Posts Tagged ‘Aspen Airport’

This is a Gulfstream 450 business jet on a visual landing to Aspen, Colorado at night. The right half of the view is the pilot’s normal visual path to the runway during darkness—in other words….totally black except for a few lights bobbing around. The left side of the screen is the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) which paints the heat signature of the outside terrain for pilots so they can see at night as though it were daytime. FLIR Technology is a great addition to the cockpit of …

This is a Gulfstream 450 business jet on a visual landing to Aspen, Colorado at night. The right half of the view is the pilot’s normal visual path to the runway during darkness—in other words….totally black except for a few lights bobbing around. The left side of the screen is the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) which paints the heat signature of the outside terrain for pilots so they can see at night as though it were daytime. FLIR Technology is a great addition to the cockpit of …