# Storm Avoidance - Crew calling the DPA

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/storm-avoidance-crew-calling-the-dpa/64495>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [October 30, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/storm-avoidance-crew-calling-the-dpa/64495 "2022-10-30T12:03:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 11

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/storm-avoidance-crew-calling-the-dpa/64495/11 "2022-10-31T11:22:27Z")

</div>

It might help if junior officers had more to report than just some vague “I don’t like this”. If there was a requirement to maintain a paper plot and generate and log numbers for CPA (Closest Point of Approach) to the center and max winds expected that would give the crew something more concrete to report.

Another approach would be to add material on [Mitigated Speech](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/mitigated-speech/46923) to the required classes.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/storm-avoidance-crew-calling-the-dpa/64495)._