Aircraft Commander | Pat Didier |
Co-pilot | Robert Mitchell |
Co-pilot | Kevin Doremus |
Flight Engineer | Chris Lelonde |
Flight Engineer | Heystek |
Navigator | Pete Freeman |
Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
System Engineer | Dana Naeher |
AVAPS | Joe Greene |
LPS | Gus Alaka | HRD |
Dropsonde | Jason Sippel | HRD |
Radar | Brittany Dahl | HRD |
Observer | Alex Hudson | NatGeo |
Observer | Josh Rannenberg | AOC |
Observer | Alex Amezcu | unk |
Radar | Paul Reasor | HRD |
Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190829H1 mission for Dorian |
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190829H1 mission for Dorian |
Mission Plan :
NOAA42 will conduct a TDR mission into Hurricane Dorian while fulfilling fix requirements for NHC.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 09:50 UTC
| Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 18:36 UTC
| Expendables
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Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division Aug. 29, 2019 12:15 PM EDT Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 29/0930Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD/AZMON | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | deg nm | hr:min | ||||
1S | 20 07 | 67 56 | 75/225 | 2:47 | |||
2S | 21 53 | 66 03 | 75/045 | 3:25 | |||
3S | 21 53 | 67 57 | 75/315 | 3:52 | |||
4S | 20 07 | 66 04 | 75/135 | 4:30 | |||
5S | 21 00 | 65 40 | 75/090 | 4:45 | |||
6S | 21 00 | 68 20 | 75/270 | 5:24 |
Mission Evaluation / Problems :
Flight level wind along track |
Flight level wind along track in storm |
SFMR wind along flight track |
SFMR wind along flight track in storm |
Altitude, Pressure, Rain Rate, and Wind |
LPS log | Radar log | Drop log