| 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 |
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LPS log | Radar log | Drop log