Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

Man, that sucks. At OSH, a daily shower is NOT optional...

Sun-n-fun does much better. They have =permanent= showers, with lots of
hot water.

In the fly-in camping area (AKA: The North 40) there are plenty of
showers. We all cruise them pretty quickly, no lines, no waiting.

Montblack is talking about a shortage in Camp Scholler, the drive-in
camping area.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Montblack is talking about a shortage in Camp Scholler, the drive-in
camping area.


Not Camp Scholler.

http://www.circle-r-camp.com/
Circle R Campground

http://www.circle-r-camp.com/html/map.html
Layout

Approx. one mile south (maybe two) of the ultralight pasture.
http://www.circle-r-camp.com/html/directions.html
Directions

Like I said: nice campground, good rates, convenient campground store, flush
toilets here and there, laundry room, pleasant owners, fantastic (1967)
campground playground, idyllic farm setting with corn growing all around you
....and three shower stalls.


Montblack
Staying in the dorms this year.

Montblack wrote:

Not Camp Scholler.

First you're at the Charcoal Pit, now you're camping at Scholler. If
Jay keeps at it, you'll have been camped next to all of us in your
(future) Ercoupe. :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

Not Camp Scholler.

First you're at the Charcoal Pit, now you're camping at Scholler. If
Jay keeps at it, you'll have been camped next to all of us in your
(future) Ercoupe. :-)

Who *is* this "Montblack" fellow, anyway??

;-)

It is kinda funny how all of my Oshkosh memories are blending together.
They're becoming one big, happy blur, separated by intense points of
experience...

....like that downpour
....and Space Ship One
....and Concorde
....and meeting Jimmy Doolittle
....and Paul Tibbets
....and seeing Voyager fly over
....and seeing the F-117 for the first time
....and hearing Neil Armstrong
....and Burt Rutan
....and all those terrific Jim Weir forums
....and all those warbirds shows
....and...so many things!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Who *is* this "Montblack" fellow, anyway??

;-)

A legend in his own mind :-) Oh...I mean, most excellent supplier of
camping gear to the useful load impaired.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

("Jack Allison" wrote)
Oh...I mean, most excellent supplier of camping gear to the useful load
impaired.


What is your Arrow's useful load? More importantly, what are your fuel hops
going to be with seats full? Why yes, I mean ...with IFR reserves!!

BTW, we're waiting for OSH to get new pillows. Yup, you get them first (x4)
, then they're all ours. Margene has decided ....it's time.

[If you need to save a little room (x4) - we're getting them either way.
Holding off 'till OSH, that's all.]

Guests [visiting] means we get new towels, or microwave, or (Full size)
sheets and comforter set, or new patio chairs, or whatever - I simply nod
and go pick up what she tells me buy. :-)


A legend in his own mind :-)

"Being John Montblackovich" (1999)

Guests [visiting] means we get new towels, or microwave, or (Full size)
sheets and comforter set, or new patio chairs, or whatever - I simply nod
and go pick up what she tells me buy. :-)

I *thought* all that stuff looked pretty new at Thanksgiving! Sorry to
have cost you so much... ;-)

And our first movie night went well last night, although (strangely
enough) a bunch of people showed up AFTER the movie. Must be that
"free beer" thing?

:-)

And, of course, the women made me replay the volleyball scene with Tom
Cruise, Val Kilmer, et al, OVER and OVER and OVER...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Montblack wrote:
What is your Arrow's useful load? More importantly, what are your fuel
hops going to be with seats full? Why yes, I mean ...with IFR reserves!!

Please keep in mind the copilot is not the one questioning Montblack's
outfitting capabilities here. :-)

Montblack wrote:
What is your Arrow's useful load? More importantly, what are your fuel
hops going to be with seats full? Why yes, I mean ...with IFR reserves!!

Useful load is 983.8 lbs. With four seats full, we'll carry 36 gallons
(to the tabs) which means three hour legs in order to land with an
hour's worth reserves (my mandated fuel reserves, more than those
required by the FARs). For any IFR ops., it depends on the timeframe to
the destination + alternate + reserves...most likely around 2:30 for
time to destination + alternate and I'd still have (my) reserves
remaining. Until we get past Salt Lake, there's little chance we'd do
IFR flying though as much of the MEAs would require supplemental O2.
Dang rocks are just so high that by the time you add obstruction
clearance and nav. aid reception, you'd really want to be sucking on
bottled O2.


BTW, we're waiting for OSH to get new pillows. Yup, you get them first
(x4) , then they're all ours. Margene has decided ....it's time.

Oooooh, no lumpy ones, eh? Cooooooool! Still need to weigh a bunch of
stuff though. Will keep you posted on that front.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

Who *is* this "Montblack" fellow, anyway??

A legend in his own mind :-) Oh...I mean, most excellent supplier of
camping gear to the useful load impaired.

Isn't that the definition of an "outfitter"?