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Published: July 26th 2011
Storm in Dayton, Ohio
but it was only localYesterday was the big day: our arrival in Oshkosh. We first had a visit in the Air Force Museum (one of the biggest airplane collection world wide, and many very unique airplanes - its difficult to make a short visit here).
We had planned to leave Dayton (Ohio) in the late afternoon. But finally the thunderstorms caught up with us: when we left the Air Force Museum it started to rain heavily, and on the freeway it became windy as well - driving became quite difficult. And it got worse when we got closer to 'our' Wright-Brothers field - all cars seemed to swim with a large bow wave, and wind gusts splashed water around. So certainly no flight departure.
But at the airport, we had internet access and got a larger weather picture - everywhere was decent weather except in Dayton! And there was a clear gap in the thunderstorms - so we decided to try the escape and rush to Oshkosh before they closed the airport there at 8 pm - but fortunately in a different time zone, we actually gained one hour from that.
We had to fly a few detours around Dayton, but then
Arrival in Oshkosh R27 downwind
and the parking space is on the very right side of the picture it became fine VFR weather, and we flew along Chicago and Milwaukee to the RIPON arrival from Oshkosh. For the approach, we had to say one word only (27), and although there were quite many planes around and below us, it was actually an easy approach, because everything is well organized and documented (and we had studied the documents).
We made it here with 40 minute to spare, but we used that time to taxi to our parking area, which is on the other side of our landing runway - if we had known that, I would have said '36' in my conversation with tower and would have saved 30 minutes taxing. Next time.
So now we live in our small tent in the middle of thousands of airplanes - more to come. Today we strolled a bit around to get a first impression of the event - its a bit larger than Tannkosh, but not better...
Each afternoon is an airshow, and the one today was very exciting (the last show act ended in a giant explosion along the runway - a sea of fire as they call it), but at the same time there were still
much later at the campsite
now the tent has to be set up planes arriving on the second runway. It is a large airport...
We hope to see Keith & Drusilla, and Marcos, Lydia, Luca & Alenka here sooner or later. Plan is to leave on Sunday, Regina towards Chicago to jet back to Amsterdam, I to Denver to Visit Suzan & family + a small lidar conference. But that all seems so far away at the moment.
The statistics of my flight so far are quite impressive:
my total flying time is 52:53 hrs in 14 flying days (about 4 hrs every day).
In that time, the GPS recorded a distance of 7254 nm (13400 km), which is an average speed of 137 kts (254 km/h), still some benefit from the tailwinds of the first days. That on 34.6 l/hrs (9.1 gal.hrs) fuel consumption - not bad for 47 year old machine.
As a reward, DDN got some fresh oil and some cleaning today, and I will do a basic 100 hrs inspection these days - its overdue. Otherwise, its vacation now!
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keith &Drusilla
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oshkosh weather
does your tent have airco ? , great news that you ariived seeyou on wednesday