N.Z. trains Aust, crews
PA Wellington New Zealand is training Australian Air Force crews in Antarctic flying and survival skills in preparation for the start of flights into the Australian base at Casey early next year. A senior New Zealand representative in Antarctica, Mr David Geddes, said 24 members of the Royal Australian Air Force stayed at the New Zealand station at Scott Base in the last month while they completed a two-day snow survival course. The course is run jointly by the New Zealand and United States Antarctic Research Programme. Royal New Zealand Air Force staff have also accompanied Australian crews on flights from Christchurch to the McMurdo Station ice runway in preparation for the trips to Casey. Mr Geddes said space on Australian C-130 aircraft had been made available to the New Zea-land-United States programme. The Australians intend to fly wheeled aircraft from Hobart in Australia to Casey. Mr Geddes said the Australian crews had gone through the same survival course as |he New Zealand programme’s staff. During the two-day course participants learn general snow and ice skills, including the construction of snow shelters, travel on glaciers and crevasse extraction.
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