| Aircraft Commander | Moyers |
| Co-pilot | Fritzler |
| Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
| Flight Director | Rich Henning |
| System Engineer | Gabe DeFeo |
| Data Technician | James Warnecke |
| Dropsonde Operator | Underwood |
| Dropsonde Operator | Joe Greene |
| Guest | Chris Melter (USF) |
 Original Proposed NOAA 49 track |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Maria.
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Prepared by the National Hurricane Center September 24, 2017 3:13:17 PM Aircraft: N49RF Proposed takeoff: 25/1730Z | |||||||
| DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
| # | LAT | LON | Time | ||||
| deg min | deg min | hr:min | |||||
| 1 | 30 00 | -80 00 | 0:27 | ||||
| 2 | 32 00 | -78 00 | 0:50 | ||||
| 3 | 31 54 | -76 18 | 1:02 | ||||
| 4 | 33 12 | -76 00 | 1:13 | ||||
| 5 | 34 15 | -75 10 | 1:24 | ||||
| 6 | 34 49 | -73 58 | 1:34 | ||||
| 7 | 37 00 | -74 00 | 1:52 | ||||
| 8 | 39 00 | -72 00 | 2:14 | ||||
| 9 | 43 00 | -69 00 | 2:53 | ||||
| 10 | 40 00 | -69 00 | 3:17 | ||||
| 11 | 38 00 | -69 00 | 3:34 | ||||
| 12 | 36 00 | -69 00 | 3:50 | ||||
| 13 | 36 00 | -71 00 | 4:05 | ||||
| 14 | 34 49 | -72 38 | 4:20 | ||||
| 15 | 34 15 | -71 26 | 4:30 | ||||
| 16 | 33 12 | -70 36 | 4:41 | ||||
| 17 | 34 00 | -68 00 | 5:01 | ||||
| 18 | 34 00 | -66 00 | 5:16 | ||||
| 19 | 31 50 | -66 40 | 5:35 | ||||
| 20 | 31 30 | -68 30 | 5:49 | ||||
| 21 | 31 54 | -70 18 | 6:03 | ||||
| 22 | 30 36 | -70 36 | 6:14 | ||||
| 23 | 29 33 | -71 26 | 6:24 | ||||
| 24 | 28 59 | -72 38 | 6:34 | ||||
| 25 | 28 59 | -73 58 | 6:45 | ||||
| 26 | 29 33 | -75 10 | 6:55 | ||||
| 27 | 30 36 | -76 00 | 7:06 | ||||
| 28 | 28 00 | -76 00 | 7:27 | ||||
| 29 | 27 00 | -78 00 | 7:44 | ||||
| 30 | 29 00 | -78 00 | 8:01 | ||||
Mission Summary :
| Take off | Landing
| Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 17:36 UTC
| Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 01:11 UTC
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Problems :
Aircraft experienced a cabin pressurization problem at point 22. Sci/ops ended at that point and NOAA49 returned to KLAL.
 Flight track |
 Temperature and Moisture |
 Wind and Atlitude |