Mission Summary
20141015I1 Aircraft 43RF
Ocean Winds flight

Aircraft Crew (43RF)
Aircraft CommanderJustin Kibbey
Co-pilotChris Kerns
Co-pilotScott Price
NavigatorTim Gallagher
Flight EngineerJoe Klippel
Flight EngineerChris Lalonde
Flight DirectorRich Henning
System EngineerDana Naeher
Data TechnicianTerry Lynch
AVAPSTodd Richards
MaintenanceLonnie Kregelka

Scientific Crew (43RF)
LPSPaul Chang (NESDIS)
IWRAPZorana Jelenak (NESDIS)
IWRAPSulieman Alweiss (NESDIS)
IWRAPJoe Sapp (NESDIS)

Mission Plan :

NOAA43 will conduct a NESDIS-tasked Ocean Winds mission into Hurricane Gonzalo. Takeoff is scheduled for 1200 UTC from MacDill AFB, FL and recover at St. Croix, USVI by 2100 UTC.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL 11:30 UTC St. Croix, USVI 17:30 UTC
Penetrations 1


Final track

1 dropsonde deployed and transmitted.

Mission Evaluation:

Problems:

Flight aborted due to illness.

Mission Data :

NetCDF file | 1 second data | serial data | SFMR data | serial | Flight Director's log | Flight Director's log

Page last updated Nov. 18, 2014
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