 In their in-car explorers' talk, Catcher in the Sky, in-car scientists Christina McCluskey and chief pilot Scotty McClain talk about modern-day science, research, and aviation. I'm excited to share the research we've been doing over the Southern Ocean. We're looking at the clouds that are present in that region. They reflect a lot of solar radiation back to space, and so these clouds are very important for the global energy budget. We recently went into the field where we were probing these clouds with different instrumentation in collaboration with the research aviation facility here at NCAR. For my talk that's coming up with Christina, I'm going to talk about what it's like to be a pilot. I'm going to let you know how we interface with the scientists, and then I'm going to give you some insight that you probably don't have about how much work goes in to get ready for life. Then I'm going to show you some pretty cool pictures from all over the world, from some of the research we've done from Antarctica to Hawaii to the Midwest. We are living on an earth that is the only place in space that includes all three phases of water, and so when you look at a cloud and you think about all the physics that are going on, it's actually very complicated.