Air Traffic Report Needed
Greetings Trackers of Sector 2 –
We need an air traffic report from tracker who can provide one, especially in the following areas:
- Bangladesh
- Taipei
- Hong Kong
- Beijing
- Jakarta
Thank you for your efforts.
Heat Concerns in South America
Hola Trackers!
We have just had a reminder from the Weather Department at North Pole Flight Command about the heat and humidity index in South America, particularly in Argentina, Peru and Brazil.
They are asking anyone with extended landing zones for Santa to leave out extra water for the reindeer.
You would want to act on that RIGHT NOW, even though Santa hasn’t even left the North Pole. That’s because all the sleighs and reindeer coming south out of the North Pole for Operation Airlift are active now and many are in our skies. Those teams need access to water.
Thank you for your efforts. It’s going well so far!
If You Cannot Send in a Report
Attention all Trackers,
Over the course of the past hour we have seen a rush of Internet traffic that is starting to affect the performance of all Official North Pole websites. With millions of trackers around the world and billions of believers, this is not unusual or unanticipated.
We are closely monitoring the situation and while we are confident we can keep all sites active this year please be advised that in the hours where we get closer to Santa’s launch we are going to experience heavy traffic.
If any of the sites go down, they will be back fairly quickly.
After Santa launches, please be advised that if you ever experience trouble reporting or getting a hold of your elf supervisor you are authorized to email any critical information you feel Santa will need to trackerreports@santatrackers.net.
North Pole Flight Command and the North Pole Post Office are prepared to handle email through this tracker-elf-only email address and get your information shared with the appropriate party.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Weather and Flooding Concerns
Fellow Trackers,
In Sector 3 we have some fresh concerns for rain, snow, and possible flooding in areas of Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine.
Truth be told, the map looks kind of calm compared to past Christmas Eve tracking. That being said, conditions change rapidly so please keep an eye on local weather and report anything you think might be a concern particularly as we get closer to Santa being in our Sector.
We could use more eyes in Spain and in Sweden.
Thanks.
Show Us Your Tracking Station
With about 12 hours to go until Santa launches we are already in peak mode here in Sector 1. Things are going amazingly well so far.
Some of us were just talking about how great it would be if trackers would post up pictures on the Elf Wall of themselves tracking Santa or using the website or in front of their Christmas trees or something today. This would be for all sectors, not just ours here in the old #1. We want to see happy elves tracking Santa for Santa!
Can you do that for us?
Long Day Ahead
Fellow Trackers,
I know it’s fun and exciting but I just got off the phone with Elf Z and it’s very clear we have a long road ahead today and tomorrow. At the moment, things are fairly calm in Sector 5.
So let’s get some things out of the way early here.
First of all, we have a lot of really new trackers and some of them aren’t paying attention. I’ve been getting messages, emergency reports, and just flat out weird stuff about seeing Santa on roofs and such. I’ve had Moe on speed dial trying to get these elements under control and to keep them off the Elf Wall. Some are posting they they are “elf teachers” or “head elf” or other such goofiness. We just can’t have that.
If you’re a new elf, please review the news. Be current. At this moment we’re about 19 hours or so away from Santa’s launch. He’s not anywhere right now but in bed. We are HOURS and HOURS away from tracking him.
We do have Operation Airlift going and there are sleighs everywhere. We need to be watching out for them. Weather is the big thing and we have a lot of that going on.
Follow our experienced elves.
I will only post if I need to. Follow the news on the radio, pull up the Flight Command website and stay current there. There’s plenty of news to consume. If you are up on it what I might post in the hours ahead will make sense.
We’re at almost 27 million trackers in Sector 5 at the moment, a great number. But we’re pretty green. I need all eyes on me and I need all elves to stay on course.
Thanks.
Stocking Mail Test
For some reason our sector has been singled out to perform a test of stocking mail over the next several hours. All available tracker elves in Sector 5, between right now and 8pm EST tonight, if you could write or print this code:
XW4821WWX
….on a piece of paper and place it in your Christmas stocking with your Elf name and PIN Code on it, North Pole Flight Command and the North Pole Post Office will greatly appreciate it.
Stocking mail, if you did not know, is an advanced technology that allows believers to message Santa directly. The technology is not perfect. But the North Pole has used it over the past several years quite effectively in limited applications. Santa himself usually authorizes Stocking Mail on Christmas Eve.
