OSH '07 Redux -- Pix & Video

[Jay Honeck]

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm

Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and
Airventure.

It was one for the books, guys. Enjoy!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[John Clear]

In article m>,
Jay Honeck > wrote:
>http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm
>
>Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and
>Airventure.
>

Great pics. I'll make it one of these years.

BTW, your C-17 landing pics are actually the C-5 landing.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

[john smith[_2_]]

In article m>,
Jay Honeck > wrote:

> http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm
> Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and
> Airventure.
> It was one for the books, guys. Enjoy!

Nicely composed.
Good mix of text and pix.
Thanks for another great week of hospitality.

[Jay Honeck]

> Nicely composed.
> Good mix of text and pix.
> Thanks for another great week of hospitality.

Thanks. We had a great time, and I sure appreciated seeing you and
the "Little French Girl" again!

It's funny, if you look at my pix from our early years at OSH, they
look like everyone else's -- all cool airplanes. Every type, every
model, every color, in every attitude -- that's all I could see, at
first.

Now, with age (some might call it "seasoning". Or, at Oshkosh, we
might call it "ripening" :-), I've lost interest in taking pix of just
the airplanes. Sure, they provide the backdrop for everything, and
they are the reason we are there -- but I always try to include images
of the people I truly care about. Those are the photos with "legs",
and those are the ones that hang on our hangar walls.

Two of our four hangar walls are now entirely covered with 8.5 x 11"
photos of past flights, going all the way back to 1998. They provide
a visual chronicle of our lives, all the way back to the very first
day we rolled our "new" Warrior into the hangar.

Visitors always comment on how cool it is, to be able to see the kids
grow up just by looking at "The Wall", and you can bet that I'll be
adding half a dozen more pix from OSH '07. You (and all the other N40
guys and gals) will be up there for all to see!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jeff[_1_]]

What's funny...ok...eery about these pics is that, althought we've never
met, we must have tripped over each other several times during the week.

The pic of your daughter and the C17 is taken from the photo stand. I was
standing at the front of the C17 behind the crowd rope when they pulled it
in...probably 50 ft from you.

Then you mentioned in another thread that you were at the seaplane base for
the fish fry....I left the seaplane base about 3:30 prior to the fish fry
after the wind had all but grounded everyone (saw a pretty red-white Cessna
arrive and a yellow cub (I think), but nothing else other than a T-6 buzzing
us).

So, apparently I've been avoiding you :)

jf

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
ps.com...
> http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm
>
> Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and
> Airventure.
>
> It was one for the books, guys. Enjoy!
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>

[Jeff[_1_]]

BTW, I re-read your arrival narrative on this page. What was up with the
lady on final? Was she a straight in? Do they let the IFR folks in that way
or what? Why was she out there?

jf

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
ps.com...
> http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm
>
> Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and
> Airventure.
>
> It was one for the books, guys. Enjoy!
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>

[Jay Honeck]

> BTW, I re-read your arrival narrative on this page. What was up with the
> lady on final? Was she a straight in? Do they let the IFR folks in that way
> or what? Why was she out there?

I have no idea.

Mary thinks it was Patty Wagstaff, since who else would have the
chutzpah to give ATC a hard time at OSH? (And she *does* fly a Cirrus
now...)

I don't think it was, since she would hardly be the one to care about
flying close to someone else....

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

[Jay Honeck]

> What's funny...ok...eery about these pics is that, althought we've never
> met, we must have tripped over each other several times during the week.

This has happened to me before at OSH. Even though it's a humongous
place, there are really less than a dozen places where EVERYONE takes
pictures. Thus, OSH pix tend to look a lot alike.

If you're there next year, maybe we'll run into one another?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Ron Natalie]

Jay Honeck wrote:

> Mary thinks it was Patty Wagstaff, since who else would have the
> chutzpah to give ATC a hard time at OSH? (And she *does* fly a Cirrus
> now...)
>
> I don't think it was, since she would hardly be the one to care about
> flying close to someone else....
>
I agree with Jay. IFR arrivals do however come straight in and some
pilots do have an attitude. Not only is Patty used to close proximity,
she's been coming to Oshkosh longer than I have (15 years) and I can't
imagine that any arrival operations would faze her.

[Jay Honeck]

> I agree with Jay. IFR arrivals do however come straight in and some
> pilots do have an attitude. Not only is Patty used to close proximity,
> she's been coming to Oshkosh longer than I have (15 years) and I can't
> imagine that any arrival operations would faze her.

