(5) Any special typhoon reconnaissance sorties required to discharge typhoon reconnaissance responsibility in the area bounded by the equator, latitude 25° North, the Meridian of 180° and longitude of 157° 31' East. The Joint Task Force Weather Central will coordinate this effort. b. Flight procedures: (1) Weather Reconnaissance and Cloud Tracking Sorties: (a) The Commander, Test Services Unit, will insure that a thorough briefing of all personnel concerned is held in the Weather Central prior to each weather re- , connaissance and cloud tracking flight. This briefing will include tracks to be flown and communications, control reporting and emergency procedures. following personnel will attend the briefing: BP 1. The The Weather Reconnaissance Aircraft Crew. - The Weather Officer, who will be on duty in the Weather Central during the mission. The AOC and SAR Controllers who will be on duty during the mission. 4e (b) The 57th Strat Reconnaissance Squadron Radio- logical Safety Officer. Weather reconnaissance and cloud tracking aircraft will call the AOC on VHF Channel "C", immediately after take~off, and remain under the direct control of the Eniwetok AOC on this channel while within VHF range of Eniwetok. These aircraft will establish CW HF radio contact with the AOC on HF Circuit J-411 immediately after take-off and remain-under the AOC control throughout the mission on this circuit. Crews will submit position, weather and/or rad/safe reports to the AOC at 100 nautical miles intervals. The rad/safe code is included as Appendix 3 to this Annex. The weather code will be in accordance with Air Weather Service Manual 105-34, -1 August 1953, Recco Code. The Senior AOC Controller will insure that these reports are forwarded immediately to the Mniwetok Weather Central. The Iniwetok Weather Central will forward required reports to the USS ESTES Weather Central. The USS ESTES Weather Central will forward all rad/safe reports. received to the JTF SEVEN rad/safe officer in the JOC. -The Rniwetok AOC will continually plot the position of weather reconnaissance and/or cloud tracking aircraft. Upon completion of weather reconnaissance and cloud tracking missions, WB-29's will call the Rniwetok AOC on VHF Channel "C" when 100 miles out from Rniwetok and will remain under AOC control until base is in sight and instructions are received from the AOC to switch to Approach Control or Tower Frequency, Aircraft on specific weather reconnaissance flights will include reports of radiation, along with their primary mission weather reports, during the period H-Hour wtil HAS hours. ’(c) Any weather reconnaissance or cloud tracking aircraft experiencing an emergency within VHF radio range of Iniwetok will notify the Eniwetok AOC on VHF Channel "co", The Riwetok AOC will initiate SAR intercept and implement the SAR Plan. If the emergency is expericnced out of VHF range of Iniwetok, the following action will be taken: em TASK GROUP 7.4 &.