Santa has authorized this test of the system. But it’s only for tracker elves and it is only for Sector 5. And it is only a test. Santa will not actually see these. They are working on some things for Stocking Mail and they need willing elves who will do this between right now and later tonight.
I thank you in advance for your help with this and I will let you know what they learn.
Needs on the West Coast
Hi elves!
Operation Airlift is really having a rough go on the West Coast in the USA and Canada. The SS Jingle Bell is somewhere there in the Pacific – last I heard was off the coast of Oregon – so they are well aware of the weather issues.
But that coastal corridor down from the Yukon in the north all the way to Baja California is a pretty major thoroughfare for air traffic, both commercial/military traffic and now sleigh traffic.
They need constant LOCAL weather reports if possible in the following areas:
- Vancouver, BC
- Tacoma, Washington
- Portland, Oregon
- The following locations in California
- Fairfield, Calfornia
- Eureka, California
- Redding, California
- Chico, California
- Truckee, California
- Stockton, California
- Bakersfield, California
- Tehachapi, California
- Carson, California
- Ontario, California
- Twenty Nine Palms, California
- San Ysidro, California
- Acapulco, Mexico
- Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
It would be nice, is possible, to get air traffic reports from each of those above areas as well. We need these today, tomorrow (Monday) and Tuesday – at least one per day.
Thanks to those who can help!
Using the Pipeline to Santa Report
Among the emergency reports given to us we have one in particular that is being abused rather regularly, especially by Junior Tracker elves: the Pipeline to Santa Report.
The purpose of this report is to get information straight to Santa, hopefully when he is on the sleigh. It would be used only in emergency situations when you have something that has come up locally. It would be for information Santa would need “right now” — for situations where there is no time to route it through North Pole Flight Command or through your Elf Supervisor.
Unfortunately, we have had a number of elves not follow the directions on the report and have instead used to to report everything from their Elf on the Shelf not moving or performing to wish lists and weather reports. Those elves have now been banned and are no longer elves.
As such, I have disabled the report for all Freelance and Junior Tracker elves. If you have emergency information at this point going forward you will have to use the other reports or message your Elf Supervisor.
For North Pole Tracker elves, you’re fine to continue to use the Pipeline to Santa Report as long as you keep it within the guideline.
Santa, your Elf Supervisor, and all at North Pole Flight Command are very busy. Wasting their time by not following directions is not a good thing. We hope all elves stay within the instructions we have been given.
Thanks!
Critical Update from Flight Command
My Fellow Trackers,
I am humbled to take on my new duties with you as Associate Director of Santa Trackers and I address you now as a first step in my new role. Elf Crash Murphy, my boss and your boss, has asked me to step up in communicating to you just what is happening both in our world of tracking Santa for Santa and with information available to me at North Pole Flight Command.
Please be advised that my function is not news, it is direction. Elf Meg Nogg, Elf Harold Star, Elf Ed Zachary, Elf Ernest, Elf Frank Myrrh, and Elf Trixie will continue in their duties publishing official news from North Pole Flight Command, Santa Update and here at Santa Trackers.
Elf Crash asked me to convey to you that his time will be limited over the next few days as we get closer to Santa’s launch. Since I am nearly always near a computer, I will convey information and direction to you when Elf Crash can not.
Therefore, here is a critical update from North Pole Flight Command that is as current as I can make it.
We have lost over 40% of our staff at Flight Command to Santa’s Workshop. The crisis in Santa’s workshop has to take priority over all other efforts at this time. That makes our staffing at Flight Command extremely challenged at THE most important moments of Operation Merry Christmas. Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command, is keeping things in motion with help from several command vessels of the North Pole Navy, and our good Elf Supervisors in the Regional Tracking Centers.
Elf Crash asked you all to step up the other day to help. Many of you have checked in early. Most are sending in updated weather reports. So far, things are going fine under the modified plans in place.
