[MilCom] Hurricane Hunter "NOAA 49" up now

[Allan.Stern at gmail.com]

   It is Monday, 2:15am EDT (0615z).
   NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft "NOAA 49" was up with Miami Ctr on 119.825.
   The Center discussed tonight's routing and performance of the
aircraft which will be conducting a study of Tropical Storm Fay,
currently in the Caribbean near Cuba.
   NOAA 49 is a Gulfstream IV-SP (c/n 1246), based at the NOAA
Aircraft Ops Ctr, MacDill AFB Florida.
   NOAA 49 is now heading to its first waypoint for the flight. The
pilot has recited the following waypoints for the flight:
Waypoint 1: 31 North, 78 West
Waypoint 2: 31 North, 73 West
Waypoint 3: 28 North, 73 West
Waypoint 4: 28 North, 77 West
Waypoint 5: 24-30 North, 77 West
Waypoint 6: 22 North, 74 West
Waypoint 7: 20-30 North, 73-30 West
Waypoint 8: 19 North, 74 West
Waypoint 9: 19 North, 79 West
Waypoint 10: 20 North, 84 West
Waypoint 11: 23 North, 87 West
Waypoint 12: 24-30 North, 84 West
Waypoint 13: 26 North, 84 West
Waypoint 14: 26 North, 89 West
Waypoint 15: 28-30 North, 89 West
Waypoint 16: 26 North, 91 West
Waypoint 17: 28-30 North, 91 West
Waypoint 18: 28-30 North, 85 West
Then will RTB MacDill.
   There is some consternation,because the pilot admits that MacDill
filed a flight plan for the flight with incorrect waypoints. Miami Ctr
is now having to refile and enter each of the correct waypoints.  The
required coordination with New York is taking quite a bit of time.
   The NOAA pilot says "I am curious, did she get any of the waypoints correct?"
   Miami Ctr responds "Yeah, she got the RTB MacDill right."
   Miami Ctr now hands off NOAA 49 to HF freq 5550 kHz USB, with
secondary freq 3455 kHz USB.
   NOAA 49 has come up on 5550 kHz USB and repeated recital of the
listing of waypoints; also got a SelCal check.

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