Mission Summary
20140915N1 Aircraft 49RF
Model Evaluation flight

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderJeff Hagan
Co-pilotD MacIntyre
Co-pilotJason Mansour
Flight EngineerKevin Rotteveel
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Flight DirectorShannon Hefferan
Electronic TechnicianJoe Greene
Electronic TechnicianGabe Defeo
AVAPSMike Mascaro
Data EngineerLeondard Miller

Scientific Crew (49RF)
Remote Dropsonde ScientistKathryn Sellwood (HRD)

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will fly a HRD-tasked Model Evaluation missions around Edouard. The G-IV will leave St. Croix, USVI at 1300 UTC on September 15th and will recover at Bermuda 1930 UTC the same day.


Proposed track
(earth relative)

Final track

MODEL EVALUATION MISSION PLAN: Edouard
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
September 14, 2014 02:50 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 15/1300Z
DROP LOCATIONS
# LAT LON RAD/AZM TIME
deg min deg min nm/dg hr:mn
225 4558 10 180/2401:25
328 4958 15 180/3001:51
430 2055 23 180/0002:16
528 5452 31 180/0602:40
625 5652 36 180/1203:05
724 2955 33 180/1803:31
825 4656 41 120/2103:45
927 3257 51 120/2704:03
1029 1856 46 120/3304:21
1129 2054 34 120/0304:37
1227 3753 29 120/0904:54
1325 5554 39 120/1505:11
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
St. Croix, USVI12:51 UTC St. Croix, USVI19:27 UTC

16 dropsondes deployed (4 extra requested by HRD), 2 reccos sent.

Problems :

Pilots had problem with FMS #1 near end of flight.


Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | Error Summary | NetCDF data | 1 second data



Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Page last updated February 17, 2015
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