Awesome! I bet that was a once in a lifetime experience!!

Yeah it is pretty comfortable! Lots of leg room but only a couple.of small windows

@@WildKiwiAdventurer a 5 hour flight with packed lunch and any hot beverage? ( take it there's no in flight service being non civilian aircraft )

We are definitely talking legroom.

Silly question: Since C17 is a cargo plane, was there a traffic jam at the available lavatory or lavatories?

Your welcome! Yes I feel very lucky to go to this place, especially for work

Yes its not too far! Far enough but easy enough.

8 hours on a herc

15 more to come about Antarctica now that I am back in New Zealand and can post them!

Haha! Hope you get to some day

Your welcome! Thank you so much!

That's awesome!! I wonder if that is the plane that we take people out to visit the crash site of. There is a constellation plane that crashed at Pegasus airstrip once and we take people out to see it for day trips from the Bases.

@andy green Corrected then.

Thank you!

Thanks!

@reverse thrust you shut up

Yes I hope you get the chance! You would like it

thank you!

thank you!

Nice one! Yes they are cool planes! The first year I went down on an Airbus A319 and it was a stunning flight because it had windows, but the C17 was probably the more real experice. The Ski Herc is the most real experience however because that take 3 extra hours and has a high chance of turning around and you fly 8 hours and land back in Christchurch where you started!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you!

Kiwis and Americans. We almost have nothing to do with the Aussies because they go from Hobart and there a probably 2000km away to their closest station. NZ and the US work very closely together

@@WildKiwiAdventurer Thanks for your reply, appreciated.

Haha! Sometimes it is very hard to breath because the air is too cold and your throat closes up

I also was a bit weirded out by the narrators non-eye blinking, and completely still upper face - almost Parkinson-esque, but hey, minor detail.

@@NinoNiemanThe1st Whats wrong with that? i am in an environment that i am comfortable in

@@WildKiwiAdventurer No LOL there's nothing wrong with it. Not being used to cold weather, I think I'd be blinking continuously in that cold!

@@NinoNiemanThe1st haha!

thank you! if you ever get the chance to go, take it!

Thank you!

Thank you! I hope all is well in Germany for you!

Thank you!

Your welcome!

You are welcome! Hope it helped a little

Tnx

Thanks!

Obrigado!

Cheers! Im working on it! Hard to be a KZfaqr in Antarctica where its blocked on our computers

@@WildKiwiAdventurer is there no internet connection in Antarctica?

@@carelessorin6461 there is internet connection but the bandwidth is smaller than the standard house and it needs to be shared across at least 30 computers and costs thousands of dollars. So it's slow and KZfaq and uploading would make it completly unusable. Now I'm not in Antarctica and have great internet

Thank you!

Awesome! Im happy to have you as a subscriber!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you!

Thanks! 15 more to come soon now that I am back in NZ

Thank you!

Such a cool plane! I didnt actually get to go on it last year so was quite keen to go on the C17 this season

thanks for watching!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks Annette!

Thank you!

Thank you!

You can do it!

Yeah the C17 is the better plane as it can carry more but for the warmest part of the season they can't land wheel planes and therefore fly the LC130 ski planes. They also do all the south pole resupplies too

You should be fine, there's no wifi generally for mcmurdo residents in summer as far as I know. But there public computers everyone can use. Just don't plan on uploading and downloading anything. That's all I know, I was at Scott base and that's different

...you will be lucky if they still go...sorry...quarantines....

These days, rather then the well-documented 'thousand yard stare' as a symptom of PTSD, you'd suspect Parkinson's Disease (but the guy is generally too young), or MG (myasthaenia gravis). Overall though, I think this guy just displays NZ South Island toughness, although I get that people can find the non-blinking somewhat odd or different. My money is on the latter - these people really are tough, and built differently when it comes to extreme cold! Or perhaps he's just really concentrating on his video, and suppressed his blink-reflex in the cold to finish it.

bahaha yes it has to be something like that! very different to normal safety announcements!

Good luck, I hope you get the chance to

Haha OK maybe…

Hey! I bet winter at pole was an experience you will never forget. They still land all the planes I gliding the C17 on the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice is plenty think enough. They don't land them on the sea ice any more just because of logistics on maintaining the sea ice runway each year. The C17 needs a minimum of 1.8m thick of sea ice to land on. We still het that every year, but they just focus on the one runway now for wheels planes and one for skiplanes.

The Australian Antarctive Division also runs a chartered Airbus A319 service from Hobart to the Wilkins ice runway during the summer months. It's a modified aircraft with extra tank space so it can tanker the return fuel (don't need to refuel in Antarctica). There are a few KZfaq videos on this, and they're fascinating. Fortunately it only takes service personnel down there, no tourists to keep the environment as pristine as possible.

They won’t let see that the world is flat

Was the world flat

Antarctica is a continent

For Canadians yes it is, but not for Kiwis, that is colder than the coldest day new Zealand has ever recorded.

I am Canadian🇨🇦..but my kiwis still freeze in the winter.....

still cold

@@EternalNico1 -45 is cold! It got down to -46 C or -51 F in January 2020 where I lived. Went to the gym that morning to.🥶

What! A pallet of C17 parts? I didnt know you could buy such things, What did you do with them, i would love to know!

That's crazy! Did you get the registration from somewhere on the video? I hope it's all still working well 😉

Hi there, it all depends what skills and qualifications you have. Look at the Antarctic New Zealand website and role descriptions and start applying!

Awesome plane!

@@WildKiwiAdventurer The C-17 sure is an amazing aircraft. And I'd trust very few pilots apart from US military to fly them properly to such a difficult, but amazing place to land. The overhead announcements were hilarious: they sounded like a bog-standard 737 flying between different cities, but with such a dramatic twist given where this aircraft was going!

