Hey All,
As the weekend comes to an end, Challenger is continuing to push onwards as we try and pave a way to Ascension.
According to the myocean model (white vectors) and the HyCOM model (green) the currents at depth should be flowing to the north. However, Challenger is continuing to show that the currents are flowing to the west.
On Friday, I was able to get the myocean model working on our end once again to create the road map below, showing two potential paths, both roughly 1700 km from Challengers location to Ascension. That afternoon, we were able to get a new way point in to the north west and made the switch to fly with the standard presets on the glider flight parameters. As we discussed before, these factory presets should allow us to fly in a more ideal manner that we will look into tomorrow with our team. Tomorrow will also find us looking further into the rtofs model to try and create a similar map of the currents at depth to give us more insight as to how we should fly.
Fore Wind Sea & Honor