Regional Tracking Center Update

Hi elves,

I understand some of you have been writing in to the North Pole very concerned about the Regional Tracking Center for Sector 5. I do have some news to share – a little.

First of all, you should know that for now we are taking up space at North Pole Flight Command and we are fully operational – as if we had our own Regional Tracking Center. We’re in good shape. It’s still very early in the season, of course, but just because we do not yet have an official location doesn’t mean we are not officially working. We are.

Elf Crash Murphy has been busy this week. He has been to Panama, Mexico, the United States and Canada. He has been meeting with several finalist locations and had held several Zoom calls with both Elf Roger Star and with Santa.

While there is nothing yet official to report I understand good progress has been made. Elf Crash will be back online soon to report on the situation personally.

Please understand that no matter when or where they place us we will be ready to move seamlessly from our temporary offices here at North Pole Flight Command – you won’t even notice it when that time does come.

That being said, right now, what we need from you more than anything are weather reports. It is active hurricane season and that is affecting the oceans of the the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico and all countries and island nations that have their shores in those waters.

It’s my understanding that there are presently two storms forming in the Atlantic that we need to keep an eye on.

The test flights of Santa’s sleigh are not presently even in our hemisphere but I don’t know if or when that will change. They’ve already changed course from the Middle East to somewhere now in Sector 2. They could come into our orbit within a day or two.

So if you live in the Caribbean or along the Gulf Coast or in the South Eastern USA keep those weather reports coming.

This is a quickly changing thing, as is normal for this time of year, in our area. Let’s help keep those reindeer and those pilots and those test flight sleighs SAFE!

When I know more of what’s going on with our Regional Tracking Center you elves will be the first to know.

Thank you for your hard work!

About this Elf: Elf Pinky

Elf Pinky was recruited from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1992 and has since served as an instructor in sleigh flight theory at the North Pole Institute of Aviation. She worked very hard to earn her elf credentials, working a second shift first as a tool repair technician in Santa’s workshop and then as an engineer in the Wrapping Department designing wrapping machines. Pinky in recent years was a recruiter and trainer of sleigh test pilots and flies under the call sign Barracuda. Last year she served as a Flight Operations Director and demonstrated outstanding judgment and maturity in her duties supervising more than 400 elves, pilots, reindeer handlers and sleigh freighters.