Reindeer Flight School in Sector 1

Exciting news!

North Pole Flight Command has just informed me that a Reindeer Flight School is scheduled to begin in our Sector November 1st. The school will operate until December 1st and is for rookie reindeer serving in Operation Merry Christmas for the first time.

All of these reindeer already know how to fly and they all fly very well. But the Flight School is to give them some experience in different weather conditions.

Reindeer Flight School will be based out of an area fairly close to Alice Springs, Australia. While the school will be based there at a remote reindeer ranch operated by the Reindeer Operations Department it isn’t expected that the reindeer will be there much.

The school will not be associated with the test flights of Santa’s sleigh.

But, the chances of seeing flying sleighs in Sector 1 are improved over this time frame because much of the time the reindeer in flight school will be pulling sleighs (to promote realism in their training).

There will be training sessions during the month of November in parts of Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines and Japan. A schedule of these training sessions and their exact dates will not be released due to security concerns.

About this Elf: Elf Randi Hume

Ms. Hume has worked for many years at the North Pole as a senior flight planner and associate test pilot. She brings many years of flight experience. Elf Randi will be supported by a staff of elves charged with tracking Santa and aiding in logistics of freight and reindeer movement in the assigned sector.