South Pole Landing Video at Pegasus Field Antarctica

Video Courtesy FAA. Shows a view of landing on Runway 33 at Pegasus Field, Antarctica. The video was taken from an FAA Challenger doing flight checks on the instrument system.

http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/index.cfm?newsId=57487

From Wikipedia: Pegasus Field (ICAO: NZPG) is the farthest south of McMurdo Station's three frozen airstrips. Located near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, this white ice runway is used for wheeled aircraft which can not land at the busier Williams Field runway, which is snow instead of the hard ice like at Pegasus Field.

Pegasus Field is named after a C-121 Lockheed Constellation christened "Pegasus" which is still visible in the snow there. On October 8, 1970, the "Pegasus" crashed in bad weather. No one on board was injured. However, the plane remains and gives this place its name.

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[AlcatrazT2]

Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 601-3R . Not too sure about the outside temperature. Mean winter temp's range from -40 to -94 F and mean summer temp's range from -5 to -31 F.

[cattleman6420012000]

This is a fantastic video!! I love flying. This is quite something !!! I imagine that the time at the airport would be very limited, as the engines would freeze up.

[WWWarcticmonkeysCOM]

antarctica who caes this shit

[columbusmozart]

@cattleman6420012000

The engines are usually kept running while there. It's cold, but not any colder than when up in the air 30,000 ft.

[columbusmozart]

@Shreytherockstar1

Yes....well, to be accurate, an iceway.

[columbusmozart]

@lass1234

No, the iceway is grooved, and it's fairly long.

[columbusmozart]

Respond to this video...

Oh, and the minimums listed were:

S-TAC 2G: 9570-1 Cat C.

CIRCLING: N/A (you aren't allowed to circle, due to the no-fly clean area zone)

[columbusmozart]

@BeechSundowner

Funny you should ask, as I have the actual (probably a little out of date) charts as used by the 109th. It lists a 10NM circle MSA at 12000. The runway's elev is 9301. Approach on my chart is using TACAM SKIWAY 2G. It's an old chart (1990) and they probably have GPS approaches now.

[columbusmozart]

@MrDanieldb

Runway 02/20 (grid degrees, not magnetic) is about 12,000 ft (ice) . No ILS, uses NDB, Radar or GPS approaches.

[MrDanieldb]

How long is this runway. Does it have ILS?

[jacka3000]

and what about the 4, 20, 20, 10  it only said 50

[mauricej74]

very cool, thanks for sharing