Oshkosh Live

[Eric Mc]

The largest aviation gathering in the world started over the weekend and will continue for the next week. This year, you can follow events live if you want to. Currently we are getting the arrivals. I love the ATC at Oshkosh - it's pretty unique.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQkP4TFNwck

[The Brummie]

I just went onto FR24 & hooked into Oshkosh.

It is massively busy. Light aircraft all over the area.

[Boatbuoy]

What struck me about Oshkosh (I visited the museum on a regular day) was that there seems to be runways all over the place, multiples of which were active at the same time.

I'm sure someone, somewhere knew what was going on!

[Eric Mc]

They are holding dozens of aircraft over the lakes that surround the site. They even advised some aircraft to put down at some nearby airfields and have an early lunch so the backlog could ease off.


The controller also asked if anyone had any fuel or other issues that necessitated an earlier landing.

One guy said "I gotta pee".
The reply was " I feel for you buddy - maintain the hold".

[JuniorD]

It's nuts. I was there 20 years ago. Seems like it's a matter of flying counter clockwise around Green Lake, get overhead Ripon at 2000ft, & align and fly the WI-44 at 90 knots and pray like you've never prayed before.

[Elroy Blue]

I have never heard anything like that, it's crazy.

"You're doing great guys. It's starts well but can end badly"
"That's what she said"

That controller deserves a medal

[LotusOmega375D]

Blimey. So it's not just the public in their cars who end up queueing when coming to airshows. Several pilots reported holding SW of Oshkosh for over 2 hours.

[eharding]

Flew into Oshkosh a couple of years ago in the right hand seat of a mate's Phenom 300.

Provided you're on time for your slot, IFR arrivals are a lot less frantic than the VFR scrum, although on final we could see a couple of grey shapes line up at the threshold, and at that point we weren't sure if they were Harvards - in which case things were going to be tight - and then two huge clouds of smoke appeared and what turned out to be Sabres poked off down the runway and out of the way in short order.

Fantastic week, hoping to get back there maybe next year.

[Eric Mc]

There's posh.

"Get outa my way, scumbag Piper".

[eharding]

Eric Mc said:

There's posh.

"Get outa my way, scumbag Piper".

Not really - the Oshkosh ATC just try and work around the vastly different performance characteristics of the incoming traffic, and they're really good at it.

My mate brought his Spitfire in the year before, and I gather arriving in that was a lot more eventful - although he wasn't complaining, all part of the joy of having toys like that. It doesn't really matter what you arrive in, as long as it flies! As we landed in the Phenom, I could see a broken down Yak 52 they had just hauled off the runway a few minutes earlier. Made me feel at home right from the start.

[Eric Mc]

The Americans are very good at making people feel at home. I'm surprised it didn't do a wheels up landing.

Oshkosh one of my "wish list" occasions to get to.

[eharding]

Eric Mc said:

The Americans are very good at making people feel at home. I'm surprised it didn't do a wheels up landing.

Oshkosh one of my "wish list" occasions to get to.

Put Oshkosh in the top three places on your list Eric - you'll never see all of it on a single visit!

The Yak was a taildragger conversion, and fortunately I think it had pneumatics problems - been there, done that, lots - rather than anything more serious.

[Eric Mc]

Grumman F7F Tigercat had a bit of an incident yesterday. Doesn't look too serious but I doubt it will be flying again during the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0

13:58 into the video.

[aeropilot]

Eric Mc said:

Grumman F7F Tigercat had a bit of an incident yesterday. Doesn't look too serious but I doubt it will be flying again during the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0

13:58 into the video.

One could make a comment about women drivers..............

[Eric Mc]

It did look a bit "tired".

[Eric Mc]

Air display live -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tqn6VW3CpQ

[tr7v8]

Eric Mc said:

Grumman F7F Tigercat had a bit of an incident yesterday. Doesn't look too serious but I doubt it will be flying again during the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0

13:58 into the video.

OK what is the aircraft in the background of the shot at 16:34 with the weird stub wing & prop?

[aeropilot]

tr7v8 said:

Eric Mc said:

Grumman F7F Tigercat had a bit of an incident yesterday. Doesn't look too serious but I doubt it will be flying again during the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKyvv9c-K0

13:58 into the video.

OK what is the aircraft in the background of the shot at 16:34 with the weird stub wing & prop?

I would guess its some sort of ex-airliner configured with an appendage for aerial test bed for GA type engines.

[Eric Mc]

Boeing 757 used as an engine test bed by Honeywell.

[aeropilot]

Great clip here from this years Oshkosh of a B-1B doing a dusk take-off and reheat spiral climb......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kci3xCPkRMg