Swiss glacier pilot on TV

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.

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