Aircraft Commander | Harris Hlaverson |
Co-pilot | Chris Kerns |
Co-pilot | Pat Didier |
Navigator | Tim Gallagher |
Flight Engineer | Ken Heystek |
Flight Engineer | Paul Darby |
Flight Director | Rich Henning |
Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
System Engineer | Jim Roles |
System Engineer | Joe Bosko |
Data Technician | Terry Lynch |
AVAPS | Todd Richards |
LPS | Jun Zhang (HRD) |
Radar | Rob Rogers (HRD) |
Dropsonde | Frank Marks (HRD) |
CCN spectra | Luke Ziemba (NASA) |
Observer | Jonathan Vigh (NCAR) |
Observer | Hui Lui (HFIP) |
Observer | Bianca Hernandez (FDEM) |
Mission Plan :
Figure 2: Infrared satellite image from GOES-13 taken between 6-12 Z on August 25, 2014. |
The plan calls for a butterfly TDR pattern, with an initial point on the west side (Fig. 3a). The legs will be 120 nm in length. Dropsondes at the turn, mid, and center points. No AXBT's will be deployed. The pattern will be flown at 10,000 ft.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
MacDill AFB, FL
| 05:56 UTC
| MacDill AFB, FL
| 13:35 UTC
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Figure 3: (left) Planned flight track.
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(right) actual flight track.
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Mission Evaluation :
A total of three radar analyses were created and transmitted in real time, as well as 17 dropsondes. There were problems with TDR recording and the AOC ground server at the beginning about the flight. The problems were fixed during the flight so that transmissions of radar analyses and dropsondes in real-time were successful.
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Figure 4: Real-time Doppler radar analysis of the wind speed at | 2, 5, and 8 km. Dropsonde measured wind speed and direction are also shown. |
Problems :
The primary problem with this flight was the failure of the TDR data recording and the primary ground server at AOC. However, these problems were fixed during the flight.
Jun Zhang
Nov. 6, 2014
Mission Data :
serial data |
Flight Director's manifest |
Flight Director's log