Steele was amused by miss Lamarr's orders "All right boys the cap'n says ta take 'er back into the clouds until we are 180 miles out.....then ta ascend ta 5000 feet. got it?" He was again looking over the charts and various instruments trying to maintain his bearings and to keep the ship on course. He was relaxed to some degree since he wasn't on a small ship. After crashing his Valient back in the millitary he's been a bit nervous about small vessles.