{"id":3778,"date":"2026-10-08T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:32:14","slug":"test-flights-were-productive-in-sector-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/2026\/10\/08\/test-flights-were-productive-in-sector-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Flights Were Productive in Sector 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salutations, trackers<\/a>! I am pleased to report that we crossed a threshold in going from 1,002,681 trackers in August to more than 2 million trackers now in October. For exact totals, please visit our Sector page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The test flights<\/a> in Sector 3<\/a> during the month of September were very productive for us. Not only did they bring a lot of new trackers to the sector<\/a> it provided training at every level, especially our sleigh<\/a> traffic controllers at the Regional Tracking Center<\/a> in Belgium.<\/p>\n

I feel more confident in where we are heading with Christmas still 11 weeks away. This could be a record breaking year in Sector 3.<\/p>\n

In reviewing where we stand with Elf Crash and with the team at Flight Command it is clear we need to stick to the direction Crash gave us<\/a><\/strong> last week.<\/p>\n

I AM asking that weather reports<\/a><\/strong> for Sector 3 bump up now to twice a week. That\u2019s about all I can see us needing to really focus on other than recruiting.<\/p>\n

Carry on, troops!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salutations, trackers! I am pleased to report that we crossed a threshold in going from 1,002,681 trackers in August to more than 2 million trackers now in October. For exact totals, please visit our Sector page. The test flights in Sector 3 during the month of September were very productive for us. Not only did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Test Flights Were Productive in Sector 3 | Santa Trackers","_seopress_titles_desc":"Having the test flights in Sector 3 during the month of September was very productive.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_adjet_no_auto_ads":false},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gneral-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santatrackers.net\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}