End of Flight Period 3

Here we are one week and one day after getting to Summit Camp, we are finally to the Inter Flight Period.  After having the ANG ground all of the planes in Greenland over the weekend due to landing gear box issues, they had one plane fly from Scotia NY, to Kanger, spend the night and then fly to Summit this morning.  What a relief it is to finally have most of the people here leave.  Up until this morning, we had 35 people on station.  There were people every where, the old crew tired of being here, the PFS management watching over everything and the new crew trying to find their own way of doing things.  We had 25 people leave this morning and 4 new people show up.  It is almost quiet now in the Big House.  There is laughing and joking and quite a different feeling for all of us.  I am really going to like this crew.

My work has been mostly documenting all of the problems and trying to figure out how things are put together.  Most of the documents I have found on station are not accurate to what I actually see on the tower.  Today, I found that what I thought was the main instrument reporting the Relative Humidity was in fact the spare and was jury rigged to boot.  I will be tearing all this out in the next day or so and rebuilding it to spec.

The food this year is good ol' comfort food.  Our cook is a gentleman by the name of Frances and he has yet to disappoint any of us with his cooking.  Tonight we had 5 different kinds of pizza, couscous, a salad and blood oranges for dessert.  The rest of the meals have been along the same lines.

Have a good week.