Flight Command just issued an update for us and they would like a fresh Local Christmas Report from all areas of Sector 2.
The report can be found at this link.
We have had good steady reports the last couple of days. Please keep up the good work!
Several weeks ago we were alerted to the fact that Santa will be addressing the tracker elf community about Tracking Santa this year and that he wanted your questions. This is a reminder that there is still time to send in those questions.
Elf Crash will be in North Pole Chat before Christmas too and he wants to address some of those questions, especially if Santa doesn’t have time to address them all.
You can submit your questions at this link.
Thanks!
Flight Command does not feel like they have a good handle on landing zones set up for Santa in our sector.
My feedback to them is that I’m not sure how many of our trackers have a landing zone set up. It’s not a requirement.
But, if you DO have a landing zone you want Santa to use at your house or in your neighborhood, please send in a landing zone report as soon as you can with information that will be useful for Santa.
Flight Command did remind me that it is OKAY for trackers to use video or cameras in their landing zones for when Santa arrives. They ask if you do capture Santa landing or taking off that you share those images or videos with Flight Command for their records.
Thanks, elves!
North Pole Flight Command has informed me that sleigh sightings are possible in Sector 1 in the following areas over the next few days:
Tokyo
Wellington
Suva
Guam
Bering Straight
South China Sea
These are common air traffic corridors where staging locations are set for support of Santa’s flight. Some of these areas are waterways where ships of the North Pole Navy are anchored. Sleigh in the skies are possible 24 hours per day, according to flight schedules we have received from Flight Command.
If you happen to see a sleigh in flight please try to capture video or pictures and submit a Sleigh Sighting report.
Thanks.
Trackers of Sector 1 – things are definitely picking up. I need to know who’s working and who is not right now. Please update your Elf Status as soon as you can.
I strong urge you as well to become familiar with all our tracker reports. I think we’re going to be sending in a few public observance reports, air traffic reports, and local Christmas reports in the next few weeks.
Don’t forget the weekly weather report.
Flight Command is requesting – rather insistently and urgently — that trackers in our northern areas please send in updated Weather Reports right away. This directly has to do with flights supporting the Kringle Plan.
What are northern areas? Just about any area that can get snow at this time of year. So, Siberia, Northern Russia, parts of Northern China, etc. Areas such as India, Thailand, etc don’t need to worry.
From the sounds of it, we can expect a lot of these kinds of requests over the next couple of weeks.
Please check in daily.
Hello trackers in Europe and Africa,
North Pole Flight Command is asking for an updated Local Christmas Report from our sector. I’m not sure why, but let’s get it to them.
Like Sector 5, we can report very active new tracker elf signups over the past week. Welcome to all of our new trackers! Please go to Elf University to learn and let me know if you have any questions.
Like the other supervisors, I was in the meeting yesterday on the phone with Elf Crash and Elf Roger Star. I am not confident yet that we will be seeing either the test flights or extra sleighs that are part of the Kringle Plan in Europe and Africa. I am hoping to meet with Elf Z today who might be able to give me specifics for our sector.
Please stand by for more news.
Thanks!
We just posted the news at SantaUpdate.com about Thanksgiving and it immediately triggered a request from North Pole Flight Command.
This is for all trackers in every sector:
PLEASE SUBMIT A DAILY WEATHER REPORT, INCLUDING AT LEAST A THREE-DAY FORECAST, FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH.
This is where you can find the weather report.
We can expect to see a lot of sleighs in the skies for the next week. Elves will be moving all over the world in order to get home for Thanksgiving. With the weather being forecast in the extreme at the North Pole, they will be looking to give elves a little more time to get home in between weather events. While North Pole Flight Command is monitoring the weather at the North Pole, they need reports from everywhere else to help these elves return home for Thanksgiving.
Just as we do with Santa on Christmas Eve, our reports now can help keep these elves safe.
Please plan to do a DAILY weather report from your area between now and the Sunday following Thanksgiving.
If you have questions feel free to ask them in the comments below.
About a month ago I posted a request of a Local Christmas Report from tracker elves around the world. The response to that request was very good.
Four weeks since I made that request we know a little more about the state of Christmas around the world. What you reported has raised some concerns at North Pole Flight Command and with Santa Claus.
After a lot of meetings this week, some Zoom calls with Santa, and discussing things with the Elf Supervisors, I am asking, on behalf of Santa, for all tracker elves to step up at this time and do some “above and beyond the call of duty” kind of things right now.
