Pilots will like this one… (Correction)

My bad- I didn’t backcheck the origin of the video.

This is an interesting little video clip shot from a T-44 with an F-16 HUD doing a night approach into Aspen, CO using FLIR (Forward Looking InfaRed). What you are seeing is a split image, on the left side of the screen is the FLIR shot, on the right is the actual night visibility. Sit back and enjoy!

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Pilots will like this one… (Correction) — 7 Comments

  1. THAT is cool. . I used to fly skiers in and out of Telluride in a turboprop. . . another scary airport.

    Sometimes it’s better you can’t see. I delivered a C-140 from a maintenance shop to a small airport with a sky dive center. By the time I got there, it was dark. No runway lights. I did a pass over the jump hangar, several cars came out with their lights on and lit up the runway. I spent the night with their female jump pilot, a college friend of mine. In the a.m., I walked out to see a 50 foot tall deck of logs from the local mill, right on the end of the runway that I’d squeeked over at night. Geez.

  2. Agreed about the not seeing…

    You ‘knew’ that 50 foot obstacle clearance was in the books for a reason… right???

    Reminds me of P-3 hill off Utapao. you were 1/4 mile horizontal and co-altitude on final. We did have one P-3 land with palm fronds in it’s gear…

  3. Ok. I have no clue what your correction meant or the lingo—still freakin’ cool, though!

  4. No F-16 (hot frontline fighter), T-44 is a Beechcraft King Air (think little twin engine turbo prop. The government uses them for training and test of new equipment for the go fasters (f-16 etc.)

    Scully probably has flown the King Airs

  5. Wow!

    I can see why folks don’t like to fly into Aspen at night. That is truly impressive.

    A long time before that lashup becomes affordable to us FLIB drivers, though..

  6. I guess with an altimeter close at hand to peek at and tell you actual height that FLIR is great! Too me though, looking at the left side only, it looked like we were at about A5 on a way high approach!! I kept waiting for some hard sliding to get down!