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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.
by 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 agoBut 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 agoThey 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)