Flying into Oshkosh this year....get it off the bucket list

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Will be flying in for the day either on the 21st or the 22nd of July. Will be flying with my CFII. I want to get this off the bucket list, and we both love flying,so he is going along for the ride, and to help this Oshkosh flight newbie not get himself or others killed. Really looking forward to it.
 
It's really simple as pie. I think pilot's blow it up in their head. It's easy as follow the guy ahead of you, hold 90knots, hold 1800', and just tune and listen for your instructions.

You bet there's traffic, but that's what your eyes are for and the strict 90knot 1800' guidelines assure you know where everyone SHOULD be.

Fly it about ten times in FSX. Go down FISK avenue to 18 and do all the approaches. I should have started out with read and understand the NOTAM. Land on your dot assigned. After you do it with your CFI, you'll wonder what all the hub-bub was about. ;)
 
txflyer said:
It's really simple as pie. I think pilot's blow it up in their head. It's easy as follow the guy ahead of you, hold 90knots, hold 1800', and just tune and listen for your instructions.

You bet there's traffic, but that's what your eyes are for and the strict 90knot 1800' guidelines assure you know where everyone SHOULD be.

Fly it about ten times in FSX. Go down FISK avenue to 18 and do all the approaches. I should have started out with read and understand the NOTAM. Land on your dot assigned. After you do it with your CFI, you'll wonder what all the hub-bub was about. ;)
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Practice spot landings before you go. Makes it much easier when you get there.
 
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Practice spot landings before you go. Makes it much easier when you get there.
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Good idea. And if you land on 27, start your flare early and hold it.

Monstrous wide runways suck you in and you'll flare too late and bounce where tiny skinny runways you tend to settle too high unless you counter it.

It's a visual thing so they tell me. :dunno:
 
Watch the EAA Webinar online. This year's edition is tomorrow night. They go over the entire procedure as well as many of the questions you may have. It is a great experience and the webinar really helps get you up to speed. The main link to the EAA webinars can be found here: http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-...ation-videos-and-aviation-photos/eaa-webinars

The guy who presents is the guy who authored much of the actual NOTAM, so it is from the horses mouth so to speak.

Carl
 
Yep, the NOTAM is pretty detailed. The key is to just get behind someone at RIPON and maintain your speed at 90 (provided you don't have an idiot ahead of you flying 70) up the railroad tracks. At Fisk (which is harder to spot these days, they used to have some Sequenced Flashers all stuck together or a big balloon) they'll either tell you to turn due east which is a base leg for 36 or continue up the tracks which will bring you to the downwind for 27. (those are the usual runways, the NOTAM will describe the differences for 9 or 18).

As pointed out, practice flying TIGHT patterns (they want things tight on 27) and landing on either the threshold or holding it in the air until mid field (these are like 8000' runways). Learn to taxi on grass.

Make the appropriate parking sign (VAC, GAP, GAC, VAP, HBC, HBP) especially handy if your aircraft is of ambiguous type (a 1971 taildragger will probably be sorted by the north end down to Vintage and we'll just turn you around) or you want to park a vintage or homebuilt in the north 40. Years ago before they came up with the signs, I realized that Vintage was sending me to Warbirds adn Warbirds was sending me to Vintage. After the second pass through this loop I stopped and let the parkers know I really did want Vintage.
 
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Read and understand the NOTAM.
Practice slow flight.
Practice spot landings.
Do not perform a maneuver you have not practiced in the last 30 days.
Do not worry about it, it really is not that difficult.

You are allowed one official fist pump filled by a "Yes" upon slowing to taxi speed, and a celebratory adult beverage at the SOS tent.
 
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Flying into Osh is the easiest thing. Get behind someone and follow them in.

Last year I didn't get much flight time, so when it came time for the show I was one of those old guys (all that gray hair at the barber can't be MINE!) who we talk about who hadn't flown all year except for Oshkosh. Easy as could be, I have no problems at all. If I lived as close as the OP I'd fly in every day.
 
I make my initial landing at Oshkosh before the NOTAM starts (I get there way early to help park people), but I come and go a dozen times during the show giving rides to volunteers (or to go take a shower or got to Shawano). I fly the RIPON arrival probably a half a dozen times during the show (the rest I come in via either the WARBIRD or one of the 'non publshed' procedures).
 
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