Aircraft Commander | Jeff Hagan |
Co-pilot | D MacIntyre |
Co-pilot | Jason Mansour |
Flight Engineer | Kevin Rotteveel |
Flight Director | Ian Sears |
Flight Director | Shannon Hefferan |
Electronic Technician | Joe Greene |
Electronic Technician | Gabe Defeo |
AVAPS | Mike Mascaro |
Data Engineer | Leondard Miller |
Remote Dropsonde Scientist | Kathryn Sellwood (HRD) |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 49RF will fly a HRD-tasked Model Evaluation missions around Edouard. The G-IV will leave St. Croix, USVI at 1300 UTC on September 15th and will recover at Bermuda 1930 UTC the same day.
Proposed track (earth relative) |
Final track |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division September 14, 2014 02:50 PM Aircraft: N49RF Proposed takeoff: 15/1300Z
DROP LOCATIONS
| #
| LAT
| LON
| RAD/AZM
| TIME
|
| deg min
| deg min
| nm/dg
| hr:mn
| 2 | 25 45 | 58 10 | 180/240 | 1:25
| 3 | 28 49 | 58 15 | 180/300 | 1:51
| 4 | 30 20 | 55 23 | 180/000 | 2:16
| 5 | 28 54 | 52 31 | 180/060 | 2:40
| 6 | 25 56 | 52 36 | 180/120 | 3:05
| 7 | 24 29 | 55 33 | 180/180 | 3:31
| 8 | 25 46 | 56 41 | 120/210 | 3:45
| 9 | 27 32 | 57 51 | 120/270 | 4:03
| 10 | 29 18 | 56 46 | 120/330 | 4:21
| 11 | 29 20 | 54 34 | 120/030 | 4:37
| 12 | 27 37 | 53 29 | 120/090 | 4:54
| 13 | 25 55 | 54 39 | 120/150 | 5:11
| |
Take off | Landing
St. Croix, USVI | 12:51 UTC
| St. Croix, USVI | 19:27 UTC
| |
Problems :
Pilots had problem with FMS #1 near end of flight.
Flight track |
Temperature and Moisture |
Wind and Atlitude |