Oshkosh camping

Morgans wrote:
"Ron Natalie" wrote

Those people camped in the trees

(alternatively known as Sally's Alley or Calcutta depenidng on who you
ask) chose to camp there away from their aircraft.


Shade is a big factor, but it's a social area too. As I said many
of them are part of the volunteer crew. "Sally" operates a cooperative
kitchen there as well.

Tedstriker wrote:

Anybody can camp in the North 40 (spam can) parking area. Homebuilt,
classic or otherwise. You often see people who would qualify for
showplane camping parked up there for the exact reason you have.

It used to be that homebuilts could park in with the classics, but
since the homebuilts got their own camping area there seems to be
some rift between the two communities. Never hurts to ask once
you get there, but be prepared to deal with the least common denominator.

The North 40 isn't that bad. I parked there two years. There's
no blasted PA system and your much closer to the off-field services
(Restaurants, groceries).


Do they have showers/bathrooms in that North 40 parking area just like
in homebuilt camping? I haven't done the camping thing there yet, and
was wondering, are the showers/bathrooms overly crowded in the
morning? that is, do you have to stand in line just to get inside?
Not having that PA system sounds nice, as do being closer to the
services. I guess up there, you're out of walking distance to the
show.

I did when I was there in 1995. The first morning, I got to the showers
about 7:00 and waited probably 30 minutes. The next morning I got there
before 6:00 and only waited a couple of minutes. The rest of the week
I stayed in the dorms and didn't wait at all! :-)


Matt

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:02:54 -0400, Ron Natalie
wrote:

Kyle Boatright wrote:
In the
homebuilt, antique, and classic areas, my experience is that you've gotta be
an early arriver to stake out enough room for an airplane and tent.
Otherwise, the plane will end up in showplane parking, with the tent a few
hundred yards away, crammed up against a bunch of other tents.


Not true. The parking area fills up faster than campign which goes on
practically forever to the south. Those people camped in the trees
(alternatively known as Sally's Alley or Calcutta depenidng on who you
ask) chose to camp there away from their aircraft. Many of them are
volunteers for the Vintage division.

Don't they fill up all the way South to the airport boundary fence
which is well beyond the end of the runway? Now that is the middle of
nowhe-))

I've always been able to get into showplane camping, but they always
question the age of the Deb which looks like a modern F-33, but was
built in 59.

Of course that does fill up early on, but you don't need to get there
a week ahead of time like I usually did.

BTW, what color is your Navion, Ron?

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

Roger wrote:

BTW, what color is your Navion, Ron?

Dark blue. There hare pictures on Honeck's web site
or http://www.margynatalie.com

For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:24:42 -0400, Tedstriker
wrote:



For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I slept in a tent in 1991 and it was O.K. if you didn't get in the
bag. We had to go to bed at sundown because the mosquitos come out in
droves. I then got up about midnite or a little later and took a
shower which wasn't crowded at that time. I then went back and lay
down til sunrise and got out and looked at stuff before the crowds
were up. I was camped in the show camping which was right next to the
theatre in the woods. They'd let you park a homebuilt in there then,
but I think it has changed since then.

Ed Sullivan

"Tedstriker" wrote in message
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For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably?

Usually, yes. Take a sheet along. I also took a small battery pack, like
you use to charge up a car battery, and hooked a small fan to it, and hung
it it the top of my tent.

If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room.

Gotta leave by 19:00, so you have to decide well before then. Also, you
might arrive the next day, to find that the field is full. I wouldn't risk
it, if it were me, for the seldom problem of not cooling off at night.

My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I feel your pain, but it's all so worth it. Hang in there.
--
Jim in NC

("Tedstriker" wrote)
[snip]
For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably?


Last year was PERFECT (Wed-Sun) ...there was a Saturday late night storm.
Many people noted the total lack of mosquitoes for the week - the blood
sucking kind. Sleeping weather was very good.

I showered at night - no lines, cools you down, cleans you up from the day's
sun screen and sweat ...sleep like a baby. Trick I found works good for me
when it's hot and muggy, I use a bath towel on my pillow - for some reason I
sweat less that way.

In 2003 I stayed in the dorms (Thur-Sun). Prior to my arrival, the grounds
were hit hard by a few storms, some with straight line winds. Thursday
evening the N40 was 1/3 full. Had another storm roll through my first night
in the dorm - LOUD. By Friday evening the N40 was a almost empty. Broken
tents were piled 6-feet deep next to the dumpsters!! People pitched their
broken tent's, so to speak, and flew home.

Mosquitoes were light in 2003. Temps - not hot.

There was an OSH a few years ago that generated some I Survived Oshkosh _ _
_ _ t-shirts. Don't recall the year?


Montblack

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:18:17 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

("Tedstriker" wrote)
[snip]
For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably?


Last year was PERFECT (Wed-Sun) ...there was a Saturday late night storm.
Many people noted the total lack of mosquitoes for the week - the blood
sucking kind. Sleeping weather was very good.

I showered at night - no lines, cools you down, cleans you up from the day's
sun screen and sweat ...sleep like a baby. Trick I found works good for me
when it's hot and muggy, I use a bath towel on my pillow - for some reason I
sweat less that way.

In 2003 I stayed in the dorms (Thur-Sun). Prior to my arrival, the grounds
were hit hard by a few storms, some with straight line winds. Thursday
evening the N40 was 1/3 full. Had another storm roll through my first night
in the dorm - LOUD. By Friday evening the N40 was a almost empty. Broken
tents were piled 6-feet deep next to the dumpsters!! People pitched their
broken tent's, so to speak, and flew home.

Mosquitoes were light in 2003. Temps - not hot.

There was an OSH a few years ago that generated some I Survived Oshkosh _ _
_ _ t-shirts. Don't recall the year?


Montblack

Hmm... The way I've always gone in the past, that is take the
airlines to MKE, then rent a car and drive in doesn't sound so bad
again.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:53:26 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Tedstriker" wrote in message
g
it it the top of my tent.

If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room.

Gotta leave by 19:00, so you have to decide well before then. Also, you
might arrive the next day, to find that the field is full. I wouldn't risk
it, if it were me, for the seldom problem of not cooling off at night.


Do they close the airport to departues at 19:00? or is that just how
soon to leave to get somewhere else before dark?

that woud be a bummer if one left by air, to go to a hotel, then
couldn't get back in to the fly-in. But I don't think I'll have that
problem, being in a homebuilt/showplane. They usually want all those
they can get. And mine qualifies for that front and center parking
area they've reserved for past champions, and those with over a
thousand hours total time. Mine has about 1,650.