Mission Summary
20190916H1 Aircraft 42RF
Ocean Winds

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderNate Kahn
Co-pilotJohn Rossi
Co-pilotDean Legidakes
Flight EngineerPaul Darby
NavigatorBrian Richards
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
Flight DirectorAshley Lundry
System EngineerDana Naeher
Data TechnicianMac McAllister
AVAPSJames Warnecke

Science crew (42RF)
LPSSim AbersonHRD
DropsondeTrey AlveyHRD
RadarLisa BucciHRD
LPSPaul ChangNESDIS
ObserverJoe SappNESDIS
ObserverZorana JelinakNESDIS
GuestAlan Hough

Science crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190916H1 mission for Td09
Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20190916H1 mission for Td09

Mission Plan :

NOAA42 will conduct a NESDIS-tasked Ocean Winds experiment into Hurricane Humberto.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL 17:44 UTC Linder_Lakeland, FL 00:06 UTC
Expendables 18 GPS sondes
2 bad

TDR MISSION PLAN: humberto
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
Sept. 15, 2019 12:15 PM EDT
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 16/1800Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZMON Time
deg min deg min deg nm hr:min
1S30 1278 08 90/2700:46
2S30 1274 40 90/0901:32
3S31 4276 24 90/3602:04
4S28 4276 24 90/1802:50

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | 1 second data
LPS log | Drop log | Radar log |

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