("john smith" wrote)
Please take a few minutes and complete the questionaire at

http://www.airventure.org/atc/

Understanding Air Traffic Control at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh


For those involved in opening Sunday's (Need-To-Know) morning information
blackout, here's the biggie...

https://secure.eaa.org/airventure/atc_feedback.html
Feedback to ATC

We all figured out what went wrong that first Sunday morning. Nobody relayed
any information about a crash on the field ...to the arriving pilots!

Now, what does that have to do with me being carded for beer purchases, all
week, at OSH?

Plenty.

Adult decision making has be replaced by rules and regulations which seem to
kowtow to avoiding any and all assumed slights.

I'm 46 years old - I look all of 47. The person at the checkout counter, who
is also my age, should be able to figure that out when selling me alcohol.
However, in order NOT to offend someone who might be 23, and rightfully
asked for an ID, we all get carded. There it is - adult decision making
removed from the POS.

Relating this back to ATC (at OSH that morning) is easy. Vague, potential,
abstract, perceived sensibilities were considered above common sense. If we
hoard the information in front of us, we won't make a possible blunder and
hurt someone's feelings.

That information was necessary for pilots arriving to make adult
decisions - Should we land 100 miles out? Yes. Should we bug out to Fond du
Lac now? Yes. Should we delay our departure from 300 miles out? Yes. Should
we be understanding of the ground situation and continue the holding
pattern? Yes.

It's sad that not a single pink shirt said, 'Don't you think the pilots in
the air, and the ones hundreds of miles away - ready to make the final push
inbound to OSH, could use this information to help in making THEIR OWN
decisions?'

Nah, let's hoard all information. It's safer that way - regulations don't
you know.

Or put another (better) way, no one gave me permission to make an adult
decision, use my own judgment, assess the situation from where I stand
....much like the grocery store clerk carding a 46 year old buying beer - for
fear of getting punished.


Montblack
Except for this one (management induced) brain fart, I think the pink shirts
at OSH do an OUTSTANDING job!