Okay no livestream but we’ll do a quick tour of #NOAA43 (Miss Piggy) before we head to #Isaias.

She’s been flying storms since 1977 and has plenty of scientific gizmos onboard so we can collect more data to keep you and your neighbors safe.

Up front we’ve got the flight station where the pilots and flight engineers focus on keeping us in the air. Propeller planes can respond more quickly to updrafts and downdrafts to keep us flying steady. We try to keep the blade tips painted, but a storm is like a pressure washer.

Behind them sits the flight director, our onboard meteorologist, who coordinates between what the scientists want to see and what the pilots will feel is safe. They spend a lot of time looking at our onboard radars.

Radar display is from Florence two years ago.

Across from them is our navigator, who helps communicate on the radios and helps the flight director determine best tracks through the storm.

Further back you have the science and data stations where on a typical non-pandemic flight we’d have scientists sit and look at data as it comes in, like from our cloud physics pylon on the wing and our tail Doppler radar.

Then you have the data station, where every bit of information travels through to get off the aircraft.