vfr corridor

If you want a "taste of Oshkosh", go to the AOPA Fly-in at FDK. I think it was
in 2002 that FDK became the second busiest airport in the country for that one
day, right behind ATL and ahead or ORH. I think the weather was IFR for 2003,
but I may be off by a year.

Dave Reinhart


"Guy Elden Jr." wrote:

The icing on the cake tho came when we got to the Verrazano. I requested
direct CDW and to transition Class B, and was immediately cleared in with a
descent to 6,500 and direct CDW. This put us on a perfect turn to round the
tip of Manhattan directly over the bridge, and then start our way up the
Hudson river side of the city. As I leveled off at 6,500, I noticed the
queue of departures waiting on the taxiway at Newark for 22L. They were
departing at a good pace, probably one every 45 seconds. We were handed over
to "Newark" departure (a term I hadn't heard til today), and I noticed that
that controller was a bit busier. He was still able to handle us very well
though, with just a small vector more northward, which again, put us in an
even better position to view the city from along the Hudson.

A few minutes later we were cleared down to 2,500, and as we descended
through 3,000, radar services were terminated, I contacted CDW, and was
cleared for a straight-in on 27 behind one more arrival. Picture perfect
landing to an absolutely picture perfect flight. I will _definitely_ be
doing this one again!

p.s... when we arrived at CDW around noon today (before the flights), there
were, I kid you not, _12_ planes queued up on the taxiway waiting to depart.
All GA. I've never seen that many GA planes in a line at any airport before.
The tower told all the touch and go traffic to land or go elsewhere for a
while so they could clear out the traffic, but my oh my, I think that gave
me a taste of what to expect if I make it out to Oshkosh this year! :-)

--
Guy Elden Jr.

"David Reinhart" wrote in message
...
If you want a "taste of Oshkosh", go to the AOPA Fly-in at FDK. I think
it was
in 2002 that FDK became the second busiest airport in the country for that
one
day, right behind ATL and ahead or ORH. I think the weather was IFR for
2003,
but I may be off by a year.

Having been into Oshkosh during the airshow a number of times, I can tell
you the AOPA
fly-in is a scarey nightmare. Unlike Oshkosh where you have a few pilots
and a lot of
controllers/ground crew who have a clue, you have none of these at the AOPA
expo.
You get a bunch of people who haven't even pretended to read the NOTAM,
talking
over top of each other, unable to follow directions etc....

Don't let the AOPA flyin scare you out of flying to Oshkosh.

David Reinhart wrote:

I think the weather was IFR for 2003, but I may be off by a year.

Yes, this past year the weather was actually low IFR for most of the day
of the Fly-In. I flew down to Frederick from Syracuse the night before
so I didn't have to fly the ILS down to minimums on the day of the
event.

--
Peter










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