Here are some new things for you to know:
- Elf Moe is working to keep the Elf Community here at SantaTrackers.net and at SantaUpdate.com safe from bad elements. You have likely seen them here and there pop up on the Elf Wall. I’ve asked him to tightened things up a bit. We had some silly incursions last night and we just don’t need that now. You know who all the important elves are. Someone new who shows up claiming to an elf teacher or having elf powers or magic or other strange abilities are people you should report immediately. Elf Moe is working to get ahead of them but occasionally one will slip through the cracks. Feel free to use that report feature and that will remove them until Elf Moe and his team can get to it. Please be aware that Elf Moe has NO intention of taking punitive steps against any known elf already in the Elf Community. You are safe.
- Sector 1 – Elf Randi reports that our numbers in Sector 1 are growing and that no new reports are needed at this time. She does say that flight corridors for sleighs of Operation Airlift will include the skies over Japan, the Philippines and coastal areas of China over the next two days. They could be tapering off on December 24th at the Operation Air Lift effort has been very effective for the sector.
- Sector 2 – Elf Clif in Asia and the Middle East says Operation Airlift flights into the sector are focusing on India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan. Flights are coming both from the North Pole and from North Pole Navy carriers in the Indian Ocean.
- Sector 3 – Elf Rolf says the sleigh activity for Operation Airlift has been insane, especially in the skies of Eastern Europe and the south of Africa. That activity, according to Elf Buck Sanchez at the North Pole Sleigh Port, is expected to actually increase. Keep eyes on the skies in London, Paris, Tripoli, Athens, and Berlin. Poland could see a lot of activity on Tuesday in particular. Rolf says he’d feel better if there were more weather reports from the UK, Sweden and Iceland.
- Sector 4 – Elf Tubby reports that sleigh activity is strong, especially in the skies of Brazil, Ecuador, and all islands of the Caribbean. There are a lot of military avionics in Venezuela at this time and none of it has to do with the North Pole. We’ve got some trackers there and we’re concerned for them. But we cannot impose any requests on them at this time. Santa’s own activity in Venezuela is in question at this time.
- Sector 5 – this remains easily the most active area with sleigh flights. The east coast of Canada, the west coast of Mexico, and the Rocky Mountain region of the USA are your major air corridors for Operation Airlift at this time. Flights are expected to double EACH DAY until Wednesday, when it may explode even more. Weather reports, constantly sent, is the word here. Especially on the California and Oregon Coast over the next 48 hours and into the end of next week.
Big debates are happening in Flight Command right now about Santa’s flight plan. Many want to deliver because of issues in Santa’s workshop and weather concerns in various places.
Santa has already vehemently insisted there will be NO launch delays this year and he is vowing to deliver on-time in every sector. Whether or not Santa will change his mind isn’t something I can speak to, but I know several key elves are presenting many alternatives to Santa at this time.
Please feel free to ask any questions you have below or on the Elf Wall. Thanks!
Elf Z Promoted to Associate Director
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Elf Z of North Pole Flight Command as Associate Director of Santa Trackers. He will report to Elf Crash Murphy and will assist him in all duties.
Elf Z has been working special projects at North Pole Flight Command, with a special emphasis on AI. His most ambitious project has been the development of the very popular feature at SantaUpdate.com known as ElfBot.
Elf Z has also been somewhat notorious in the Elf Community at SantaTrackers.net for feeding inside information from Flight Command at times to the Elf Wall. Now we can say that calling is quite official.
While he will continue to be stationed at North Pole Flight Command he takes up his duty as Associate Director immediately. With Elf Crash Murphy being engaged with his North Pole Radio News duties, especially in the lead up to Santa’s launch, tracker elves at SantaTrackers.net may expect Elf Z to provide official news and direction.
Elf Z’s work has been greatly appreciated.
Tracker Elves Can Check-In
After discussion with the Elf Supervisors this evening we have determined to open check-in for tracker elves through Christmas Eve.
This process is an important part of tracking Santa for Santa. Your Elf Supervisors need to know who is working and who is not. I know I asked you to send in an Elf Status Report and I thank those of you who did it.
But due to the way the system works, if you know right now what your schedule will be up to when Santa is in flight, please check-in via this link.
If your schedule changes you can re-check-in with revisions at any time.
Please be aware that while I’m engaging this process now and I am going to change the schedule we’ve given to North Pole Flight Command and the News Department. They will still announce check-ins via the websites and the radio news because we know not everyone will see this notice here. You need only to check-in once, unless your schedule changes as previously noted.
If you are confused or have questions, please post them up to the Elf Wall or in the comments below.
Thank you!
