When I was flying with the Navy Antarctic Development Squadron we never shut our Hercs down anywhere on the Antarctic continent except our base at McMurdo.  Same thing.
Anthony

      From: Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
 Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 5:50 AM
 Subject: Re: New diesel from VW
   
It use to be the same practice with the military cargo aircraft (Hercules) in the high Arctic (Alert) - the were kept running the entire time they were on the ground, because if you shut the engines down for more than a few minutes, it was a huge endeavour to get them restarted.

On 18-Nov-2014, at 20:50, John Rodgers wrote:

> I use to work the North Slope in ALASKA  and the diesels the were never
> shut down. In winter if one shut down, there was no starting it again. They
> ran continually all winter. They don't burn much fuel at idle, yet it was
> enough to keep them running.
> 
> John
>