Well, my wife Carol and I made it safely to AirVenture from Atlanta yesterday, managing to circumvent some thunderstorms in the Evansville, Indiana, area. Given the forecast for the weekend, it was no surprise to see a very crowded conga line for the VFR arrivals, and the grounds had a good number of aircraft already parked. It was also nice to be on an IFR flight plan with a reservation into OSH, so we flew right over the conga line at 5000 feet and landed on the white dot on Runway 9. ATC was super.
We are on display with our RV-10 in booth 337 this year, so we had to park in the commercial display area versus the usual homebuilt parking. The crew at Boeing Plaza is super careful and very friendly as well! Ryan Skor and Erin O’Callaghan were wonderful in towing our airplane to the correct spot. Once tied down, we were very lucky to get the usual super service from the Homebuilder’s Welcome Wagon Service to get all of our camping gear to Camp Scholler.
The forecasted overnight rain did not happen, as the system moved south of OSH—which was lucky for us but not for those planning on flying in today. The arrival route into Fisk is hardly populated with aircraft, as the weather system has all but shut off VFR traffic from the south. It is supposed to be really nice tomorrow, so hopefully, we will be able to sit and watch the aircraft landing, as it is one of our favorite activities at OSH. It’s like watching a history review of aviation seeing all of the various types of airplanes arriving. We hope to see many of you out there tomorrow, and perhaps even later today when the weather is supposed to break. Also, the weather forecast for the week has changed for the better, with not much rain as was earlier forecasted.
