Antarctica: Rothera Part 1

[Charl]

Aerosoft has produced a scenery for this, and I spent some time looking around and learning. There are dozens of screenshots arising, and there will be a Part 2 etc as the culling proceeds.

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Rothera Research Station is the largest British Antarctic facility.
It is situated on Adelaide Island to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,860km south of the Falkland Islands.
In summer, max temperature is around +2 Deg C and the population peaks at just over 100 people. During the winter months, from April to mid-October, a 22-strong team continues the science work and maintains Rothera’s infrastructure.
Temperatures go down to – 20 Deg C and the sea freezes over.

First look: summertime, and the sea ice has retreated, leaving thousands of bergs to mess with surface navigation.

Watch on youtube.com

Then an airborne look, just to see if you can.
You can.

[Naki]

Very cool..literally!

[Aharon]

Very very cool

Makes me wonder if C-130s can handle this short runway

Regards,

Aharon

[Splitpin]

Very very cool

Makes me wonder if C-130s can handle this short runway

Regards,

Aharon

Yes a C-130 could land, but with limited fuel and a light payload (900 meter runway) Which would limit it to emergency tasking or similar.
Fully loaded would be to heavy ....would interesting to test that in Sim.
Great post Charl.

[Charl]

Yes I will try all sorts, and I suspect it will be a seasonal thing, too.
Meantime, all you aero specialists:
Google Earth shows these planes, one might be a Twotter, what on earth is the other?

[Naki]

Maybe a Basler BT 67 ...converted DC 3 with turboprop and different wing shape

[Charl]

That would work.

The GE image distorts the tailplane slightly, not sure that gets modified.

[Splitpin]

I reckon your right Naki , its an odd angle and appears to be a bit long , but I'll go with the Basler.
They have used a Dash 7 in the past as well.

[Charl]

Went looking, found this, a different world of flying

https://www.baslerturbo.com/