Oshkosh arrivals

Ron Natalie wrote:
(Of course, I was standing on taxiway Papa when a plane landed there
one year as well).

Ron,

That is a frighteningly common occurrence. We call those runways 18
Left, 18 Right, and 18 Wrong (Papa).

Cheers,
Garrett

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Ron Natalie wrote:
(Of course, I was standing on taxiway Papa when a plane landed there
one year as well).

Ron,

That is a frighteningly common occurrence. We call those runways 18
Left, 18 Right, and 18 Wrong (Papa).

Chuckle Yep, I've not been out there when one landed, but almost. He
sidestepped at the last moment, when ATC yelled at him. I was monitoring
tower in one ear.

I was on Papa when someone took off from it, one year! I stood there and
saw it and told someone else, "watch out, it looks like he is getting ready
to take off!" and sure enough, he did!
--
Jim in NC

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:26:34 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:
Chuckle Yep, I've not been out there when one landed, but almost. He
sidestepped at the last moment, when ATC yelled at him. I was monitoring
tower in one ear.

On my first trip to OSH, they changed me at the last minute from
landing on 27 to landing on 18R... Apparently the winds had changed,
so they were switching to a different runway... There was a storm
system coming in and the flight from Ripon to Fisk to the field was
basically scud running with enough rain to make it interesting enough
in that you couldn't see the plane in front of you even though you
could tell from the radio calls by the controllers that you were very
close... I looked down, saw basically 3 equally inviting strips of
concrete / asphalt before me and remembered reading that during this
time, they changed it to 18L, 18R and a taxiway... I'm low, slow,
going in and out of rain and in fairly congested airspace, so I don't
have the time to grab the NOTAM and read through it... I don't really
want to be looking down in the cockpit instead of outside... I line up
on the rightmost strip of concrete / asphalt and survey the
situation... I figure that at worst, I'm lined up on the taxiway and
as long as there are no planes on it, it is not something that is
going to kill me... On the other hand, if it was in fact a runway and
I instead lined up on the middle strip of concrete / asphalt, there is
a definite chance of there being another plane and this would not be
good for my continued survival...There were no planes on any of the
strips of concrete / asphalt landing or taxiing, so I didn't have any
visual clues which were the runways and which was the taxiway... I
keep looking all the way down to the flare, at which time, the tower
informed me that I was lined upon on the taxiway, not the runway... No
yelling or anything, just a, "gray low wing, that's the taxiway"... A
bit of throttle and a quick side slip to the left and I continued my
landing on the middle strip of concrete / asphalt... I even got a
comment of "great save" from the tower...

Grumman-581 wrote:

A
bit of throttle and a quick side slip to the left and I continued my
landing on the middle strip of concrete / asphalt... I even got a
comment of "great save" from the tower...

Now that sounds a bit nerve-wracking (the entire approach in that weather).
Good story.

--
Peter

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:12:32 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote:
Now that sounds a bit nerve-wracking (the entire approach in that weather).
Good story.

On top of that, it was starting to get dark... Don't remember if it
was just from the reduced light getting through the clouds or from the
time of the day... I was getting kind of late though... I do remember
having to pick my way between very large towers of black clouds on my
descent... I was able to stay to the west of it until I got to Ripon,
at which time, I had to go through some of it... End result was no
bent metal, so it was a good day...