En route to the South Pole

En route to the South Pole

2014-12-10

Inbound to the South Pole station, the navigator sits in the cockpit behind the pilot and co-pilot. Day-to-day operations use the array of fixed instruments and a Toughbook with specialized navigation software. Though paper charts are at hand, the ultimate dependency is still technological: the United States Air Force is sufficiently confident that their GPS satellites will never be compromised that their air navigators have not been taught celestial navigation since the 1990s.

En route to the South Pole

En route to the South Pole

2014-12-10

Inbound to the South Pole station, the navigator sits in the cockpit behind the pilot and co-pilot. Day-to-day operations use the array of fixed instruments and a Toughbook with specialized navigation software. Though paper charts are at hand, the ultimate dependency is still technological: the United States Air Force is sufficiently confident that their GPS satellites will never be compromised that their air navigators have not been taught celestial navigation since the 1990s.