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	Dominique Duchanoy
Pilot	Guillaume Seurat
Mechanics	Thierry André
Expé Principal	Benoît Celou
Expé	Michel Cluzeau
PI	Marie Lothon
LNG	Sophie Bounissou
aWALI	Valentin Guillet
Microphys 1	Pierre Coutris
Microphys 2	Guy Lefebvre
RASTA	Christophe Legac
BASTA	Tristan Thil