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I'm working as a volunteer park ranger in denali national park to get a behind the scenes at how the park service works. i'm doing something i never thought i'd do in my life. i walk into this. get ready to go to a glacier. when's the last time you said that? >> okay, everybody strapped in? all right. let's go flying. >> luckily, got me in case something goes wrong. i'm here. >> here we go. >> since climate change is one of the biggest threats to the stability of our national parks, i'm going to the top of the glacier to see it firsthand. >> so right now, we are flying on a plane between these...

Park to get a behind the scenes loom 5 -- lock at how our park service works. i'm doing something i never thought i'd do in my life. i walk into this. getting ready to go to a glacier. when's the last time you said that? >> okay, everybody strapped in? all right. let's go flying. >> luckily, got me in case something goes wrong. i'm here. >> here we go. ♪ >> since climate change is one of the biggest threats to the stability of our national parks, i'm going to the top of the glacier to see it firsthand. >> so right now, we are flying on a plane between these two gigantic mountain ranges. you ...

But still flying in the same system as the airliners using air traffic control in exactly the same manner. flaps at 50, new transponder at vfr. it's good. >> clear to alpha, golf, charley. >> charlie is taxiing right now. we're headed off to the north and west out of college park. let's do it. >> okay. everything is in the green. we're looking for about 70 knots and will go a little faster today, and here we go. let's go flying. just off college park. the system is a 1950s architecture based on ground-based radar, spinning antennas on the ground. radar by definition has a latent

>> charlie victor is taxiing right now for a departure on runway one-five and will be headed off to the north and west out of college park. let's do it. okay. everything's in the green. we're looking for about 70 knots. we'll go a little faster today. and here we go. let's go flying. charlie victor just off college park. the system is a 1950s architecture based on ground-based radar, spinning antennas on the ground. radar by definition has a lag to it because it takes a certain amount of time for that antenna to spin around. about 12 seconds. in today's day and age, satellite technology faa is...