Mission Summary
20190902N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance around Dorian

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderRon Moyers
Co-pilotBrad Fitzler
Co-pilotMatthew Nardi
Flight DirectorAshley Lundry
Flight DirectorNic Morgan
System EngineerSteve Paul
AVAPSLeonard Miller
AVAPSAkshar Patel

Science crew (49RF)
None

Science crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190902N1 mission for Dorian
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190902N1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will conduct a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 05:40 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 10:26 UTC
Expendables 17 GPS sondes
2 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 31, 2019 6:45:53 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 02/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 29 06 -88 530:11
2 28 12 -87 330:24
3 27 18 -86 120:36
4 26 24 -84 510:49
5 25 30 -83 301:02
6 24 39 -80 181:28
7 24 05 -78 401:41
8 25 56 -79 041:57
9 27 00 -79 302:06
10 28 04 -79 042:15
11 28 30 -78 002:24
12 29 55 -78 402:37
13 29 55 -77 202:47
14 29 21 -76 082:58
15 28 18 -75 183:08
16 28 04 -76 563:21
17 27 00 -76 303:30
18 27 00 -75 003:42
19 25 42 -75 183:53
20 24 39 -76 084:03
21 23 00 -76 004:17
22 23 00 -74 304:29
23 24 30 -74 304:41
24 25 30 -73 304:52
25 27 00 -73 305:05
26 28 30 -73 005:18
27 30 00 -73 005:30
28 31 00 -74 305:44
29 32 30 -74 305:56
30 32 30 -76 006:07
31 31 00 -76 006:20
32 31 30 -77 306:32
33 32 45 -78 156:43
34 31 30 -79 006:55
35 30 30 -80 007:06
36 30 08 -87 208:02

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data |

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