A female Airbus Pilot wants to get her glacier certificate (in german & french):
GEO Reportage - Schweiz: Gletscherflieger, Faszination in Weiß - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
She has to do 250 (!) succesfull landings on 10 of the 26 official glacier spots in Switzerland:
Gebirgslandeplätze
Snippets from the film:
- in the begginning she lands at the Mönchsjoch-Alpine-Hut in 3600m
- Operations started in 1946 when a Ski-Fieseler Storch rescued the crew of a crashed US C-47.
- Until the 1970s helicopters were not able to match the high altitude performance of planes.
- Thousands have been rescued until today.
Unfortunately the famous pilot Hermann Geiger is not mentioned.
- this is the pilots association, small Pipers galore:
- gletscherflug.ch – Official Resource of the Swiss Glacier Pilots