| Aircraft Commander | Justin Kibbey |
| Co-pilot | Pat Didier |
| Co-pilot | Dean Legidakes |
| Flight Engineer | Paul Heystek |
| Flight Engineer | Mike Sanchez |
| Navigator | Pete Freeman |
| Flight Director | Jack Parrish |
| System Engineer | Akshar Patel |
| Data Technician | Terry Lynch |
| Data Technician | Todd Richards |
| LPS | Frank Marks | HRD |
| Radar | Trey Alvey | CIMAS |
| Dropsonde | Steve Diaz | HRD |
| Dropsonde | Sim Aberson | HRD |
| Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 42RF (N42) will carry out a TDR mission into Tropical Disturbance AL92 in the Gulf of Mexico.
![]() Proposed flight track |
![]() Actual flight track |
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Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division July 10, 2019 Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 11/0800Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
| #
| LAT
| LON
| RAD/AZM
| Time
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| deg min
| deg min
| n mi/deg
| hr:min
| 1S | 29 09 | 89 27 | 105/045 | 1:14
| 2S | 26 40 | 92 14 | 105/225 | 2:07
| 3S | 26 40 | 89 28 | 105/135 | 2:45
| 4S | 29 09 | 92 15 | 105/315 | 3:38
| 5S | 27 54 | 92 50 | 105/270 | 3:59
| 6S | 27 54 | 88 52 | 105/090 | 4:52
| 7S | 29 39 | 90 51 | 105/000 | 5:30
| 8S | 26 09 | 90 51 | 105/180 | 6:23
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Mission Summary :
| Take off | Landing
| Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL
| 08:03 UTC
| Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL
| 15:25 UTC
| Expendables
| 24 GPS sondes all good
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Problems :
Track with SFMR winds |
Flight track with winds |
Track with SFMR winds (Inner core) |
Flight track with winds (Inner core) |
Timeseries wind, SFMR wind, rain rate, altitude and pressure plots |
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Flight Director's log |
Flight Director's manifest |
NetCDF data |
1 second data
LPS log |
Radar log |
Drop log |
Data log
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