Oshkosh Bound Posters, Approach Procedures, and Such

Oh, for corn sakes, folks. RST started the "Oshkosh Bound" posters in 1974,
long before EAA had a glimmer that they'd need some way of finding out where
you want to park, while "plastic" was still a dirty word to Burt Rutan, Paul
was Pope, and I had brown hair. Sheesh. And the personal computer was a
workbench full of little bits and pieces you soldered together yourself.

We PRINTED them until the pc became so pervasive and the internet so easy to
use that we posted them as files for YOU to print starting about ten years
ago. One year we mailed (MAILED, mind you) over 3000 of them out. I still
have an aversion to post office glue (WAY before self-adhesive stamps) in my
brain over that one.

We picked light blue and goldenrod because those were the two EAA colors.
We just stuck with them over the years. If you don't like the way we do
parking signs, by all means do your own. You want white? Fine, print
white. You want the traditional colors? Fine, have it your way -- color is
YOUR choice, isn't it. The color choice was OUR way of doing things 20
years prior to EAA even thinking about it.

However, now that the EAA has sort of settled down on its choice of abbrvtns
(why the hell is a word meaning "make shorter" so long?) for parking --
which have changed almost every year since they instituted THEIR way of
doing things -- so that the "Oshkosh Bound" will be duplicated on one side
of the printed sheet, then you turn the sheet over in the printer and we
will use the standard EAA abbrvtns on the obverse in very large typeface.

Talk about mountains out of molehills. Sheesh.

Oh, and by the way, black print on goldenrod is by far more visible than
black on white ... that's one of the things you learn at politician school.
Red on white is best followed by black on goldenrod ... just fyi.

Jim







"john smith" wrote in message
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In article om,
"Eric Bartsch" wrote:

I've looked on the airventure site again and I still find no mention of
using colors for the signs. Can anyone who thinks colors should be
used, send a reference to where those instructions come from? I recall
seeing people using colored signs in the past but couldn't find
anything relevant to this year...

Is it in the NOTAM?

("john smith" wrote)
I certainly hope anyone who partakes of a set delivers just compensation!


Just com-en-get-em.

If (when) you do leave the clunkers behind, put them by a shower building or
the road, etc. I'll write "FREE Please take!" ...on the bottoms.

Contact me if you want a set. We'll get them to you.
7 sets (of 3) are not spoken for.

Give me your name and N-Number
Type of plane and color.
Your Cell number. I'll give you mine, etc.
Day to expect you.

Then your location on the field - when you arrive.


Montblack
a t (vi s i)
no 4's or Y's

Jay Honeck wrote:

the NOTAM, go practice!

But DON'T land somewhere else, cuz you're intimidated by all this.
Landing at OSH is the thrill of a lifetime, and, quite frankly, coming
to OSH by landing at Fond du Lac or Appleton and riding the bus up is
like kissing your sister. It's ALMOST right, but not quite...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I dunno kissing your sister might not be too bad, what does she look like
and how does she kiss? ;-)
(running and ducking)
John

Montblack,
What gate and what time do you usually try to get your vehicle on the
north 40 for the party prep? I might be able to help you out.
Drop me an email on this.

For those asking about when it will be busy, watch out for Saturday
afternoon, that is the scheduled arrival of all the various mass fly-in
groups.

See you on the North 40!

Ryan Wubben
Co-Chair, Flight Line Ops (the orange shirts)

wrote)
See you on the North 40!

Ryan Wubben
Co-Chair, Flight Line Ops (the orange shirts)


Getting vehicle gate passes for Wednesday:
When we drove over, in June, for the Weekend Work Party, "XYZ" (in Security)
told me who to contact Saturday morning, when I arrive, just in case "XYZ"
isn't there in person.

Thank you for all of your help in past years. HOPEFULLY this year will be
our smoothest yet.


Montblack

Jay Honeck wrote:

But DON'T land somewhere else, cuz you're intimidated by all this.
Landing at OSH is the thrill of a lifetime, and, quite frankly, coming
to OSH by landing at Fond du Lac or Appleton and riding the bus up is
like kissing your sister. It's ALMOST right, but not quite...

The one time I missed the airport closing for the air show by just a couple of
minutes and had to divert to Appleton, it was a horrorshow. The NFCT at Appleton
was incompetent, the bus schedule allowed for a lot of waiting around, you have
to schlep your luggage around from bus to bus. I was staying in the dorm, so bus
from Appleton to OSH, then bus from OSH bus terminal to airport terminal
building, then bus from terminal building to the dorms.

If that ever happens again, I'll just stage myself at a nearby airport and wait
for OSH to reopen. I'll get there before the person who diverts to Appleton and
takes the bus(es).

I'll add it to the list. Thanks. I'm sort of interested in how these
frequencies, listed in the FAA regs as air traffic control frequencies, get
assigned to these folks. You don't imagine that they just use them without
benefit of license, do you?

Jim


"Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote in
message news:ks6wg.79461$ZW3.65105@dukeread04...
For those people interested in the frequencies, an addition to Jim's list
is 133.85 which was used by the Warbirds Airboss last year.

Dave Butler wrote:

The one time I missed the airport closing for the air show by just a
couple of minutes and had to divert to Appleton, it was a horrorshow.
The NFCT at Appleton was incompetent, the bus schedule allowed for a lot
of waiting around, you have to schlep your luggage around from bus to
bus. I was staying in the dorm, so bus from Appleton to OSH, then bus
from OSH bus terminal to airport terminal building, then bus from
terminal building to the dorms.

If that ever happens again, I'll just stage myself at a nearby airport
and wait for OSH to reopen. I'll get there before the person who diverts
to Appleton and takes the bus(es).

I'm not sure as many people will be flying this year, but in 2003 I got
there late and the airport was closed for the air show. We were tired
and camped at Fond du Loc for the night. Sure enough, after the air
show they filled up completely. The next day we packed up and headed
for OSH only to have to come right back to Fond du Loc, for good this time.

I don't know if they ever did fill up in 2003 and 2004 or not.

Tom

It looks like the Government is on top of things.
http://www.faa.gov/ats/aaf/asr/libra...s/Plan_R16.PDF is titled
"Radio Spectrum Plan 2001-2010"
Page 14 mentions that Oshkosh has 10 frequency assignments, and Lakeland
has 5. I didn't see how they get assigned to smaller shows though.

Paul

RST Engineering wrote:
I'll add it to the list. Thanks. I'm sort of interested in how these
frequencies, listed in the FAA regs as air traffic control frequencies, get
assigned to these folks. You don't imagine that they just use them without
benefit of license, do you?

Jim