| 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.
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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 :
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