First, we need you to do that Local Christmas Report as soon as you can. We need to see if things are the same or if things have changed.
Second, we would like all tracker elves — North Pole Tracker Elves, Junior Tracker Elves and Freelance Tracker Elves — to please submit a Public Observance Report as soon as you can.
Please understand the difference between these reports. It was reported via the Elf Supervisors that some wayward elves have taken upon themselves to use this report in the wrong way. (They were using it to “snitch” on others and “report them to the naughty list”, which is silly because there is NO naughty list).
When Santa sends trackers out to observe that’s what they are doing. They are watching, not spying. You’re not looking to see anything wrong. You’re just looking and reporting on what you see. Santa wants honesty. But he doesn’t want an elf anywhere thinking they have the right to opine on someone’s behavior.
With the Public Observance Report Santa is not looking for information about one person. He wants to know about large groups of people where you’re reporting from.
I would also tell you that Santa has big concerns about the next month of operations and even bigger concerns about his flight this year. He is asking for all tracker elves to RECRUIT as many new elves as you possibly can. North Pole Flight Command agrees that more eyes out there working to track Santa for Santa are going to be useful when Santa launches.
If you are a new elf, and there are many, we ask that you go to Elf University and learn as much as you can. Then go to the Elf Wall and ask questions of the elves that are there. Please do the standard reports for your area: Roof Report, Chimney Inspection and Landing Zone Report. Be sending in Weather Reports at least weekly.
This is our critical period. We need tracker elves to increase their activity as soon as possible.
After waiting for what felt like forever in hearing back from Elf Crash and Santa, I can now officially announce we have a new Sector Lead in Sector 5.
Elf NotJack, who has several years experience tracking Santa for Santa, will be our sector lead as he gear up for this season. She will be helping new elves, promoting the recruitment of elves and sharing news on social media, and helping me to get the word out on news and events that affect tracker elves in Sector 5.
I’m very excited to have someone so capable. She’s smart, she’s savvy, she’s alert, aware and dedicated to the cause of Santa Claus. Girl power in Sector 5!!!
(Sorry, guys. I’m just teasing).
Both Santa and Elf Crash heartily endorsed Elf NotJack. Santa said this was a very wise choice and he’s excited to have so much experience at the lead in Sector 5. Elf Crash said he could endorse my selection of Elf NotJack “with both hands high in the air”.
It is a great moment in Sector 5. Please join me in welcoming her to her new elf job.
Hi Gang,
Right now we are kind of in a holding pattern with Flight Command. I’ve asked them for clear direction of how we can help them and they keep telling me to just wait.
All the sleigh flight activity that’s not related to the test flights of Santa’s sleigh so far seems to be in Canada – most specifically in the Yukon, which is pretty sparsely populated. That’s also a land of a lot of lumber and it is told to me that wood is coming from there to supply Santa’s Workshop.
That is a place and that is a product that moves regardless of the weather. They do have plenty of early winter weather there and Flight Command knows all about it.
If that changes, I’ll let you know.
But for now, Sector 5 is going to focus on our regular work.
So – if you haven’t done roof reports and chimney inspections yet please close that up. And keep the weekly weather reports coming from your area.
Thanks, Elves!
It is only the end of September but I feel compelled to issue an alert for all Santa Trackers world wide.
There is a crisis in Santa’s Workshop and elves from nearly every department at the North Pole are mobilizing to help in the effort. We are equally called upon to join in the effort.
Starting TODAY, I am meeting via Zoom with Elf Supervisors, who are all at their stations at the Regional Tracking Centers. We are going through the latest instructions from North Pole Flight Command.
You can expect some specific instructions coming from each of them over the course of the next couple of days.
In addition, I have asked, and I believe he has already posted on the Elf Wall, for Elf Harold Star to remind you about the North Pole Chat already scheduled at SantaUpdate.com for this Sunday at 3pm EDT.
I hope to have new information and instruction that I can share at that time. As usual, chat recaps will be posted.
I do not yet have details to share at this time but I suspect most of what might be required of us will be added and specific weather reports for certain areas. I believe special missions to route needed supplies to the North Pole are being devised at this time and our instructions will be related to those missions.
What part, if any, Santa will play in these events are unknown. I can tell you, however, that is he very hands on with this whole process and that we can expect to hear more from him about this situation in the days and weeks ahead.
For now, my hope for each of you is that you will:
Thanks!
