Oshkosh gate admission on Sunday 24th?

If you give a forum, the forums folks have a single gator and a few golf
carts. If you are an accredited aviation writer, the press building has a
few golf carts.



Jim


"John T" wrote in message
...
I know flight line safety is one of the ones that has scooters for the
volunteers that actually go on the fight line, and flight line ops has a
few scooters for "follow me" type duties, but which jobs let you drive a
gator?

John,

I'll tell you the scooters are not very hard to drive. Come by and check in
at Flight Line Safety we REALLY need help these days ( a number of our guys
have gone south in the last couple of years ) we don't have gators
but we have a large number of scooters that need mature guys that are
willing to do an important job and have some fun at the same time!!!!

Dave J. Zera

Co-Chairman
Safety / Flight Line


John T" wrote in message
...
I know flight line safety is one of the ones that has scooters for the
volunteers that actually go on the fight line, and flight line ops has a
few scooters for "follow me" type duties, but which jobs let you drive a
gator?

John

David,
I did flight line safety on and off 2 or 3 conventions. It was OK, and I
liked riding the scooters back and forth on the flight line trying to
look important! I'll give it some thought about doing it again, did
flight line ops last year and enjoyed that, but they do kinda shut down
during airshow.

Probably the only downside of FLS was explaining why there was zero
tolerance of feet and stuff over the fireline ("Because its for safety,
and its the rule!").
Always thought that zipping along the flightline with a sickle swinging
along would get the message across....

John

"David J. Zera" *remove wrote in message ...
John,

I'll tell you the scooters are not very hard to drive. Come by and check in at Flight Line Safety we REALLY need help
these days ( a number of our guys have gone south in the last couple of years ) we don't have gators but we
have a large number of scooters that need mature guys that are willing to do an important job and have some fun at the
same time!!!!

Dave J. Zera

Co-Chairman
Safety / Flight Line



Sounds like an interesting thing to do. What sort of free time do you get, and it does give you free admission, right?

"David J. Zera" *remove wrote

I'll tell you the scooters are not very hard to drive. Come by and check
in
at Flight Line Safety we REALLY need help these days ( a number of our
guys
have gone south in the last couple of years ) we don't have
gators
but we have a large number of scooters that need mature guys that are
willing to do an important job and have some fun at the same time!!!!

Hmm, that almost sounds better than directing traffic at taxiway
intersections. I didn't realize there were positions opening up!

I'll stay with it, though. g
--
Jim in NC

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:33:27 GMT, "Cy Galley"
wrote:

It isn't the oldsters on bikes that would be the problem. It is the
controlled, unsupervised children.

Ever see a "gator" do a wheelie? I have in the hands of a teenager that was
supposed to be working. They do supply trams that one can ride from one end
to the other.

Another solution is to volunteer in a job that uses motorbikes or gators.


The last time I was at Osh we were packing a ton of camping gear from
the show camping area to the North 40 where our other aircraft was
parked and repeatedly got run off the sidewalk by jerks in carts who
were carrying nothing and cared less.
Last time for me.

Ed Sullivan

I believe there is a welcome wagon that does transport from plane parking to
camping.

I personally have transported people many times even out into the country
side but it only happens by co-incidence.

Did you wave and ask for help? The volunteers are friendly and like to help
people. My entire group is a service group and does stop and help if
possible.

--
Cy Galley - Chair,
Air Emergency Aircraft Repair
A Service Project of Chapter 75
EAA Safety Programs Editor - TC
EAA Sport Pilot



"Ed Sullivan" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:33:27 GMT, "Cy Galley"
wrote:

It isn't the oldsters on bikes that would be the problem. It is the
controlled, unsupervised children.

Ever see a "gator" do a wheelie? I have in the hands of a teenager that
was
supposed to be working. They do supply trams that one can ride from one
end
to the other.

Another solution is to volunteer in a job that uses motorbikes or gators.


The last time I was at Osh we were packing a ton of camping gear from
the show camping area to the North 40 where our other aircraft was
parked and repeatedly got run off the sidewalk by jerks in carts who
were carrying nothing and cared less.
Last time for me.

Ed Sullivan

Did you wave and ask for help? The volunteers are friendly and like to
help
people. My entire group is a service group and does stop and help if
possible.

Cy Galley - Chair,
Air Emergency Aircraft Repair
A Service Project of Chapter 75
EAA Safety Programs Editor - TC
EAA Sport Pilot

I have to second Cy, from time to time I have taken out an Gator and if I
seen someone in need of help
I and the rest of the team would help them out. just flag us down and we
will help
you out. I have taken dozens of people to different places of the convention
at all times of the day and night.


Dave J. Zera
Co-Chairman
Safety/Flight line

"Cy Galley" wrote
..

Did you wave and ask for help? The volunteers are friendly and like to
help
people. My entire group is a service group and does stop and help if
possible.

Right. All people have to do to get help transporting stuff, is to ask the
guys that helped park you, to radio for a welcome wagon. Sometimes it take
5 or 10 minutes, if all are busy, but they will be glad to get you where you
are going.
--
Jim in NC

"Joe Camp" wrote in message ...
I agree 100%! that's one of the most irratating policies the EAA has.
The distances to cover on the OSH grounds are huge. And the crowd that
snip...
Maybe then, we could vote in
bicycles, and who knows what else.

Well, I hear you. But I sure wish there were some bike paths that we could
use so that getting from my tent in the North 40 to the ultralight area in
the South 40 wasn't a 30-minute (or more) hike.

By the end of the week, none of us can bear the thought of walking down that
far anymore, so we end up skipping huge portions of the show that I'd really
like to see in greater detail.

It seems like a couple of "bikes/scooters only" paths, with parking areas at
either end, would do the trick?


The trams work pretty well and run pretty much all day...