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 |
Guest | Rick Smith | unk |
Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190929N1 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
| 11:41 UTC
| Barbados, BWI
| 19:23 UTC
| Expendables
| 34 GPS sondes | 4 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: 29/1200Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD AZM | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | n mi deg | hr:min | ||||
1 | 15 00 | 54 00 | 0:48 | ||||
2 | 18 00 | 48 00 | 1:42 | ||||
3I | 19 17 | 47 37 | 1:54 | ||||
4I | 20 34 | 47 15 | 2:05 | ||||
5S | 21 51 | 46 52 | 270/210 | 2:16 | |||
6I | 22 51 | 45 22 | 2:31 | ||||
7S | 23 52 | 43 51 | 120/165 | 2:45 | |||
8I | 23 51 | 42 14 | 2:58 | ||||
9S | 23 51 | 40 37 | 240/120 | 3:10 | |||
10I | 24 42 | 41 09 | 3:19 | ||||
11I | 25 34 | 41 41 | 3:27 | ||||
12S | 26 25 | 42 13 | 120/075 | 3:35 | |||
13I | 27 25 | 42 11 | 3:44 | ||||
14I | 28 25 | 42 08 | 3:52 | ||||
15S | 29 26 | 42 06 | 240/030 | 4:01 | |||
16I | 28 56 | 43 02 | 4:09 | ||||
17I | 28 26 | 43 58 | 4:17 | ||||
18S | 27 56 | 44 54 | 120/345 | 4:25 | |||
19I | 27 59 | 46 00 | 4:34 | ||||
20I | 28 02 | 47 06 | 4:42 | ||||
21S | 28 04 | 48 13 | 240/300 | 4:50 | |||
22I | 27 15 | 47 37 | 4:59 | ||||
23I | 26 25 | 47 01 | 5:07 | ||||
24S | 25 35 | 46 25 | 120/255 | 5:15 | |||
25I | 24 29 | 46 31 | 5:25 | ||||
26I | 23 23 | 46 37 | 5:34 | ||||
27S | 22 17 | 46 42 | 270/210 | 5:43 |
Mission Evaluation / Problems :
Flight track |
Temperature and Moisture |
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