Hurricane Telecon Assignment
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Summarize the information of the telecons of the day before, the day of, and the day after the
Tropical Storm/Hurricane.
Telecon 11/08 6pm
21Zulu, the Tropical Storm Nicole was located 395 miles East of West Palm Beach Florida
.
The maximum wind were 65 miles per hour or 56 kts, and its movement was west at 10 miles per
hour or 9 kts.
Hurricane warnings area in effect basically from
Boca Raton Florida up to pasted Daytona
Beach.
Tropical Storm watches in effect for
Miami terminal, Orlando terminal, Tampa terminal, as well
as Savannas and Jacksonville.
Forecasts track the Hurricane will approach the northwestern Bahamas tonight, and
approach to
the east coast of Florida within the hurricane warning area Wednesday night into early Thursday.
Nicole’s center is
expected to move across the central and northern Florida into southern Georgia
Thursday and Thursday night.
Nicole is forecast to become a hurricane on Wednesday when it’s near the northwestern of
Bahamas and remain a hurricane when it approaches the east coast of Florida.
Palm Beach will ATC Zero tomorrow around 9am. (Probably end 9pm.)
Telecon 11/09 8:30am
Current 240 miles east of West Palm Beach Florida
moving towards west southwest at around 12
kts. Continue move towards S SW direction and eventually shift more towards west.
Hurricane strength as it makes landfall tonight.
34 kts now and expected to continue to increase its strength.
Palm Beach will ATC Zero tomorrow at 9am.
No planned radar shutdown at this time.
Telecon 11/09 6pm
135 miles east of West Palm Beach Florida
headed west ward 13 mph or 11 kts.
Hurricane warnings posted
Boca Raton, north to the Volusia Flagler County, Florida east coast.
Landfall after midnight EST as Cat I hurricane.
Become tropical storm later and continue influence.
Fort Pierce and Vero Beach ATC Zero until 11
th
at 02 Zulu.
Palm Beach ATC zero and airport close until 11/10 at 13 Zulu.
Stuart ATC zero and airport closed at 19 Zulu today until 11/10 at 17 Zulu.
Melbourne closed at 19 Zulu today until 11/10 at 21 Zulu.
St Petersburg 11/10 10 Zulu to 14 Zulu.
Tampa Tower ATZ Zero airport uncontrolled tonight. Frequency unable to talk to any aircraft
below 6000 ft. One in One out situation. Non radar. Holding, clearance and void time.
Orlando and Daytona approach limited and runway closure.
Telecon 11/10 8:30am
3 miles SW of Orlando at 12 Zulu
. Winds 60 mph or 52 kts moving west northwest 14 mph or 12
kts.
Atlanta center tonight.
Orlando runway status light outage.
Telecon 11/10 6pm
Tropical storm at northern FL moving northwest. Wind 25-30 kts gust to 35-40 kts.
No issue Miami center and Jackson center.
A plan of action based on how the information from the telecons would affect your operation.
1.
How the hurricane would affect your scheduled flights into Florida.
Cancel/divert/delay.
Check Notam about airport airspace condition, Runway availability, ATC, frequencies,
NAVAIDs, approaches, and airport closure.
If the airport is not going to close or being significant influenced at our arrival time, we
can keep our scheduled plan. The best option is to finish the flight and leave that area
before the hurricane coming in and airports starts to close.
If airport going to close during our arrival time, we can choose to cancel the flight, divert
to another airport, or delay the schedule. For example, it is better to cancel our flight to
West Palm Beach area during the landfall. However, if our destination airport is on the
edge of the influence area at that time and choose to cease operation, we can still divert to
our alternate airport around which is not under influence and still open at our arrival time.
And if the airport is close at our arrival time but going to reopen soon, we can also
choose to delay our flight instead of cancelling it or using our alternate.
However, for all the scheduled flights into Florida, we need to keep an eye on the weather
and facility updates and make sure to operating safely.
2.
The plan of action you would take for airspace/airport closures.
Check closures reasons and period.
If airport going to close during our arrival time, we can choose to cancel the flight, divert
to another airport, or delay the schedule. For example, it is better to cancel our flight to
West Palm Beach area during the landfall. However, if our destination airport is on the
edge of the influence area at that time and choose to cease operation, we can still divert to
our alternate airport around which is not under influence and still open at our arrival time.
And if the airport is close at our arrival time but going to reopen soon, we can also
choose to delay our flight instead of cancelling it or using our alternate.
For all flight choose to go into that area, we need to keep checking for new updates of
weather and airport, runway, frequency, ATC and radar facilities, and make sure
everything is under control and within limitation. And no matter, we choose to divert or
delay the flight, we must plan for a delay caused by weather reason, approach and radar
limitation, ATC workload, etc., and always have alternate plan ready.
3.
How would inoperative navaids affect your scheduled flights.
Airport closure due to weather and frequency outage, such as Tampa airport. Airport
limited operation due to runway light outage, such as Orlando airport. And enroute
facility and approach influenced due to radar outage.
We can expect delays or special operations when there is an inoperative navaid for
enroute facility or arrival and airport facilities.
Inoperative navaids would also influence our approach minimum into the airport. We
need to check the available arrival approaches in our destination airport and make
decision based on minimums, limitations, and weather conditions. Also, it would
influence weather we need and alternate or not.
4.
The effect of the aftermath of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane on other states.
School closure, power outage, airport closure or limit operation.
Heavy rainfall and gusting winds in Georgia.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/weather/hurricane-nicole-florida-saturday/index.html
Two short-lived EF0 tornadoes were confirmed near Tignor and Dinwiddie, Virginia with
damage limited to trees, outbuildings, and farm equipment.
https://wset.com/weather/weather-extra/gallery/nicole-brings-heavy-rain-severe-
potential-to-virginia-before-a-big-cooldown-lynchburg-roanoke-danville-southside-
hurricane-tropical-depressionn-storm-watch-november-2022?photo=1
5.
Planning recovery flights for stranded passengers as well as any rescue/relief operations
if possible.
Delay or reschedule flights. Resume normal operation ASAP while remain safe operation.
Rebook passenger on same airline at no additional cost.
Rebook on partner airline or another airline with which it has an agreement at no
additional cost.
Meal or meal cash/voucher when cancellation results in passenger waiting for 3 hours or
more for new flight.
Complimentary hotel accommodations for any passenger affected by an overnight
cancellation.
Complimentary ground transportation to and from hotel for any passenger affected by an
overnight cancellation.
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-cancellation-delay-dashboard
6.
Any other information you would like to include.
As a passenger, I’d rather not going.
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