"john smith" wrote in message
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: In article ,
: "RST Engineering" wrote:
:
: Listening to stupidities flying in I can handle. Listening to someone die
: isn't on my list.
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: Jim, you don't "hear anyone dieing!"
: What you hear is how the FAA failed to share information with the pilots
: via ATIS and the FISKE controllers. This was why there was a meltdown in
: the Green Lake hold. For three hours, no one knew what was going on. Had
: the pilots and controllers been informed, many people probably would
: have headed for outlying airports to wait it out. Instead, there was a
: second near disaster on another runway after they started emptying the
: holding areas. This is a lesson learned situation.

Yea, I was flying in just about this time and there was no comment or anything on the ATIS to indicate the airport was
closed or at saturation. There were a lot of planes circling south of green lake, and the controller was saying the
airport was closed for another 20 minutes. I was passing north of Milwaukee about that time so I slowed it down a bit
(in a C-172, ok, a lot) to about 75 knots and kept on listening. As I got closer in I kept hearing that the airport was
closed for another 20 minutes, etc. I diverted to Fond Du Lac and picked up some gas and waited around for about 45
minutes. No-one there knew anything had happened either and the temporary tower knew nothing (or they weren't letting on
that they knew anything).

I popped back out just before the racers came in to Fond Du Lac, still listening, and they were still stacked up all
around green lake. I flew around it twice and we had a nice spacing so a string of us went on in towards fiske and
finally landed...