On 11 Jun 2005 06:57:13 -0700, wrote:

Airport closes just before sunset at about 1900. Period. DO NOT try to
extricate yourself from a parking spot and find a runway in the dark
with literally thousands of people lounging, walking, relaxing or
milling about. It is an accident waiting to happen. We used to try and
park aircraft in the dark in the bad old days, and it was not worth the
risk to anyone. If you want to leave, wait until the am and leave when
the airport reopens just after sunrise.

Regards,
Ryan
Madison, WI
Co-Chairman, EAA Flight Line Operations

Excellent point, the thought of taxiing a plane in the dark with all
those people milling around is a nightmare just thinking about it!

Shuttling in and out of OSH daily by air to a hotel in another city
doesn't sound that effiecient. I've done it at Lakeland, where I
would fly over to Tampa to get a hotel. I'd just get in the takeoff
line right after the airshow ended. And make sure to get back before
it started the next day. But they don't get so full that they have to
turn airplanes away like Oshkosh has in the past. But attendance has
been waneing lately, so maybe that won't be the case. Well, we all
know Lakeland's attendance is waneing, but I'm not so sure about OSH.