Aircraft Commander | Kristie Twining |
Co-pilot | Rebecca Waddington |
Co-pilot | Norman |
Flight Director | Rich Henning |
Flight Director | James Carpenter |
System Engineer | James Warnecke |
Data Technician | Delgado |
AVAPS | Leonard Miller |
AVAPS | Akshar Patel |
Dropsonde | Jason Dunion | HRD |
Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190928N1 mission for Lorenzo |
Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20190928N1 mission for Lorenzo |
Mission Plan :
NOAA49 will fly a NESDIS Satellite Validation and Diurnal Cycle mission around Hurricane Lorenzo.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Barbados, BWI
| 11:55 UTC
| Barbados, BWI
| 19:39 UTC
| Expendables
| 34 GPS sondes | 1 bad |
NOAA49 flew a successful NESDIS-tasked Satellite Validation and Diurnal Cycle mission around Hurricane Lorenzo coordinated with a 1613Z overpass with the NOAA-20 satellite.
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division September 19, 2019 5:44:54 PM Aircraft: N49RF Proposed takeoff: 28/1200Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD AZM | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | n mi deg | hr:min | ||||
1 | 17 30 | 53 00 | 1:05 | ||||
2I | 18 20 | 51 47 | 1:17 | ||||
3I | 19 09 | 50 35 | 1:29 | ||||
4S | 19 59 | 49 22 | 330/240 | 1:40 | |||
5I | 20 55 | 48 25 | 1:52 | ||||
6I | 21 51 | 47 27 | 2:02 | ||||
7S | 22 48 | 46 30 | 120/270 | 2:13 | |||
8I | 23 31 | 47 17 | 2:22 | ||||
9I | 24 14 | 48 04 | 2:30 | ||||
10I | 24 56 | 48 51 | 2:39 | ||||
11S | 25 39 | 49 38 | 330/300 | 2:47 | |||
12I | 25 25 | 48 36 | 2:56 | ||||
13I | 25 11 | 47 34 | 3:04 | ||||
14I | 24 56 | 46 32 | 3:11 | ||||
15S | 24 42 | 45 30 | 120/330 | 3:19 | |||
16I | 25 49 | 45 09 | 3:30 | ||||
17I | 26 55 | 44 47 | 3:39 | ||||
18S | 28 02 | 44 26 | 300/360 | 3:49 | |||
19I | 26 58 | 44 05 | 3:59 | ||||
20I | 25 55 | 43 44 | 4:08 | ||||
21S | 24 51 | 43 22 | 120/030 | 4:17 | |||
22S | 24 09 | 42 35 | 120/060 | 4:26 | |||
23S | 23 10 | 42 19 | 120/090 | 4:35 | |||
24S | 22 12 | 42 38 | 120/120 | 4:44 | |||
25S | 21 29 | 43 26 | 120/150 | 4:54 | |||
26I | 20 08 | 43 59 | 5:07 | ||||
27S | 18 47 | 44 32 | 270/180 | 5:18 | |||
28I | 19 44 | 44 54 | 5:28 | ||||
29I | 20 40 | 45 16 | 5:36 | ||||
30S | 21 37 | 45 38 | 120/210 | 5:44 | |||
31I | 20 57 | 46 25 | 5:53 | ||||
32I | 20 17 | 47 13 | 6:01 | ||||
33S | 19 36 | 48 00 | 300/220 | 6:09 |
Mission Evaluation / Problems :
Flight track |
Temperature and Moisture |
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