23 July, 2008

9 missions to Dolly...



We had a total of 9 missions to Dolly.

6 missions flown in the P-3's and 3 missions flown in the GIV. Missions started on Sunday morning (0400) to the last flight which left yesterday afternoon (~1630).

Overall the missions were all very successful. A few early season bugs were found and are promptly being exterminated. Hopefully for the next set of missions I'll be on one of the aircraft.

BTW, if you want to view our aircraft data in real time you can do so at the NHC website:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/reconlist.shtml

or through Google Earth. You'll first have to download the Google Earth software and then the recon widget which can be found here:

http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/recon/