Mission Summary
20161006I1 Aircraft 43RF
Hurricane Matthew

Aircraft Crew (43RF)
Aircraft CommanderScott Price
Co-pilotPat Didier
Co-pilotDanny Rees
Co-pilotJacob Blaauboer
Flight EngineerPaul Darby
Flight EngineerHeystek
NavigatorPete Siegel
NavigatorRandy Mitchell
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Flight DirectorBrian Belson
Data TechnicianTerry Lynch
Data TechnicianDale Carpenter
Dropsonde OperatorMike Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorTodd Richards

Scientific Crew (43RF)
LPSLisa Bucci(HRD)
RadarHui Christophersen(HRD)
RadarGus Alaka(HRD)
DropsHeather Holback(HRD)
PhotoNick Komisarjevsky(AOML)

Mission Plan :


Proposed flight track

Final flight track

NOAA43 will fly a NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance mission into Hurricane Matthew to cover for G-IV which is down for repairs.

MISSION PLAN: MATTHEW
Prepared by Hurricane Research Division
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
October 04, 2016 3:55:20 PM
Aircraft: N43RF
Proposed takeoff: 5/0600Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 26 54 -79 550:22
2 27 57 -79 160:32
3 28 39 -78 000:43
4 30 00 -79 000:56
5 32 00 -79 001:13
6 32 00 -77 001:28
7 30 00 -77 001:44
8 28 24 -76 151:59
9 30 00 -75 002:15
10 32 00 -75 002:31
11 34 00 -75 002:48
12 34 00 -73 003:02
13 34 00 -71 003:17
14 32 00 -71 003:34
15 32 00 -73 003:49
16 30 00 -73 004:05
17 30 00 -71 004:20
18 30 00 -69 004:36
19 28 00 -69 004:52
20 28 00 -71 005:07
21 28 00 -73 005:23
22 27 12 -75 005:39
23 26 00 -74 425:50
24 26 00 -73 006:03
25 26 00 -71 006:18
26 24 18 -71 006:32
27 24 18 -73 006:48
28 24 18 -74 427:01
29 23 15 -75 327:12
30 22 41 -76 447:22
31 22 43 -78 027:33
32 23 21 -79 137:43
33 24 18 -80 067:54
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL 05:36 UTC MacDill AFB, FL 13:27 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Final flight track

Plot of raw High Density Obs

Plot of raw Flight Level winds

Plot of raw SFMR winds

Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data
1 second data | SFMR data | serial data


Page last updated Apr. 28, 2017
Return to Mission page.