Kudos for him writing up the event.
Not sure I like a couple of the comments in it, though.
“The reason for this cowboy approach is to keep you out of the way of the simultaneous landing operations that occur on runway 27. “
There’s nothing cowboy about it. I’m not going to go measure the distances but it’s fine, AND fully published — and one can be prepared for it.
The other comment was about the controllers “always jamming him up” at OSH. Frankly if you watch folks landing there and listen to the controllers they say the exact same stuff to everybody repetitively and nothing is intended to “jam” anyone. His assertion that the controller wanted a base turn “urgently” is because they say that to EVERY pilot because SOME keep going and wander into the 9/27 path.
If he wanted to fly that a little wider with a shallower turn in behind the tri-motor, as long as he was TURNING so the pink shirt knew he wasn’t one of the wandering souls headed for the 9/27 traffic, they wouldn’t care in the slightest.
How one can miss this after watching even a day of landings there, or reading the NOTAM, I don’t know. But it’s NOT an urgency based on turning tight. It’s an urgency based on making sure you ARE going to turn. There’s a lot of room there.
One Eyed Jack made the same complaint after be crashed his jet. And that’s all I’m saying about that.
I wouldn’t be “happy about the outcome”, that’s for sure. If it’s really an approach design or pink shirt problem, I’d be still mad. And I’d not be happy if it was me. Not ever. The outcome wasn’t what was planned and the excuse that the turn call sounded urgent just doesn’t fly with me. Not after watching lots and lots of people make that turn more shallow and wider out toward the north enough to make that landing.
I won’t say he wouldn’t have gotten into the wake of the tri-motor, even doing that. Or that you can’t be surprised by wakes. I have. It’s hairy. No doubt. And yes, I agree with his final analysis that he really should have gone around if possible. He got that right.
The complaints about the approach and the pink shirts bother me. They’re just not accurate. Not from a CFI. I’ve had many a CFI say, even when a controller really DID want an urgent turn... “That’s not going to work. Don’t turn in hard yet. Let him figure it out. If we have to go around, we’ll go around.” Pattern work and judgement is pretty much a staple of the CFI. That whole line of complaint just bugs me.