How often do you have to go around?

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:57:12 -0400, Ron Natalie
wrote:

Dan wrote:
Right.. for example at OSH where they are landing 3 planes at a time on
the same runway.


Oshkosh gets a special exemption to allow that. Normally,
there are stricter rules that the controllers must follow.
They have to plan (with little exception) that one aircraft
can not touch down until the other is clear.

Going into OSH about a week before the fly-in one year there were a
pair of us flying loose formation turning final. One was a Cozy and
the other my Deb. A tail dragger had landed and only partially turned
off at the first taxiway. The Cozy (canard) didn't have room to land.
I told the tower I had plenty of room. There was a pause followed by
ahhh OK. I had to apply power to get up to the tail dragger who was
still setting there talking to the ground crew. I started to go
around and they were gesturing for him to hurry up and get out of the
way. After all he could have stopped clear of the runway as he had a
good 100 feet plus to the west parallel taxiway for 36.

As usual I had trouble convincing them the Deb went in the classic
camping area even with my 1959 model sign.:-))


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com