Video of the Week: FLIR Demo into Aspen, Colorado

Editorial Staff

Sunday, March 04, 2007 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

This article features a "Video of the Week" showcasing a Gulfstream performing a night visual landing in Aspen, Colorado.
The video prominently demonstrates Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) technology, contrasting its clear, heat-signature view with the obscured normal night vision.
FLIR allows pilots to "see at night as though it were daytime," significantly enhancing visibility and simplifying night VFR operations.
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Our latest “Video of the Week” comes to us from an AVweb reader who writes:

For those that know what FLIR is, I have a video you need to see. This is [a Gulfstream] … 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. The left side of the screen is the Forward Looking Infrared [FLIR], which paints the heat signature of the outside terrain for pilots so we can see at night as though it were daytime. … You have to love FLIR … takes all the fun out of night VFR!

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Originally posted by YouTube user betterdigitalphotos and submitted to us by M. Schulhof.

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