Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly just operated a pretty awesome flight to Antarctica…
Continue reading: Cool: Hi Fly Airbus A340 Flies To Antarctica
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
I have not had time to watch the video but do planes use special winter/snow tires, similar to cars and other vehicles?
Having flown to McMurdo Station on a Royal NZ Air Force 757 and out on a USAF C-17, I can say that almost everything on the planes needs to be specially configured for Antarctica, fuel, hydraulic fluid, and probably the tires too although I do not know that for sure. They were lucky they had a beautiful day, often the flights have to turn around due to weather changing after they have left the home airfield.
Congratulation Captain for you and all your TEAM in this historic flight in the legendary A 340-300.
It will be a pleasure to know the details oft planning , weights , performances , etc..
I fly as a PIC over the antártica from SCEL to YMML in a B 787-9 , and is an amazing flight over the South Pole.
‘...despite the plane’s “SOL” registration...’ I didn’t understand the reference to SOL here. Why would an operation being successfully completed depend on not being ‘SOL’?
This is not the first A340 to touch down on this land, sorry. There is a military A340 that visits Antarctica frequently, along with other aircraft types, and can be viewed on a very interesting flight tracker for military worldwide (that also shows commercial movements). Not my favorite tracker, but it shows very interesting flight stats that you cannot see on the two regular trackers everyone likes to flock to.
I have not had time to watch the video but do planes use special winter/snow tires, similar to cars and other vehicles?
What tourists were aboard? When was this flight being offered to tourists?
Having flown to McMurdo Station on a Royal NZ Air Force 757 and out on a USAF C-17, I can say that almost everything on the planes needs to be specially configured for Antarctica, fuel, hydraulic fluid, and probably the tires too although I do not know that for sure. They were lucky they had a beautiful day, often the flights have to turn around due to weather changing after they have left the home airfield.
Congratulation Captain for you and all your TEAM in this historic flight in the legendary A 340-300.
It will be a pleasure to know the details oft planning , weights , performances , etc..
I fly as a PIC over the antártica from SCEL to YMML in a B 787-9 , and is an amazing flight over the South Pole.
‘...despite the plane’s “SOL” registration...’ I didn’t understand the reference to SOL here. Why would an operation being successfully completed depend on not being ‘SOL’?
This is not the first A340 to touch down on this land, sorry. There is a military A340 that visits Antarctica frequently, along with other aircraft types, and can be viewed on a very interesting flight tracker for military worldwide (that also shows commercial movements). Not my favorite tracker, but it shows very interesting flight stats that you cannot see on the two regular trackers everyone likes to flock to.