Pilot makes first NVG Antarctic landing

TacAN wrote:
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From CNN - A U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in the
dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that could lead
to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen continent during
its dark winter months, officials said Friday.

The C-17 Globemaster cargo airplane landed in a driving snowstorm on the
10-kilometer (six mile) ice runway at the U.S. Antarctic research center
at McMurdo Station, after months of practice runs by pilots using the
goggles.


Can NVG's see through a driving snow storm?

Graham



Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:58:41 -0500, Dan wrote:

Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Three snowflakes.

On Sep 14, 12:58*am, Dan wrote:

* *Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Have a look at any of the cameras on the ice during a storm.
Most of the snow comes in horizontally

george wrote:
On Sep 14, 12:58 am, Dan wrote:

Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Have a look at any of the cameras on the ice during a storm.
Most of the snow comes in horizontally


That's windblown ice. Antarctica's airmass is very dry, very little
snowfall. Most of the place has had about 20 centimeters of snow over
the past 50 years.

Snow or ice can be blinding no matter the direction.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

"Dan" wrote in message
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george wrote:
On Sep 14, 12:58 am, Dan wrote:

Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Have a look at any of the cameras on the ice during a storm.
Most of the snow comes in horizontally


That's windblown ice. Antarctica's airmass is very dry, very little
snowfall. Most of the place has had about 20 centimeters of snow over the
past 50 years.


True on average of course but the coastal regions get around 40cm
while the plateau gets 5cm or so.

Keith