OSH '07 Redux -- Pix & Video

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that is the unpublished procedure referred to.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There's also a special, unpublished, procedure for vendors, etc.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"...

;-)

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that is the unpublished procedure referred to.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.

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

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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Oh, demo flights. There are special procedures for those but you get
them AFTER you've already arrived at OSH every year.

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)