Philippines Debriefing
By: Maya Whiteley
About Us (Filipino American Medical Society aka FAMS)
- Sarah Broder: Pilot- commander of the aircraft, double checks the route, approves in flight route changes, and also helps in selection of relief supplies
- Sarah Rashdan: Medical Officer- determines which supplies will be needed for the mission in order to prevent along with control disease outbreak, serves as the expert on diseases, and helps select relief supplies
- Areeba Shaikh: Navigator- identifies airport stop and calculates flight times, plots final route on the map, reviews flight and weather hazards and advisories, informs pilot if any changes are necessary, and helps select relief supplies
- Maya Whiteley: Loadmaster- supervises supplies among the five pallets based on the aircraft and helps select relief supplies
Mission Goal / Objective
- Mission Goal: To send medical aid and refill supplies for the people who need it in Tacloban.
- Primary Objective: Help the people in need of medical supplies needed for survival that were affected by the typhoon.
Accolades
- Manifest of what was Delivered- 27,200 pounds of supplies with volume of 2,904 feet squared:
-4,500 pounds of portable hospital
-2,800 pounds of medical supplies
-4,400 pounds of food
-500 pounds of refrigerated medical chest
-7,200 pounds of drinking water
-700 pounds of miscellaneous supplies
-2,400 pounds of portable latrine
-1,200 pounds of mosquito supplies
Pallet Manifest
Pallet #1
-4 medical supplies (800 lbs)
-Pallet, cargo nets, and straps (500 lbs)
Total weight: 4,300
Total Volume: 640 ft
Pallet #2
-1 refrigerated medical chest (500 lbs)
-5 boxes of medical supplies (1,000 lbs)
-1 portable hospital (1,500 lbs)
-Pallet, cargo nets, and straps (500 lbs)
Total Weight: 4,300 lbs
Total Volume: 616 ft
Pallet #3
-4 boxes of food (1,600 lbs)
-3 boxes of medical supplies (600 lbs)
-1 box of miscellaneous items (350 lbs)
-Pallet, cargo nets, and straps (500 lbs)
Total Weight: 6,650
Total Volume: 576 ft
Pallet #4
-1 box of miscellaneous supplies (350 lbs)
-2 clothing blankets (1,000 lbs)
-1 box of food (400 lbs)
-1 box of mosquito supplies (600 lbs)
-Pallet, cargo nets, and straps (500 lbs)
Total Weight: 5,250 lbs
Total Volume: 544 ft
Pallet #5
-2 boxes of drinking water (3,600 lbs)
-1 box of mosquito supplies (600 lbs)
-2 boxes of medical supplies (400 lbs)
-Pallet, cargo nets, and straps (500 lbs)
Total Weight: 6,700 lbs
Total Volume: 528 ft
Time Taken to Deliver Supplies
(1 day, 7 hours, 16 minutes)
Accomplishments
Our Goal
Flight Map
Flight Plan
2. North Weyburn, Canada >>> High Level Airport (807 mi.) Total Time: 2 hr. 49 min.
3. High Level Airport >>> Manly Hot Springs Airport (1,160 mi.) Total Time: 3 hr. 51 min.
4. Manly Hot Springs, Alaska >>> Tilichili Airport, Russia, (1, 375 mi.) Total Time: 4 hr. 28 min.
5. Tilichili Airport >>> Khabarovsk Navy (1,436 mi.) Total Time: 4 hr. 39 min.
6. Khabarovsk Navy >>> Yingha Airport (1, 434 mi.) Total Time: 4 hr. 39 min.
7. Yingha Airport >>> Lanog Airport (1, 213 mi.) Total Time: 4 hr. 1 min.
8. Laoag Airport >>> Tacloban Airport (556 mi.) Total Time: 2 hr. 9 min.
ALL FLIGHTS HAVE GROUND SPEED OF 345 MPH AND 30 MIN. GROUND REFUEL TIME
Typhon Haiyan was one of the strongest ever recorded with 6,340 fatalities.
What We Accomplished (Chronological)
- Researched the Philippines
- Learned more about the major epidemic diseases affecting the Philippines in a presentation
- Determined our mission goal and primary objective
- Made our pallets to go on the cargo plane to the Philippines
- Learned about Google Earth and formed a flight plan
- Began our debriefing project (this)
- Sent supplies to help people in the Philippines!
Misconceptions Addressed / Lessons Learned
- Before this project, I knew very little about the Philippines, so I thought the last major typhoon happened a very long time ago, not in the past decade.
- One lesson/tip I learned during this project is that slacking off adds up and makes things harder later in the long run.
Effective / Not Effective Strategies
- Worked- Whenever our team was researching diseases, it worked best to split up the diseases amongst us.
- Did Not Work- One strategy that did not work is to randomly place things on the pallet. At first, we would randomly place items on the pallet and try to make it work, but we could never get the supplies to fit.