It's too bad, really -- I kinda wish it *was* Patty. There's just
something kinda cool about saying "Hey, I cut off Patty Wagstaff at
Oshkosh..." (Even if it *was* under ATC clearance...)

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

[Margy Natalie]

Ron Natalie wrote:
> Jay Honeck wrote:
>
>> Mary thinks it was Patty Wagstaff, since who else would have the
>> chutzpah to give ATC a hard time at OSH? (And she *does* fly a Cirrus
>> now...)
>>
>> I don't think it was, since she would hardly be the one to care about
>> flying close to someone else....
>>
> I agree with Jay. IFR arrivals do however come straight in and some
> pilots do have an attitude. Not only is Patty used to close proximity,
> she's been coming to Oshkosh longer than I have (15 years) and I can't
> imagine that any arrival operations would faze her.
There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc. and I
would guess she would use that one. A number of years ago Patty was
based at the same field we were and viewing a few of her landings I'm
sure she wouldn't worry about someone that far away.

Margy

[Jay Honeck]

> There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc.

I suspect you meant "for performers", right?

I can just see a special arrival for "Aircraft Spruce" or "Pacific
Coast Avionics"...

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

[John Theune]

Jay Honeck wrote:
>> There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc.
>
> I suspect you meant "for performers", right?
>
> I can just see a special arrival for "Aircraft Spruce" or "Pacific
> Coast Avionics"...
>
> ;-)
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>
I suspect he means more like Cirrus Demo flights and such

[Ron Natalie]

Jay Honeck wrote:
>> There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc.
>
> I suspect you meant "for performers", right?
>
> I can just see a special arrival for "Aircraft Spruce" or "Pacific
> Coast Avionics"...
>
Even the exhibition aircraft come in via the normal notam. What they
do have is a special "card" to hold up that lets them get into the
aeroshell square area before they shutdown.

[Jim Smith]

Listening to the tower freq. for 9/27 arrivals, you'll hear
manufacturer demo flights (as well as airshow performers and others)
calling in "over the prison" to the north of the airport. I assume
that is the unpublished procedure referred to.


Jay Honeck > wrote:

>> There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc.
>
>I suspect you meant "for performers", right?
>
>I can just see a special arrival for "Aircraft Spruce" or "Pacific
>Coast Avionics"...
>
>;-)

[Ron Natalie]

Jim Smith wrote:
> Listening to the tower freq. for 9/27 arrivals, you'll hear
> manufacturer demo flights (as well as airshow performers and others)
> calling in "over the prison" to the north of the airport. I assume
> that is the unpublished procedure referred to.
>
Oh, demo flights. There are special procedures for those but you get
them AFTER you've already arrived at OSH every year.

[RST Engineering]

There are also special procedures for photo-op aircraft with credentialed
journalists/cameramen on board. Several of the Kitplanes covers over the
years have been shot from PhotoBlue 182. Mostly it is "do your work south
of warbird island above 2000 agl and call the shoreline abeam the island
inbound."

Jim

--
"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford

"Ron Natalie" > wrote in message
...


>>
> Oh, demo flights. There are special procedures for those but you get
> them AFTER you've already arrived at OSH every year.

[[email protected][_2_]]

There have been some clowns out there showing up in non-warbirds over
Warbird Island calling the tower to come in rather than flying the
whole Ripon-Fisk procedure, because "they were too high performance"
for that.

It's become a bit of a problem because the warbird arrival is not
designed to take a whole lot of traffic, which then has to sequence in
with all the rest of us coming in thru Ripon-Fisk. There are non-
standard arrivals using the "prison approach" and warbird island, but
those are usually by prior arrangement and for those who are coming in
and out frequently (like the Cirrus and Remos G-3 LSA demo's out of
Orion aviation on the north ramp, the Ford trimotor, and especially
during the first and last part of the day for the photo ops planes and
their subjects).

If you are lucky enough to get an IFR slot all the way to OSH (as
opposed to getting dumped 60 miles out), then you will be sequenced
for a straight in to what-ever runway is being used, this being co-
ordinated between Chicago Center and OSH tower.

It's a work of art, and it's always being tweaked. It's amazing that
it works as well as it does. IMHO.

Ryan (EAA Flight Line Ops)