints that caused this line to be missed.
For this flight, the agriculture team will be on board assisting in operating the MASTER instrument. Out in the field is the gas sampling team. This field team should see us fly right over head as we conduct our low-level flights (1,000 feet) collecting gas samples with the WAS to support thier field gas sampling effort.
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