Aircraft Commander | Justin Kibbey |
Co-pilot | Kevin Doremus |
Co-pilot | Robert Mitchell |
Flight Engineer | Mike Sanchez |
Flight Engineer | Ken Heystek |
Navigator | Pete Freeman |
Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
Flight Director | Lundry |
System Engineer | Terry Lynch |
Data Technician | Nick Underwood |
AVAPS | James Warnecke |
LPS | Rob Rogers | HRD |
Dropsonde | Jason Dunion | HRD |
Radar | Brittany Dahl | HRD |
LPS | Paul Chang | NESDIS |
Observer | Wayn Pullen | AOC |
Observer | Phil McCausland | Univ. OK |
Observer | Edgar Serrano | unk |
Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
![]() Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190905H1 mission for Dorian |
![]() Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20190905H1 mission for Dorian |
Mission Plan :
NOAA42 will conduct a EMC-taskedTDR mission into Hurricane Dorian followed by an Ocean Winds module.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 08:21 UTC
| Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 15:41 UTC
| Penetrations
| 8
| Expendables
| GPS sondes 20 good, 1 bad
| |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division Aug. 30, 2019 12:15 PM EDT Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 05/0800Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD/AZMON | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | deg nm | hr:min | ||||
1S | 30 18 | 79 24 | 105/180 | 0:38 | |||
2S | 33 48 | 79 24 | 105/360 | 1:31 | |||
3S | 32 56 | 81 12 | 105/300 | 1:57 | |||
4S | 31 10 | 77 38 | 105/120 | 2:50 | |||
5S | 32 56 | 77 36 | 105/060 | 3:18 | |||
6S | 31 15 | 81 00 | 95/240 | 4:08 | |||
7S | 30 25 | 80 06 | 105/200 | 4:26 | |||
8S | 33 32 | 78 46 | 95/020 | 5:17 | |||
9S | 31 50 | 80 51 | 75/260 | 5:54 |
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 |
AVAPS log |
NetCDF data |