OSH vs SnF

"Michael" wrote:

I have NEVER been as scared as I was on some of the Oshkosh and Sun 'n Fun
arrival and departure procedures. I'm not going back.

This year was my first year to make it all the way to OSH and actually land
there. The sky was full of airplanes from Ripon onward, but nothing happened
that scared me. I realize that luck plays a role in this, but the same can
be said for operations at Weiser, where I *have* had the crap scared out of
me by a Baron that veered off the runway and was headed straight for me at
the gas pump.

Yes, OSH and SnF are dangerous, but given the historical ratio of
fatals/operation, not dangerous enough to scare me off. Living is dangerous.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

In article om,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Both times we were stuck by winter storms and icing, and there
always seems to be a persistent line of thunderstorms stationed right
along the Florida panhandle.

Interesting that you noticed that.
Gordon Baxter wrote about the same thing over twenty years ago.

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

We have never been stopped by weather going into SnF that an IFR ticket
would have helped. At least not in anything less than a King Air.

This is true.
I have watched low pressure systems pump moisture into the Eastern US
around SnF week. It comes up out of the Gulf and either tracks northeast
up the west side of the Alleghanies or eastward across AL and GA then up
the east side of the Alleghanies. It can last as long as two weeks (four
years ago.) I have taken advantage of being on the front side of a high
pressure system going south to FL and ridden the trailing low pressure
system back north later the same week. If the timing works, it provides
spectacular ground speeds.