We'll be travelling through Christchurch airport soon, and wondered if there was anywhere that showed scheduled departure times of some of the Antarctic flights? Keen to see something a bit different take-off.
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They're fairly sporadic. And as far as I know no set schedule. And don't like giving hints as to when being military and all :/
At present we are mid-season, so the LC130s are doing runs back and forth as staff/freight calls. Given the 24hr daylight it's luck of the draw. I was out there yesterday and lucky enough to catch 2 of them returning back from the ice, one was about 1620, and the other just on 9pm
Today at 1400 a separate one has gone back
When the C17s are in and doing runs, we've worked out they tend to do a couple of locked in days during the week, and a 12hr turnaround. Often trying to get out by lunchtime so they are back about 2300-0100. Do narrows down the chance of catching them between 9-2. That is of course weather dependent (and none are in at present)
I run a receiver and capture to an SQL dbase, running queries to make pretty PHP pages. FROZN are heading out, NORTH are well, :) 
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