DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE                    
                       Air Force Reserve Command                     



MEMORANDUM FOR ARWO Scheduler                               23 Sep 23

FROM: 53 WRS Flight Meteorologist                                    

SUBJECT: Mission Summary Report                                      


                G E N E R A L  I N F O R M A T I O N                 
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| Mission Type        | Tropical Storm                                       |
| Tasking             | 0530Z and 1130Z fixes                                |
| Mission ID          | 5302 0216A OPHELIA                                   |
| Departure Base/Time | KBIX 09/23/23 02:36                                  |
| Arrival Base/Time   | KBIX 09/23/23 12:26                                  |
| Flight Time         |  9.8 hours                                           |
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                          F I X   P O I N T S              
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|                | Latitude  | Longitude  |  SLP  | MWnd |  SWS  |           |
|    Date/Time   | dd mm N/S | ddd mm E/W |   mb  |  kt  |   kt  | Hurricane |
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| 09/23/23 05:02 | 33 42 N   | 077 00 W   |  984  |  33  |    0  |           |
| 09/23/23 06:19 | 33 54 N   | 077 09 W   |  982  |  49  |    0  |           |
| 09/23/23 07:27 | 34 03 N   | 077 04 W   |  981  |  44  |    0  |           |
| 09/23/23 08:32 | 34 18 N   | 076 56 W   |  982  |  51  |    0  |           |
| 09/23/23 09:33 | 34 34 N   | 077 04 W   |  982  |  51  |    0  |           |
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                      C R E W   R O S T E R                          
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|AC   | Manganero                                                            |
|CP   | Rosal, McDermott                                                     |
|Nav  | Hudgins                                                              |
|ARWO | Carpenter, Nelson (training)                                         |
|LM   | Hudgins                                                              |
|OTHER|                                                                      |
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REMARKS:
Mission Notes: Tasked with 0530Z and 1130Z fixes. TS Ophelia was close to landfall, so had to do a bowtie pattern. Completed 5 fixes. Adjusted in flight to get data on west side of the storm requested by forecaster. Made landfall before making final pass in fix window. 

Equipment Issues:
DDPH: TD was red at mission start. Ended mission and it greened up, appended it and went red again. Closed MM, reopened MM, then appended and it stayed green.
SATCOM: Received RCVROFF error periodically throughout the flight and once I had to restart SATCOM and the other time CARCAH had to restart SATCOM. 
SFMR: Did not work. Had a RMS Error of -1 even over the water. The brightness temps were in the -300+ for some of the frequencies. There was this on the command prompt scrolling window: %DB 23/09/2023 04:36:00 16384 wind_rain_alg_failed a_delay:0.4 a_received_ts:1695443760.4 a_parsed_ts:1695443760.0 -- wrote it up in the forms. 
Computer: 2 blue screens post-storm at altitude en route to KBIX. 

Transmitted:
RECCOS: 13
VDMS: 5
DROPS: 24
BAD SONDES (Launched, not transmitted): 2--0607Z fix was sent to me from Load but not transmitted because it terminated early.

Penetrations Logged:  0             ARWO:____________________________________

Penetrations Verified:          Verifier:____________________________________

Penetrations Posted:              Awards:____________________________________