CRs East Antarctica 2005/2006 Personal Journal

The office!!!! The view from my office Field repairs BL and sundog TD BL and sundog TD Talos and sundog BL and the sundog Sea ice

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Most people I have emailed when I have been down here are thinking that my average day consists of getting up
at 11am having breakfast, watching some DVDs, going to look at some penguins and been feed gourmet food.  
This is far from the truth.  The mag window for the area dictates what time the day starts at Talos when the weather
was good we flew 2 survey flights below is my typical day:
- Got up at 7am to 7:30am to start warming the plane up (inside the plane -15°C) outside -20°C.
- At 8:30am to 9am the racks are warm enough to start to turn on equipment and test the survey equipment is fully
   functional
- 9am start gravity still reading.  And check the base stations
- 10am switch from ground power to aircraft power and go survey flying (either me or Tom we take it in turns)
   If not flying survey we do flight following (inc. weather reporting)
- At about 3:30pm BL returns
- A quick meal and toilet break then ready to go again.
- 4pm BL departs for second survey flight of the day (as before either me or Tom depending on turn, apparently I am the first
   engineer for sometime to fly survey my predecessors must of been crazy not to want to do so! its fun an breaks up the day)
- BL returns at about 9pm
- 3 hours of checking radar data and uploading data to our field network
- Crawl into bed for some sleep and pleasant dreams ready for another day of the same weather depending
Plus on top of this if thing have broken some hours fixing.