Aircraft arrives Cambridge airport.

Unloading aircraft, removing ferry tank etc.

Cut apertures in new camera bay plate and remounted DSLR.

Installing equipment into aircraft.

EMC/EMI check signed off. Alan, Russ move aircraft from Cambridge to Duxford.

Twin Otter departs Duxford with Mark and Liam.

Twin Otter overnights Trondheim

Twin Otter arrives Longyearbyen

Russ and Jeremy depart UK, overnight Oslo.

Russ, Jeremy, Sine arrive Longyearbyen. Airport passes issued. Food shop. Hire van and luggage moving. Move into house.

Our house is the nearest yellow one to the right of the mobile phone mast at the bottom of the slope.

At airport. Cargo shipment opened and sorted. Sorting Jeremy e-mail problems.

Moved aircraft to easily access ground power. Spoke with Helo operators to Lance.

Re-installed radiometers that were removed for transit flight.

Firearms hired. Aircraft safety briefs complete.

Polar Bear awareness / Rifle course completed. All good shots.

Testing instruments on aircraft. All appear working.

Checking data and planning Lance grid overflights.

Trial / Calibration flight over town and runway.

No fly day for Mark and Liam. Ground survey of instrument calibration building - the recycling depot.

A walk up the hill behind our house. There is a postbox on the cairn as part of Svalbard Turn Topptrimmen- Rute 9.

Hoping for survey over the Norwegian ship Lance for N-ICE2015 as they are now back moored in position in the ice but snow and low cloud in Longyearbyen prevented that today.

Flight over the Lance followed by flight to Station Nord. Most data over ice ok. Computer playing up on both flights, but rush to get to Nord with good weather.

Flight from Station Nord to the North. Main Lidar computer playing up. Not a lot of lidar data. Computer pulled out after flight. Some interface cards possibly prone to vibration.

Canadian C130 visit in evening. Temperature around -20 C.

Successful flight to South and East of Nord. Computer behaved. Good Data.

Return survey from Nord to Longyearbyen. Good data we think.

Weather marginal at Longyearbyen and over Lance so no flight. Looks like we will miss the BBC by a day. Evening spent packing cargo and paperwork as cargo office shut for several days, maybe due to the ski marathon.

Overflight and grid of sea ice around Lance. Final flight of the campaign.

Removed radiometers and finished cargo. Flight planning. Returned firearms and NPI items.

Longyearbyen busy with skiers from the marathon.

Hire car returned. Team left Longyearbyen.
Aircraft flew to Tromso with Mark, Liam, Russ. Stopped there as weather poor in Helsinki.

Aircraft flew Tromso to Malmi airport, Helsinki Finland. Cleared customs. Hired car. Moved to Hotel apartments Espoo.

Unloading aircraft, equipment test. Flight planning with Skyvan pilot.

Tania and Henriette arrive. Instrument checks. Aircraft safety training. Rain.
Evening project meeting. Other aircraft has instrument problems. Still submitting details for flight approval. Moved to Holiday Inn.

Liam fixing strobe. On hold awaiting instrument test results for Skyvan. Instrument looking better. Now a problem with the Skyvan.

Waiting for the engineer to come back off holiday to look at the Skyvan. Public holiday in Finland. Skyvan fixed. Awaiting certification and find pilot.

Weather Poor today, so no flyight. Worked up meta data and ICE-ARC flight tracks.
Started on GPS processing.

Blue sky and sunshine this morning. Not quite the same by late evening, but flight completed successfully without wandering into Russian airspace. Time to pack.

Transit flight Mark, Liam, Russ. Helsinki Malmi to Cambridge via refuel Malmo, Sweden.