From the Cockpit

Flying research missions requires a lot of skill, stamina, and the ability to adapt quickly to unusual weather conditions. Our two pilots, Bo LeMay and Lee Baker, are doing a fantastic job maneuvering the Gulfstream-V through OTREC's three flight boxes, allowing the scientists to deploy dropsondes and take the radar measurements that will help understand what controls deep convection and rainfall in the tropical east Pacific and the southwest Caribbean.

Right after the second research flight, Bo LeMay took a few minutes to talk to me about how he became a research pilot, and about his favorite place to fly (it's not the tropics!).

In the cockpit of the G-V: Bo LeMay (left) and Lee Baker