"Jose" wrote:

Reading all these posts I'm not sure why people go to Oshkosh in the first
place, especially with Sun'n'Fun as an alternative. It simply makes more
sense to me that after a hard Northeastern winter, a peek at spring by
going to Florida in May (or so) sounds like just the ticket.

If you live in the Deep South, you are sick to death of summer by the end of
July. The idea of a few days away from the unrelenting steam bath is
another incentive to go to Osh. It's a real bummer when it turns hot and
humid like it did this year or 2001 when it was over 100 for 3 days. Some
years it's lovely, mild weather at Airventure. It NEVER is in Mobile this
time of year. The only "break" you're liable to get here is a hurricane.

I went last year and it rained once (though it was cooler than I had
expected). Why would people want to pick the hottest month in the year
and to go a known heat wave with thunderstorms instead?

Most years are not that bad.

It's a serious question for those who have been to both.

April is a goofy month for weather. Seems like there are more years when
IMC traps a lot of people trying to get to or from SnF. I've seen the
Mobile airports loaded with stranded SnF airplanes more than once.

OSH is a bit more centrally located, too.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM