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Random thoughts and, hopefully, not stuff already answered... - Visit www.ariventure.org...a lot. Tons of great info. there. - Download the NOTAM (available from the airventure website). Read it, highlight it, sleep with it under your pillow, have it in the plane when you make the arrival. If the size of the NOTAM scares you, drive or fly commercially. I'm serious! - Hit avweb and search for Rick Durden's past articles about Oshkosh. Great stuff. One very sobering article but well worth the read (and you'll understand why I say if the NOTAM scares you, drive. - Arriving a day before the show starts has worked for us the past two years. Another option is to wait until about day three or four as lots of spots open up in the north-40 after the first couple of days. - Figure out where folks that frequent the newsgroups come from and pick their brains routes, places to stop for gas and/or hotel (*if* the NOTAM doesn't scare you and you fly in :-) ) - IMHO, no matter how many days you plan for the first time you go, you won't see everything, you'll be dead tired after each day but you'll have the biggest grin on your face and you'll want to come back the next year and the year after that and the year after that and... - If you fly in (ya, after the NOTAM thing), have somebody else in the plane. As many mark-one eyeballs looking outside as possible helps. - Ask tons of questions since there are many folks like Jay H. who have gone to Oshkosh for the past zillion years or so. I'm a mere newbie with only two years under my belt. Congrats on the decision to go. Next to deciding to learn to fly, doing something like this is a great PIC decision :-) -- Jack Allison PP-ASEL-IA Student-Arrow shopping student "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) |
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Here's links to the mentioned columns... a must read:
http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182691-1.html http://www.avweb.com/news/osh2002/181590-1.html -ET Jack Allison wrote in k.net: Random thoughts and, hopefully, not stuff already answered... - Visit www.ariventure.org...a lot. Tons of great info. there. - Download the NOTAM (available from the airventure website). Read it, highlight it, sleep with it under your pillow, have it in the plane when you make the arrival. If the size of the NOTAM scares you, drive or fly commercially. I'm serious! - Hit avweb and search for Rick Durden's past articles about Oshkosh. Great stuff. One very sobering article but well worth the read (and you'll understand why I say if the NOTAM scares you, drive. - Arriving a day before the show starts has worked for us the past two years. Another option is to wait until about day three or four as lots of spots open up in the north-40 after the first couple of days. - Figure out where folks that frequent the newsgroups come from and pick their brains routes, places to stop for gas and/or hotel (*if* the NOTAM doesn't scare you and you fly in :-) ) - IMHO, no matter how many days you plan for the first time you go, you won't see everything, you'll be dead tired after each day but you'll have the biggest grin on your face and you'll want to come back the next year and the year after that and the year after that and... - If you fly in (ya, after the NOTAM thing), have somebody else in the plane. As many mark-one eyeballs looking outside as possible helps. - Ask tons of questions since there are many folks like Jay H. who have gone to Oshkosh for the past zillion years or so. I'm a mere newbie with only two years under my belt. Congrats on the decision to go. Next to deciding to learn to fly, doing something like this is a great PIC decision :-) |
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Jack, you are coming from Sacramento, aren't you? Wanna convoy this year?
The blueonblue182 is leaving on Saturday to hit Jay's pool party in Iowa City on Sunday into Oshkosh on Monday. Leaving Saturday after the EAA meeting and election for a straight flight home -- usually East Undershirt Nebraska the first day and home on Sunday. BTW, that link is www.airventure.com Note the typo? Jim "Jack Allison" wrote in message k.net... Random thoughts and, hopefully, not stuff already answered... - Visit www.ariventure.org...a lot. Tons of great info. there. |
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Paul wrote:
Plan no more than 3 full days for the first time. You will be exausted !! I disagree...I only spent 3 days my first time and was ready for more but my ride was leaving... |
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Isn't it www.airventure.org?
"RST Engineering" wrote in message ... Jack, you are coming from Sacramento, aren't you? Wanna convoy this year? The blueonblue182 is leaving on Saturday to hit Jay's pool party in Iowa City on Sunday into Oshkosh on Monday. Leaving Saturday after the EAA meeting and election for a straight flight home -- usually East Undershirt Nebraska the first day and home on Sunday. BTW, that link is www.airventure.com Note the typo? Jim "Jack Allison" wrote in message k.net... Random thoughts and, hopefully, not stuff already answered... - Visit www.ariventure.org...a lot. Tons of great info. there. |
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message ... Paul wrote: Plan no more than 3 full days for the first time. You will be exausted !! I disagree...I only spent 3 days my first time and was ready for more but my ride was leaving... I thought I was the only one.... I go for 6 days, and have always gone away wishing I had 3 or 4 more days. Yes, you get tired, but it is a "good" tired! g For my money, you can't beat camping on the field. Showers suck, but if you bring enough food and a way to keep stuff cold, you can't beat getting up and being there, and the ability to go to camp to eat and rest, and party, if you want. -- Jim in NC |
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Jim, remember Oshkosh starts on Monday this year.
Jay, how is this gonna affect your pool party? John |
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Jim, remember Oshkosh starts on Monday this year.
Jay, how is this gonna affect your pool party? Our fly-in pool party will be on Saturday (rather than Sunday) this year, to allow everyone to arrive in OSH one day early, as prescribed by both tradition and common sense. The rec.aviation party at our campsite will still be on Wednesday though, methinks. Or does that interfere with your other parties, Jim? Montblack? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote The rec.aviation party at our campsite will still be on Wednesday though, methinks. Or does that interfere with your other parties, Jim? Montblack? -- Jay Honeck Works for me, I think. I usually have problems trying to plan my day tomorrow, so planning a day in July?..... g -- Jim in NC |
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