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In 2001 I was bouncing between small boy decks in the Arabian Gulf delivering mail and expired vaccine. I called our next customer and told them we were in bound to land and asked for their wind numbers for the flight deck. The numbers were out of the envelope for flight ops because the ship was sailing cross wind. As we approached the ship said they were going to maneuver for winds and we watched the ship make a 360° turn to its original heading and report different deck winds (which were wrong).
So I did the Moboard in my head and told the ship which direction it is going to have to turn to get winds in the envelope. Which they still couldn't figure out. So we flew to the next ship on our roster and they didn't get their mail.
If a pilot can figure out wind and ship vectors better than the people running the bridge that day, is it any surprise that a similar crew would not figure out in time that there is another ship and what direction they needed to turn to avoid it?
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