Today, Matt Pesce from the Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and I flew in the Royal Canadian Air Force Vampire 5 (A), a twin otter with bubble windows on either side. The floe chosen for the camp broke up over Monday night and the first night out crew recovered what they could on Tuesday. So Matt and I were on a reconnaissance flight to find more potential floes for camp. We visited pre-identified floes Foxtrot, Golf, and Mike and noted potential floes on routes between the pre-identified floes. Of the floes we flew over, Golf (B) seemed to be the best option, with Mike (C) then Foxtrot following. Golf had multiple runwy orientations available on the first year ice adjacent to the thicker ice. Mike had only one runway orientation, and that was not oriented into the predominant wind direction. Foxtrot did not have very favorable runway ice around the thicker ice floe.
