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Video of an aircraft landing at the airfield: https://mobile.twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1366334553674178560 https://mobile.twitter.com/flightradar24/stat

• mzs 6y ago
  and liftoff: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4kfpxjDXM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4kfpxjDXM/
• mcguire 6y ago
  I hope the pilot could make out the runway better than I could.
  • capableweb 6y ago
    Absolutely. Not by looking out of the windows though, but because of the magnitude of instruments pilots have in front of them to "see" the world around them.
    • supernova87a 6y ago
      But I don't think that's fully correct -- my understanding was that the Antarctic runways do not have instrument precision approaches. GPS etc. gets you to the airfield approx. location, but the landing is done visually. Or am I recalling incorrectly? I seem to remember this from an Air & Space article or National Geographic or something similar.
      • briankelly 6y ago
        They have large metal triangles below the snow that instruments can see - more for getting the location and orientation of the runway itself. (Family friend works on constructing these runways among other things and I'm going off of memory here)