Aircraft Commander | Justin Kibbey |
Co-pilot | John Rossi |
Co-pilot | Nate Kahn |
Flight Engineer | Tuffnel |
Flight Engineer | Paul Darby |
Navigator | Brian Richards |
Flight Director | Jack Parrish |
Flight Director | James Carpenter |
System Engineer | Bobby Peek |
Data Technician | Mike McAllister |
AVAPS | Terry Lynch |
LPS | Rob Roger> | HRD |
Dropsonde | Kathryn Sellwood | HRD |
Radar | Andy Hazelton | HRD |
Observer | Joe Sapp | NESDIS |
Guest | Aria Kovalocich | unk |
Guest | unk | |
Guest | May Youpei | unk |
Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
![]() Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190829H2 mission for Dorian |
![]() Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190829H2 mission for Dorian |
Mission Plan :
NOAA42 will conduct a TDR mission into Hurricane Dorian .
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 22:30 UTC
| Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 06:?? UTC
| Expendables
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Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division Aug. 28, 2019 12:15 PM EDT Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 29/2030Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD/AZMON | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | deg nm | hr:min | ||||
1S | 23 47 | 70 18 | 105/300 | 2:06 | |||
2S | 22 01 | 67 01 | 105/120 | 2:59 | |||
3S | 23 47 | 67 00 | 105/060 | 3:26 | |||
4S | 22 01 | 70 17 | 105/240 | 4:19 | |||
5S | 21 09 | 68 39 | 105/180 | 4:46 | |||
6S | 24 39 | 68 39 | 105/360 | 5:39 |
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 |
LPS log | Radar log | Drop log Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | AVAPS log