Christchurch Airport (NZCH) - McMurdo Ice-Runway (MZIR), Antarktic. RNZAF, Boeing 757-200
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:21 pmSuch flights actually took place in the Antarctic summer of 2009/2010 to clarify whether aircraft with conventional landing gear could land on the ice runway. C-5M Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and P-3 Orion also land there and in the meantime a commercial Airbus A319 was also there .
The flight itself was not such a big deal, except that the weather was foggy, you have to calibrate the altimeter more often and above 18. 000 ft you can get up to 1. 000 ft from the real altitude, where air traffic control is active. The whole flight is serviced from Christchurch except for the landing. So the add-on "Antarctica"; from Aerosoft makes sense. . . and now it's summer in Antarctica. . . https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Ice_Runway
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The flight itself was not such a big deal, except that the weather was foggy, you have to calibrate the altimeter more often and above 18. 000 ft you can get up to 1. 000 ft from the real altitude, where air traffic control is active. The whole flight is serviced from Christchurch except for the landing. So the add-on "Antarctica"; from Aerosoft makes sense. . . and now it's summer in Antarctica. . . https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Ice_Runway
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