| Aircraft Commander | David Cowan |
| Co-pilot | Tanner Sims |
| Flight Director | Rich Henning |
| System Engineer | Terry Lynch |
| Data Technician | Leonard Miller |
| Dropsonde Operator | Charles Lynch |
| Dropsonde Operator | Jeff Hartberger |
| Dropsonde Scientist | Brittany Dahl | (HRD) |
 Proposed NOAA 49 track |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance missions around Hurricane Florence.
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National Hurricane Center September 12, 2018 6:10:13 PM Aircraft: N49RF Proposed takeoff: 13/1730Z | |||||||
| DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
| # | LAT | LON | Time | ||||
| deg min | deg min | hr:min | |||||
| 1 | 29 30 | -78 30 | 0:36 | ||||
| 2 | 30 35 | -77 10 | 0:49 | ||||
| 3 | 30 35 | -75 50 | 0:59 | ||||
| 4 | 31 09 | -74 38 | 1:09 | ||||
| 5 | 31 00 | -73 00 | 1:22 | ||||
| 6 | 32 12 | -73 48 | 1:33 | ||||
| 7 | 33 30 | -73 30 | 1:44 | ||||
| 8 | 33 30 | -72 00 | 1:55 | ||||
| 9 | 35 30 | -72 30 | 2:12 | ||||
| 10 | 35 00 | -70 30 | 2:28 | ||||
| 11 | 37 00 | -70 00 | 2:44 | ||||
| 12 | 37 00 | -72 00 | 2:59 | ||||
| 13 | 38 30 | -71 30 | 3:12 | ||||
| 14 | 40 30 | -72 00 | 3:29 | ||||
| 15 | 38 30 | -73 30 | 3:48 | ||||
| 16 | 37 00 | -73 30 | 4:00 | ||||
| 17 | 36 29 | -75 36 | 4:16 | ||||
| 18 | 35 51 | -74 38 | 4:25 | ||||
| 19 | 34 48 | -73 48 | 4:36 | ||||
| 20 | 34 34 | -75 26 | 4:48 | ||||
| 21 | 33 30 | -75 00 | 4:57 | ||||
| 22 | 32 26 | -75 26 | 5:07 | ||||
| 23 | 32 00 | -76 30 | 5:15 | ||||
| 24 | 32 26 | -77 34 | 5:24 | ||||
| 25 | 33 30 | -78 00 | 5:33 | ||||
| 26 | 31 09 | -78 22 | 5:53 | ||||
| 27 | 31 00 | -80 00 | 6:05 | ||||
Mission Summary :
| Take off | Landing
| Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 17:34 UTC
| Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 00:14 UTC
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Problems :
 Flight track |
 Temperature and Moisture |
 Wind and Atlitude |