Hi Richard
Thank you for sharing this terrific video with us! Merry Christmas to you and all your friends Bernard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Frawley Sent: Monday, 9 December 2013 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Aus-soaring] Implementing RNP in Queenstown N Z From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Ivan Millington Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2013 6:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SCGC Members] No Room For Error : Implementing RNP in Queenstown N Z Hi All, Some inspiring video to watch.................... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7mxmFCw-Dig#t=31 A pilot landing at the inland airport of Queenstown, New Zealand, recently put a GoPro camera in his cockpit, recorded in stunning HD the last minutes of his flight, and posted it on YouTube. The video, which has since gone viral, shows the plane skirting sunlit mountain peaks and forbidding valleys, and piercing a thick blanket of clouds above the runway. The landing would be all but impossible if the pilot were not relying on a digital GPS-based navigation system, called Required Navigation Performance (RNP), first designed by Alaska Airlines pilot Steve Fulton and developed by GE Aviation. Fulton, who now works for GE Aviation, knows Queenstown well. He served as the test director and rode in the jump seat with Qantas crews when GE rolled out the system at the airport in 2004. Fulton said that flying in the mountains, and the nerve-wracking night landings in Alaska that gave him the inspiration for RNP. What would happen on a day like this before RNP? Queenstown-bound flights would have been diverted, frequently to Invercargill, which is on the coast south of Queenstown. Passengers would then have to board a bus for a 2 hour 15 minute ride back north to Queenstown. Regards Ivan Millington -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Southern Cross Gliding Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/southern-cross-gliding-club. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. _______________________________________________ Members mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hvgc.com.au/listinfo.cgi/members-hvgc.com.au
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