Timings:

1300L / Z - Power to aircraft / Pre-flight (Steve Cowan)

1615L / Z - Security

1630L / Z - Brief (at the aircraft)

1715L / Z - Take Off - Exeter

2245L / Z - Land - Exeter

2345L / Z - Power off

Area(s) : A & B

Duration: 5h 21m 03s (CAVIAR and VACAR)

Crew:

01. Captain - Alan Foster (Directflight)

02. Co-pilot - Charlie Whittaker (Directflight)

03. CCM - Robbie Voaden (Directflight)

04. Mission Scientist 1 – Tom Emery (Met Office)

05. Flight Manager / AVAPS - Jamie Trembath (FAAM)*

06. Cloud Physics - Martyn Pickering (Met Office)

07. CAPS - Jessica Meyer (Julich)

08. ARIES - Stuart Newman (Met Office)

09. CVI - Elisabeth Ostrom (Met Office)

10. Mission Scientist 2 – Richard Cotton (Met Office)

11. Familiarisation – Lars Fiedler (Met Office)

12. LIDAR - Rob King (Met Office)

There are currently two briefs, as they are both dependant on how fast the cirrus moves into the southwest. However they both have identical starts, the same crew and the same working areas.

In the end the two sorties were combined into one.