Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #30765
From: <Sky2high@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: [LML] OSH arrival tips?
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:31:24 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
In a message dated 7/5/2005 10:46:05 P.M. Central Standard Time, olsen25@comcast.net writes:
In reading the NOTAM it looks like there is an option for higher performance planes to fly the arrival at 135kts at 2,300' (rather than 90kts at 1,800').  What have you all done?  I'd sure prefer the 135kts for engine and oil cooling as well as safety margin for when I get behind someone that is only doing 75kts.
 
Any other OSH arrival tips appreciated, including the camping situation for the experimentals.
Dan,
 
Go practice slow flight - everybody flying to OSH should.........
 
Even though the MAX/MIN speed limit is 135 Kts (or 90), remember that some idiots think that they should fly at their slowest speed possible, so be prepared to fly behind them.  I have gone behind (for a while) a Piper Cub that thought 65 Kts was just fine and, at the higher altitude, behind two twins that were hanging on Vmc.
 
Now, I find the best way into OSH is to fly the Air Venture Cup Race.  After landing at Fond Du Lac (the finish line is 8 miles SE), last year we flew from there to OSH as a flight of fifty, fastest plane first - What a piece of cake.  We land the day before OSH formally opens and park in a special area.  Try it next year.
 
Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)

PS: Even though Dayton is a little out of the way, the Race is too much fun to miss.
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