"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote

I'd appreciate any tips or links to tips. I've read the EAA
info pretty closely, and the notam is 32 pages with detailed
approach sequencing and landing procedures.

I'm sure many others will chime in with their tips, but I'll get the ball
rolling.

Studying the EAA info and NOTAMS is great. Know them like the back of your
hand, because one the traffic starts packing together, you won't have time
to be reading it.

Have a sign made, indicating if you want to go to vintage camping, or North
40, or whatever. Make it big, so it can be read by flagmen 75 or so feet
away. I think Jim Weir has them as a download on the RST website.

I like your idea of coming in with a handheld. I can't imagine coming to
OSH, NORDO. Beauty is, since a lot of people say they can hear OK, but
transmitting is weak, listening is about all you have to do!

Practice spot landings, made from all kinds of speed ranges, as if you were
told to hurry up, because there is a twin on your tail. Practice going slow
up to landing, as if someone is not turning off the runway as quick as they
are supposed to. Have someone in the plane with you, not tell you if he
wants you to put it down on the numbers, at a midpoint intersection, or a
far intersection, until you are on short final, then adjust to the
instructions. Sometimes you will be told to put it down on the numbers, and
at the last minute (or 10 seconds from touchdown), be told to land long, so
you just keep it in the air, and fly down the runway.

Practice with the downwind leg VERY close in, then with one tight
descending180 degree turn, arrive lined up, on very short final.

People that are prepared to adjust and be flexible, make OSH arrival work as
well as it does. It is fun to see, and it all works amazingly well.

Make it a game, and work on all kinds of precision flight and landings, in
all speed ranges, all with your eyes outside the cockpit, because that will
be where you will be needing to look.

Comments? Other suggestions?
--
Jim in NC