On Jul 12, 11:25 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Every year some people decide to fly into the world's busiest airspace
with little or no pre-flight preparation. Last year (2006) was the

Jay,

Based on our experience flying to Oshkosh last year, I would like
to add two more items to your excellent suggestions of practicing
flying tight pattern, slow flights, spot landing, familiarizing with
the procedures etc.

1. If possible, have a co-pilot or at least a passenger and ask the
passenger to help with looking out for traffic.
2. Practice go around! Don't expect planes ahead of you will land on
the allotted space and/or quick to exit the runway.

Due to work schedule, we will not be able to attend Oshkosh this
year. I am looking forward to reading pireps especially about XM-
weather & EFB options. From what I have read, it does not look like
Lowrance will introduce XM-weather version at Oshkosh this year.
Just hope that Garmin will introduce a new unit with bigger screen
size and may even have approach plates!

With the price of solid state hard disks coming down to reasonable
level, I am checking out several products such as VistaNav, Flight
Cheetah FL190 etc. Wish that we could be at Oshkosh to examine and
buy them at a discount ;-). Last year, we bought several items at
the show (JPI EDM-700, Oxygen system, the Claws etc.) at discounted
prices. The money which we saved was more than enough to pay for the
trip avgas cost.

Hai Longworth