Pilot makes first NVG Antarctic landing

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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

Good question. And with the aircraft's landing lights on, the amount of
reflected light from the snow-flakes would normally overwhelm the goggles.
I know from personal experience that NVGs aren't that great when using
them in heavy rain and active illumination.



Which was pretty much what I was thinking.

Graham



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