DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE                    
                       Air Force Reserve Command                     



MEMORANDUM FOR ARWO Scheduler                               06 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                 
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| Mission Type        | Hurricane                                            |
| Tasking             | 0530Z & 1130Z                                        |
| Mission ID          | 5301 1118A RAFAEL                                    |
| Departure Base/Time | KBIX 11/06/24 02:06                                  |
| Arrival Base/Time   | KBIX 11/06/24 13:14                                  |
| Flight Time         | 11.1 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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| 11/06/24 05:15 | 20 04 N   | 080 49 W   |  978  |  72  |   83  |     X     |
| 11/06/24 06:40 | 20 15 N   | 081 00 W   |  975  |  88  |   86  |     X     |
| 11/06/24 07:52 | 20 24 N   | 081 09 W   |  972  |  85  |   73  |     X     |
| 11/06/24 09:01 | 20 34 N   | 081 17 W   |  970  |  66  |   62  |     X     |
| 11/06/24 10:36 | 20 49 N   | 081 29 W   |  967  |  76  |   80  |     X     |
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                      C R E W   R O S T E R                          
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|AC   | Bolton                                                               |
|CP   | White                                                                |
|Nav  | Withee                                                               |
|ARWO | Nelson                                                               |
|LM   | Hogue                                                                |
|OTHER|                                                                      |
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REMARKS:
Mission Notes: Completed 5 hurricane penetrations. 

Met System Used: F

Equipment Issues:
- Blue SCOD around 0226Z, initially everything came back up good but then XMIT FAILED about 5 minutes after restart. Restarted entire pallet which fixed the SATCOM.
- Red flashing 1-sec data around 0258Z. Switched from R/R to L/L and flashing continued. Lasted approximately 10 minutes. 
- Oxygen regulator Emergency toggle switch button was sheared off, wrote up in 781. 
- HDD 2 repeater inop for ARWO and DSO pallets, wrote up in 781.
- Had a number of issues with sondes, 4 where sonde did not deploy and 1 that terminated early.

Transmitted:
RECCOS: 13
VDMS: 5
DROPS: 23
BAD SONDES (Launched, not transmitted): 6

Penetrations Logged:  0             ARWO:____________________________________

Penetrations Verified:          Verifier:____________________________________

Penetrations Posted:              Awards:____________________________________