DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Air Force Reserve Command MEMORANDUM FOR ARWO Scheduler 04 Nov 24 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mission Type | Invest | | Tasking | 1200Z | | Mission ID | 5301 0318A INVEST | | Departure Base/Time | KBI 11/04/24 07:45 | | Arrival Base/Time | KBIX 11/04/24 18:29 | | Flight Time | 10.7 hours | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- F I X P O I N T S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Latitude | Longitude | SLP | MWnd | SWS | | | Date/Time | dd mm N/S | ddd mm E/W | mb | kt | kt | Hurricane | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 11/04/24 13:15 | 14 58 N | 076 35 W | 1006 | 38 | 34 | | | 11/04/24 14:21 | 14 56 N | 076 36 W | 1008 | 24 | 0 | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- C R E W R O S T E R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |AC | Mentzer | |CP | Tift, Panasuk | |Nav | Walter | |ARWO | Nelson | |LM | Beste | |OTHER| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMARKS: Mission Notes: Tasked with 04/1130Z fix, came in and was briefed invest but could become fix. Arrived with daylight, started at FL010... climbed for weather and was able to fix at FL025 on 2nd and 3rd passes through. Met System Used: Started on C en route, switched to F when C started to go high. Equipment Issues: SFMR was doing well throughout the flight until inbound on the 3rd pass (2nd fix) when it was reading 15+ kts high when able to compare with visual sfc winds, most of the time in heavy precipitation and unable to compare. Did not transmit suspect winds in VDM. Sending the file to ProSensing for review. Blue SCOD on approach to land, "WDF Violation" Transmitted: RECCOS: 15 VDMS: 2 Penetrations Logged: 0 ARWO:____________________________________ Penetrations Verified: Verifier:____________________________________ Penetrations Posted: Awards:____________________________________