spoke to someone on one of these planes, lieutenant commander josh rainenberg. lieutenant commander, i understand you have just flown through the eye wall of idalia. tell me what you saw. yes, sir, we just did. and right now on the north side of the storm. we re about 200 miles west of tampa. and we saw mostly what we expected. we saw an intensifying hurricane. and we were able to find the center of the storm successfully. and right now we re loitering north, getting ready to go back into the eye of the storm. what s it like to fly through the eye, the eye wall of a hurricane, which we all know is the most intense, most powerful part? it can be a little bit unpredictable. and at times scary. but as a pilot, we re trained to do certain things inside the aircraft to make it perform in the way we want it to.