I'll admit the background music isn't great, sounding like every other 2018 video music track, but I'd hope most people could see past the irrelevant soundtrack and focus on the content. Who would let a soundtrack 'ruin' a video with so much interesting information? Answer: people who watch too much television.

I have been to Antarctica 5 times, I work there in tourism and science.

Awesome! I was in india a couple of years ago

Haha theres a reason for that ;)

WildKiwiAdventurer - myself and Andy have been mates for years; I guess your from Auckland then. 😉 I’m from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

@@rogerhargreaves2272 Im actually from the south of NZ but to an outsider we all sound pretty much the same!

WildKiwiAdventurer - you do bro. I went to Dunedin, just to see what was there, I went on the train, the whole experience was unbelievable. I’m so lucky to have visited your country. Also climbed the Cathedral tower in Christchurch before the earthquake. Keep safe bro. RgY ✌️😎💙💯

@@rogerhargreaves2272 Crazy! You were lucky to climb the tower, it is not there anymore!

Wikipedia informed me that "The C-17 is powered by four Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 turbofan engines, which are based on the commercial Pratt and Whitney PW2040 used on the Boeing 757. Each engine is rated at 40,400 lbf (180 kN) of thrust." So yeah, all I know is they work really well haha!

@@WildKiwiAdventurer The C-17 is from McChord AFB Tacoma Washington State. Right next to where I live. :-) The Green stripe on the tail indicates McChord.

Nice one! They are great planes

Awesome! Do you see them flying a lot?

@@WildKiwiAdventurer They fly a circuitous pattern all day, every day, plus they send a squadron to Christ Church to support Antarctica for a good part of the year, plus the always support operations in SW Asia and elswhere, it's an awesome/ beautiful bird! Thx!!!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yes we are very lucky to get this oppotunity

Yes just scientists of people like my self supporting the scientists.

Those elderly people are scientists studying the Roswell UFO when it crashed, now the air force is flying that UFO down in Antarctica and those elderly people are the ones who made it work. Why else would elderly people be down there? Sit in a warm quonset hut, drinking coffee all day studying penguin poop? I'm sure there's tons of young college aged scientists for this. These people have special knowledge and work for the government.

@@TSemasFl sorry to disappoint but they are the ones sitting in a hut watching penguins. I have seen them myself. One guy has been doing it for 40 years!

@@TSemasFl when acting like a know-it-all goes wrong 😂😂

Thank you! There are very few comercial flights, this one was for members of NSF or Antarctica New Zealand for staff going to work at the bases down there. Look up Quark expeditions and Antarctic Logistics. They do fligths but they are much more expencive than any normal flight.

Yes you got it haha! I get quite a few comments from them

@@WildKiwiAdventurer I'd like to know that too!

@@SergioDector The flight proved earth is flat. The pilot was not actively adjusting the nose downward to go around earths curvature. A pretty darn dramatic proof, i'd say.........

@@ronalddump4061 lol

Of course it all depends where you come from doesn't it!

Haha yeah there are some places colder. I had -40 to -50 C the year before down in Antarctica. For us its super cold because in New Zealand it has never gone below about -20 C

Yeah you have it cold up there too. we had -42 a few days later and we were out camping.

What do you want to research?

@@WildKiwiAdventurer I like to research on all the polar explorers and how Antarctica came to be plus I like to study the Antarctic Weather and Southern lights

Maybe the glasses are to keep your eyes from freezing....the cold wind would really hurt your eyes I think....

Thanks for your comment! Glasses: Party to do with the wind but mostly to do with the extreme level of UV light from the ozone hole above Antarctica. If you dont wear eye wear outside for like 20 mins in snowy areas you will get snow blind. And that hurts!! And its bad for you long term as well. The snow slowly turns to ice as it gets deeper. Around base its just one metre or two. On the Ross Ice shelf the Snow/ice can be up to 700m deep and on the continent it can be a few kilometers thick

Food is mostly standard frozen and dry food. Bought down by ship once a year. Usually out of date by the time we get to eating it.

I worked at Scott Base as a field trainer

Its a very cool place! In many ways...

I worked there with Science. It is not possible to buy ticket on this plane. You can go by ship from South America for about 6000 to 30,000USD

@@WildKiwiAdventurer oh thx

Hello! We flew from Christchurch New Zealand down to McMurdo sound.

This flight is for science, so it is not possible to buy a ticket. Look up Quark expeditions or ALE. They have flights to Antarctica. They are in the many thousands of dollars.

Why do 3rd world people always ask this stuff without doing any research first? It's like call-center spamming: do no work yourself, spam a hundred people, and see if they respond. He's not a tour guide. Do your own research, but be aware, you'll never land there on a plane (these are always official/government trips for the bases). The tourist trips (that only touch the tips of Antarctica from its shores) are probably way too expensive for you (starting at about USD $10k and moving up), but there are plenty of travel agencies that manage this - google and call them up, but be aware, the cost is likely to be prohibitive for most Sri Lankans. It ain't cheap for westerners as well, consequently the 'tours' are full of people in their 60s who can afford $10K to $50K merely to 'set foot' on Antarctica, not go anywhere near the South Pole (if that's your thing).

This was apart of my job working at ScottBase, you cant actually buy a ticket on this plane. Look up Antarctic logistics for a price for a flight to Antarctica

No there are not. As far as I know there's only one person who has ever come down to this part of antarctica just to live and they stayed one year in a small hut and then went back to Australia. It's too hard to live here

Very loud and noisy, you really want to wear some ear protection to be comfortable.