Part 27 - 'tis the season
This is it. The end is in sight… Well it would be if the sun ever rose this far north at this time of year 
Tusen takk for ølet @troll You do live in a rather spectacular part of the world (even if someone has stolen all your street lamps). If you ever feel like sweltering on Xmas day, you are more than welcome here.
But, time to get going and this is as much ‘daylight’ as I’m going to get.
I’m going to finish this in something that is easy to fly, especially when you let the AP do said flying for you.
Setting up my approach and I ran into a bit of a navigation glitch that sent the AP haywire? It was either @Deacon211 's South Pole aliens, or Santa didn’t want me flying too close to his village (c’mon, we all know he doesn’t actually live at the North pole)
With a bit of a ctrl-alt-del cheat I managed to set myself up on a 10NM approach and although it is as black as beelzebub’s backside with only lights to guide me in, managed to land… Quite nicely BTW. Maybe I need to do this more often 
Addendum
I had figured out by the time I got about halfway across the US that I had probably bitten off more than I could chew. This was definitely a challenge and keeping it ‘interesting’ by using a variety of aircraft helped, but didn’t help. If you know what I mean… Post-It notes with manifold/torque, RPM and TAS settings for take-off, ‘best cruise’ landing, etc plastered all over my desk so I could take a quick peek from under the G2. I did get them mixed up on more than one occaision 
I very nearly didn’t complete this year’s flight. Mainly due to a growing lack of motivation.
As easy as it would have been to call it quits though, this wouldn’t be the first time I have given yours truely a metaphorical slap upside the head and reminded myself - you wanted this dickhead, push on, dig deep, it’s only three weeks… a few more days of effort, a few more pilot handbooks to read.
But I didn’t give up and this time the only ‘injury’ was a numb arse from my simpit chair.
At least this time I made it.
So concludes a marathon of sprints.
My route for this year:
YCOM → YSBK → YBRK → YBCS → AYPY → AYNZ → Arr: PGUA / Dep: PGUM → RJTT → RJTY → RJAF → RJNT → Arr: Beach at Niigata / Dep: RJSN → RJSS → RJSK → RJCH → Arr: Bechevinka Inlet / Dep: UHPP → PADK → PACD (WPT/ALT) → PANC → PAYA → CYYJ → KOAK → Skywalker Ranch (WPT) → KSUU → KMSP → CYYR → BGBW → BIKF → EKVG → EGOV → EGFD → Mach Loop → EGFD → EGVN → Renault Graveyard (WPT) → EGXU → ENZV → Troll’s Balcony (WPT) → ENTC → ENSB
Which looked something like this
For a grand total of 16,800 NM + change
Last year I completed my second consecutive Mudspike holiday flight, which made it a habit. This year is three in a row, so it is now a tradition… One I will do my best to uphold.
On that note:
I’m going to have a whisky and then go looking for Iorek Byrnison, maybe he can guide me to Santa’s village 
God jul og godt nytt år
