Aircraft Commander | Scott Price |
Co-pilot | Pat Didier |
Co-pilot | Nate Kahn |
Navigator | Tim Gallagher |
Flight Engineer | Joe Klippel |
Flight Engineer | Chris Lalonde |
Flight Director | Ian Sears |
Data Technician | Dana Naeher |
Dropsonde Operator | Jeff Smith |
Dropsonde Operator | Bobby Peek |
Lead Scientist | Eric Uhlhorn | HRD |
Observer | Jacob Rascon | NBC News |
Observer | Jorge Pujol | NBC News |
Proposed NOAA 43 track |
Actual NOAA 43 track |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 43RF will conduct HRD-tasked Ocean Survey mission in front of Tropical Storm Danny in the Atlantic east of Barbados.
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division August 20, 2015 Aircraft: N43RF Proposed takeoff: 21/1400Z
TURN LOCATION TABLE
| #
| LAT
| LON
| RAD/AZM
| LEG
| TOTAL
| Time
|
| deg min
| deg min
| naut mi/deg
| nmi
| nmi
| hr:min
| 1 | BARBADOS | 0. | 0. | 0:01
| 2 | 14 30 | 58 00 | 123. | 123. | 0:34
| 3 | 17 30 | 58 00 | 180. | 303. | 1:21
| 4 | 17 30 | 57 00 | 57. | 360. | 1:37
| 5 | 14 30 | 57 00 | 180. | 541. | 2:25
| 6 | 14 30 | 56 00 | 58. | 599. | 2:41
| 7 | 17 30 | 56 00 | 180. | 779. | 3:29
| 8 | 17 30 | 55 00 | 57. | 837. | 3:44
| 9 | 14 30 | 55 00 | 180. | 1017. | 4:32
| 10S | 14 30 | 49 50 | 60/270 | 301. | 1318. | 5:45
| 11S | 14 30 | 47 46 | 60/090 | 120. | 1438. | 6:14
| 12S | 15 30 | 48 48 | 60/000 | 85. | 1522. | 6:35
| 13S | 13 30 | 48 48 | 60/180 | 120. | 1642. | 7:05
| 14 | BARBADOS | 626. | 2268. | 9:11
| |
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Barbados, BWI | 13:59 UTC
| Barbados, BWI | 23:04 UTC
| Penetrations | 2
| |
10 dropsondes deployed, 1 bad, 9 transmitted. 28 AXBT deployed, 3 bad, 25 transmitted.
Problems :
Flight track |
Temperature and Moisture |
Wind and Atlitude |
Flight track detail |
Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data | serial data