Traveling to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008?

[Jeff]

This is a picture of our radar scope at Kenosha Regional yesterday afternoon. There's a definite flow of airplanes that go around Chicago's airspace then head NW to Oshkosh passing between 5-15 miles from the airport.

Each ring is 5 miles, altitudes are in hundreds of feet. e.g. 018 - 1800'

[440roadrunner]

Yeah, and that doesn't count the ones not returning an IFF !!

[Phil Light]

That is cool! I have a friend who is heading there this weekend. I wonder if one of those could have been him? Given the odds, probably very unlikely.

[Karl C]

When I flew the line for Skyway, we used to dread approaches into KMKE during EAA. Weekend warriors blew through the approach corridor without talking to ATC. Or the GA driver motoring along at 5000', 30 miles offshore, in a C172. Brilliant. Sure hoped that guy knew how to swim long distances.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Karl C

When I flew the line for Skyway, we used to dread approaches into KMKE during EAA. Weekend warriors blew through the approach corridor without talking to ATC. Or the GA driver motoring along at 5000', 30 miles offshore, in a C172. Brilliant. Sure hoped that guy knew how to swim long distances.

Yep, there are lots of great pilots out there and some you really question. We routinely have our airspace violated from a couple of days before Oshkosh week through a couple of days after. Generally we just look the other way, otherwise we'd have a stack of paperwork every day.

It is really neat to see all the experimental planes that fly through.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by 440roadrunner

Yeah, and that doesn't count the ones not returning an IFF !!

Unless it's a stealth, we'd still see a blip if they're more than 100-200ft off the ground. Just no other information like altitude and airspeed. We can even "tag up" those guys and track them if we really need to.

So remember, Big Brother is watching!

[440roadrunner]

So, you're an AC? It's been a long long time. In the early '70's I was a GCA RADAR tech at Miramar for 4 years. Maintained TACAN, FPN-36 "quad RADAR" and an FPN-52--an updated precision van from the old CPN-4 days.

Got to see some of the very first F-14's, and now they're obsolete. Makes me fell old. Come to think of it, I AM old.

Pacific SW (I think) used to have a standing contract with Miramar when Lindberg was closed in. It was "OK" for the Jet Jocks to use GCA all night, but dammit, when one of those airliners came in, we had to hit the deck and go check the GCA. It was a good excuse to get a snack at the tower. Those were the days when "flight crew" had stewardess's!!!!

[P51Mstg]

Just got to Fon du Lac. Long trip. Hope to get to OSH early in the AM..........

First one I went to was at Rockford (predicessor of OSH) at age 7 in 1967. Its CHANGED a lot over the years.

Mark H

[Merlin Driver]

Originally Posted by jseivert

Unless it's a stealth, we'd still see a blip if they're more than 100-200ft off the ground. Just no other information like altitude and airspeed. We can even "tag up" those guys and track them if we really need to.

So remember, Big Brother is watching!

100-200', OK thanks, I'll remember that.....

Lynn

[internski]

Neat. I used to fly into UGN almost weekly. Always keeping my eyes peeled for those piston pounders during that week.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by internski

Neat. I used to fly into UGN almost weekly. Always keeping my eyes peeled for those piston pounders during that week.

NO KIDDING! I worked there for 8 years (1998-2006) till I moved up to Kenosha. What'd you fly?

[oldvultureface]

We used to fly a small convoy in the early seventies to Oshkosh from a sod strip in NW Indiana. Stopped at the Playboy Club at Lake Geneva for breakfast and joined the circle west of the field until our color and type was called downwind for 27. Our plane would land on the numbers and another would land over us midfield. Great fun.