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Santa has lodged his flight plan!

Airservices has allocated Santa the call sign of ‘SLEIGH RIDER ONE’ and has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) to warn all other aircraft flying on Christmas Eve to keep clear of Santa as he delivers presents to all the boys and girls.

Attachment: NOTAM 2018

If Santa starts at the International Date Line and works his way west, that would give him 24 hours plus say an extra 6 hours of darkness (he can't really deliver much before midnight) to circumnavigate the globe.

That means he will be flying solo, with no co-pilot, for roughly 30 continuous hours without a break (loading and unloading obviously doesn't count toward down-time)...

It's a wonder his commercial licence hasn't been revoked already!

Happy Holidays!
Andrew

https://ww1.jeppesen.com/documents/publ ... -chart.pdf

Santa Missed Approach plate