Oshkosh camping

Roger wrote:

BTW, what color is your Navion, Ron?

Dark blue. There hare pictures on Honeck's web site
or http://www.margynatalie.com

For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:24:42 -0400, Tedstriker
wrote:



For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I slept in a tent in 1991 and it was O.K. if you didn't get in the
bag. We had to go to bed at sundown because the mosquitos come out in
droves. I then got up about midnite or a little later and took a
shower which wasn't crowded at that time. I then went back and lay
down til sunrise and got out and looked at stuff before the crowds
were up. I was camped in the show camping which was right next to the
theatre in the woods. They'd let you park a homebuilt in there then,
but I think it has changed since then.

Ed Sullivan

I have been at OSH when the temps were in the teens and in the 90-90+'s, all
in the same week. We usually pitch the tent in a high spot in Camp
Scholler, on a bigger than the tent ground tarp, then take a tarp that gives
a minimum of a 4' drip ring around the tent and tie it off to stakes. This
guarantees a dry and windstorm proof tent.

Store your clothes either inside a car trunk or in plastic bags as the
humidity spikes int he afternoon.

As for sleeping......after walking in the HOT sun all day, enjoying the
evening festivities, grabbing a shower around 10PM to Midnight, I crawl my
naked butt into sheets placed inside my open sleeping bag (it can get really
cool here too) and don't even roll until that pesky 7AM morning drone flyby
to wake us all up.

If worse comes, let the storms rage (and they will) but we are always high
and dry.

Can't make it this year.... ;-(
Brian
"Ed Sullivan" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:24:42 -0400, Tedstriker
wrote:



For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I slept in a tent in 1991 and it was O.K. if you didn't get in the
bag. We had to go to bed at sundown because the mosquitos come out in
droves. I then got up about midnite or a little later and took a
shower which wasn't crowded at that time. I then went back and lay
down til sunrise and got out and looked at stuff before the crowds
were up. I was camped in the show camping which was right next to the
theatre in the woods. They'd let you park a homebuilt in there then,
but I think it has changed since then.

Ed Sullivan

"ubenhadd" wrote

We usually pitch the tent in a high spot in Camp
Scholler, on a bigger than the tent ground tarp,

Putting a tent on a tarp with some of the tarp sticking out, is a recipe for
the tarp to catch some water, and pool it, then having it leak through the
floor. Normally, you roll up the tarp so it is slightly under the edge of
the tent, and if possible, put some leaves or dirt under the edge of the
tarp, to insure that rain does not drip down the sides of the tent, and find
its way onto the top of the tarp.

Careful how loudly you say "a wind proof tent." I have seen winds at OSH
that will blow down ANYTHING, unless extra lines are added, and firmly
staked.
--
Jim in NC

I *specifically* remember in 200(1?) when we were still giving forums in
tents as opposed to concrete blockhouses standing on the top of a canvas
forums tent in the morning mist giving the forum. Those suckers were guyed
with 1½" ropes and staked with 1" rebar 6' into the ground and they STILL
blew down.

"The show must go on."

Jim


Careful how loudly you say "a wind proof tent." I have seen winds at OSH
that will blow down ANYTHING, unless extra lines are added, and firmly
staked.
--
Jim in NC

"RST Engineering" wrote

Those suckers were guyed
with 1½" ropes and staked with 1" rebar 6' into the ground and they STILL
blew down.

Amen, brother Jim. Amazing how the wind thinks a tent is a sail, and can
send them "sailing away."

The most I hope for is wind resistant. I also try to make it so the sucker
falls down, just before it breaks down.
--
Jim in NC

"Tedstriker" wrote in message
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For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably?

Usually, yes. Take a sheet along. I also took a small battery pack, like
you use to charge up a car battery, and hooked a small fan to it, and hung
it it the top of my tent.

If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room.

Gotta leave by 19:00, so you have to decide well before then. Also, you
might arrive the next day, to find that the field is full. I wouldn't risk
it, if it were me, for the seldom problem of not cooling off at night.

My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I feel your pain, but it's all so worth it. Hang in there.
--
Jim in NC

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:53:26 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Tedstriker" wrote in message
g
it it the top of my tent.

If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room.

Gotta leave by 19:00, so you have to decide well before then. Also, you
might arrive the next day, to find that the field is full. I wouldn't risk
it, if it were me, for the seldom problem of not cooling off at night.


Do they close the airport to departues at 19:00? or is that just how
soon to leave to get somewhere else before dark?

that woud be a bummer if one left by air, to go to a hotel, then
couldn't get back in to the fly-in. But I don't think I'll have that
problem, being in a homebuilt/showplane. They usually want all those
they can get. And mine qualifies for that front and center parking
area they've reserved for past champions, and those with over a
thousand hours total time. Mine has about 1,650.

Airport closes just before sunset at about 1900. Period. DO NOT try to
extricate yourself from a parking spot and find a runway in the dark
with literally thousands of people lounging, walking, relaxing or
milling about. It is an accident waiting to happen. We used to try and
park aircraft in the dark in the bad old days, and it was not worth the
risk to anyone. If you want to leave, wait until the am and leave when
the airport reopens just after sunrise.

Regards,
Ryan
Madison, WI
Co-Chairman, EAA Flight Line Operations

Tedstriker wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:53:26 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Tedstriker" wrote in message
g
it it the top of my tent.

If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room.

Gotta leave by 19:00, so you have to decide well before then. Also, you
might arrive the next day, to find that the field is full. I wouldn't risk
it, if it were me, for the seldom problem of not cooling off at night.


Do they close the airport to departues at 19:00? or is that just how
soon to leave to get somewhere else before dark?

that woud be a bummer if one left by air, to go to a hotel, then
couldn't get back in to the fly-in. But I don't think I'll have that
problem, being in a homebuilt/showplane. They usually want all those
they can get. And mine qualifies for that front and center parking
area they've reserved for past champions, and those with over a
thousand hours total time. Mine has about 1,650.