Mission Summary
20190903N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance around Dorian

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilot Nardi
Flight DirectorRichard Henning
Flight DirectorJames Carpenter
System EngineerSteven Paul
System EngineerJeff Hartberger
Data TechnicianLeonard Miller
AVAPSAkshar Patel

Science crew (49RF)
Guest Normanunk

Science crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190903N1 mission for Dorian
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190903N1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will conduct a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 05:28 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 13:20 UTC
Expendables GPS 29 good, 2 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
September 01, 2019 5:55:55 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 03/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 29 07 -83 120:54
2 25 30 -83 001:21
3 24 00 -80 301:41
4 24 00 -78 441:52
5 24 30 -76 302:09
6 25 54 -74 542:26
7 27 24 -74 542:38
8 28 00 -73 002:54
8a28 00 -71 00
8b30 00 -71 00
9 30 00 -73 003:10
10 28 54 -74 543:27
11 29 54 -75 543:38
12 32 30 -74 004:04
13 32 30 -72 004:19
14 35 00 -71 004:41
15 34 30 -73 004:56
16 33 54 -75 245:15
17 31 54 -76 545:35
18 31 54 -78 545:50
19 30 19 -80 046:05
20 28 54 -79 246:18
21 28 28 -78 206:27
22 27 24 -77 546:36
23 26 20 -78 206:45
24 26 06 -76 426:58
25 27 24 -76 247:09
26 28 42 -76 427:20
27 29 45 -77 327:31
28 30 19 -78 447:41

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

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

Page last updated December 3, 2019
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