Greenland Landing

Hi Everyone,


Well the first portion of my ANG (Air National Guard) flights has come to an end.  We arrived in Kanger (Short for Kangerlussuaq, you can see why we shorten it to Kanger) this evening at approx 6:30 pm local.  The local time is 4 hours ahead of MT so it will take me a couple of days to adjust to the new time zone.


This time around I am staying at the KISS (Kangerlussuaq International Science Support) building.  I have uploaded a few photos over to my PICASA site from today's flights. I started the day waking up  in Clifton Park, NY at 4:15 AM ET and then getting on a bus at 5 AM.  Given that I am used to MT, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early.  We headed out to the ANG base and then waited for 4.5 hours to get on the plane and finally fly out.  We had one beaker who originally planned on arriving in Clifton Park last night just before midnight and had the flight canceled on him.  So, he flew in this morning.  He didn't arrive until 9:45 this morning and caused our flight to be delayed.

This delay caused us to change our flight schedule to the point of not stopping in Goose Bay Labrador.  Most of us ol'pros were upset to find out we weren't getting our free Tim Horton's ice cream this trip.  I had hoped to get off of the plane for a bit, but we came straight on and made it to Kanger in a little over 6 hours.

I will write more about Kanger tomorrow.

Have a good day.

Mike