Campaign Schedule

• Both aircraft will arrive on August 31, 2006 but the Geophysica will start in Verona at approx. 4.00 h and the DLR Falcon will start approx. at 5.00 h (local time) in the morning in Oberpfaffenhofen. In order to avoid the afternoon heat in Marrakesh, which is a potential risk for the operation of the aircraft and the instruments this early times were choosen. Geophysica and DLR Falcon will try to keep their stop over short in order to arrive in Ouagadougou around midday.
• It is anticipated that the Geophysica will perform 5 flights until August 14.
• It is anticipated that the German Falcon will perfrom 7 flights until August 17.
• On the way back the Falcon will do the stopover in Tunisia instead of Marocco.
• The German Falcon and the Geophysica will not perform all flights together - the Falcon has no Lidar on board - so no pathfinding activities for the Geophysica will be performed.
• The expected dates of the flights will depend on the meteorological conditions/instrument status and the biggest effort will be done to coordinate the flights with the other aircraft in Niamey and/or the SCOUT-O3 balloon campaign when scientific goals are similar.