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From: "F. Barry Knotts" <bknotts@buckeye-express.com>
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Subject: Re: [LML] OSH VFR Arrival
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Dan,

I've flown several 90kt arrivals in a 172 or an archer.  A lot of 135kt 
arrivals in a Bonanza and a twin Cessna.  And formation arrivals.  I've 
never flown a Lancair in, however.  Keeping the speed is important.  The 
135kt arrival worked fine for the Bonanza and the Twin Cessna.  I like 
it.  There are far fewer aircraft and it keeps you out of the riff-raff 
down lower.  If you can't manage 135kts for a lap around Rush Lake you 
may need to try for one of the IFR arrival slots (or the warbird 
arrival).  The most trouble I've had is trying not to overrun somebody 
in the 90kt arrival who is doing about 60kts.  (Lots of S-turns.)  The 
controllers merge the 90kt and 135kt aircraft somewhere between Fisk and 
your turn to final.  They usually call your turn(s) so the merge is 
easy.  I aways have a plan B (like Appleton), just in case they close 
the airport upon my arrival.  (How did they know it was me?)

Keep your eyes open, head out of the cockpit, listen (don't talk) to the 
controllers, load light with enough fuel that it's not on your mind, 
remember your tiedowns, take a passenger to help you spot targets, know 
the notam cold and keep a copy in your lap or on your knee, get the ATIS 
before you get to Ripon, anticipate that the controller may need you to 
do something not in the notam (I was commanded to go around on short 
final and merge with traffic on downwind when a bizjet came straight-in, 
unannounced, from over the lake), hit the spot on the runway they call 
out for you, get slowed down and off the runway and onto the grass as 
soon as you are slow enough to make it safe, have your parking sign 
ready, keep loose and have fun.  It's always worked for me.

Barry Knotts
LIV-P, building
Perrysburg, Ohio

olsen25@comcast.net wrote:
>  Have any of you flown the 135kt VFR arrival
>   

> Dan Olsen
> N320DK
> Fort Collins, CO
>