Flight plan - ATR-20240901a

sar_under

Flight plan

• The flight is planned to take off at 2024-09-01 19:30:00+00:00 UTC and land at 2024-09-01 23:00:00+00:00 UTC.

• Flight track designed for coordination with SAR.

• ‘Millefeuille’ flight pattern (lower-troposphere only, multiple levels) to better sample shallow convection

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from orcestra.flightplan import sal, bco, LatLon, IntoCircle, path_preview, plot_cwv
from datetime import datetime
import intake

cat = intake.open_catalog("https://tcodata.mpimet.mpg.de/internal.yaml")

date_time = datetime(2024, 9, 1, 12, 0, 0)
date_time_str = date_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
flight_time = datetime(2024, 9, 2, 18, 0, 0)


airport = sal
wp1 = LatLon(lat=16.755, lon=-22.620, label='wp1')
wp2 = LatLon(lat=14.752, lon=-22.171, label='wp2')
wp3 = LatLon(lat=15.500, lon=-22.348, label='wp3')


path = [airport, wp1, wp2, wp3, wp1, airport]

ds = cat.HIFS(refdate=date_time_str, reftime=date_time.hour).to_dask()
cwv_flight_time = ds["tcwv"].sel(time=flight_time, method = "nearest")

ax = path_preview(path)
ax.set_extent([-24, -20, 13.5, 17])

plot_cwv(cwv_flight_time)

• SAFIRE Flight Plan submitted to Air Traffic Control (ATC)

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import pandas as pd
from dataclasses import asdict

pd.DataFrame.from_records(map(asdict, path)).set_index("label")

	lat	lon	fl	time	note
label
SAL	16.734488	-22.943974	0.0	None	None
wp1	16.755000	-22.620000	NaN	None	None
wp2	14.752000	-22.171000	NaN	None	None
wp3	15.500000	-22.348000	NaN	None	None
wp1	16.755000	-22.620000	NaN	None	None
SAL	16.734488	-22.943974	0.0	None	None

Crew

Job	Name
Pilot	None
Pilot	None
Mechanics	None
Expé Principal	None
Expé	None
PI	Marie Lothon
LNG	None
aWALI	None
Microphys 1	None
Microphys 2	None
RASTA	None
BASTA	None