The interior of the military aircraft has not much in common with an ordinary aircraft. No stewardesses, no windows, no fancy cutlery and no in-flight videos for the next 8 hours. To make up for this, you can just walk into the cockpit and have a chat to the pilots. The touchdown on the 2 metre thick floating ice runway between Ross island and the Transantarctic Mountains is a bit weird and unexpected due to the lack of windows.