New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- A regular TLP fly day starts at 09.30 with a briefing on the weather followed by a mission scenario brief and the appointing of a mission commander for that day. At 10.00 the planning of the mission starts until 14.00 when "stepping" is scheduled. Stepping is the phase were the aircrews reach their aircraft and do all their pre-work together with the ground crew to finally start-up their engines and be ready for take-of scheduled by 15.00. Around 16.45 the recovery starts, when aircraft return in pairs to Albacete after their mission. As the final FC took place late November, about the half of the aircraft returned as the sun already had set below the horizon. Although the mission has been finalised, the day is not over...