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bLizZuE

bLizZuE

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It's that time again, I will be driving up to Oshkosh on Sunday the 20th and I'll be camping all week. We have a small group that camps on the corner of Butternut and 23rd. Palm trees with Christmas lights.

We will be serving slushy old fashioneds one evening, unsure which one, but I will update when we have that confirmed. If you're going to be at EAA send me a PM for contact information. All are welcome. We always have extra beer and usually too much food.


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bLizZuE said:
It's that time again, I will be driving up to Oshkosh on Sunday the 20th and I'll be camping all week. We have a small group that camps on the corner of Butternut and 23rd. Palm trees with Christmas lights.

We will be serving slushy old fashioneds one evening, unsure which one, but I will update when we have that confirmed. If you're going to be at EAA send me a PM for contact information. All are welcome. We always have extra beer and usually too much food.


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Palm trees huh? Upside down pineapples too?
 
Then there’s Cessna N4301R trying to fly in to Oshkosh yesterday July 21 from 14;30UTC to 1515Z obvious has no clue about the Fisk VFR arrival that everyone else is using and near-midair’s everyone else on the arrival

flightaware.com

N4301R Flight Tracking and History 21-Jul-2025 (KMFI-KOSH) - FlightAware

Track N4301R flight from Marshfield Muni to Wittman Rgnl
flightaware.com flightaware.com

It’s interesting to see it on flightradar24 playback where you can see his track vs everyone else.

even more maddening to hear the ATC playback where the controller is trying to tell him to divert to other airports and ride public transportation in since he doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing and he keeps stepping over the controller as the controller is assigning other aircraft on the arrival their final approach assignments before handing them off to tower.

 
woodreau said:
Then there’s Cessna N4301R trying to fly in to Oshkosh yesterday July 21 from 14;30UTC to 1515Z obvious has no clue about the Fisk VFR arrival that everyone else is using and near-midair’s everyone else on the arrival

flightaware.com

N4301R Flight Tracking and History 21-Jul-2025 (KMFI-KOSH) - FlightAware

Track N4301R flight from Marshfield Muni to Wittman Rgnl
flightaware.com flightaware.com

It’s interesting to see it on flightradar24 playback where you can see his track vs everyone else.

even more maddening to hear the ATC playback where the controller is trying to tell him to divert to other airports and ride public transportation in since he doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing and he keeps stepping over the controller as the controller is assigning other aircraft on the arrival their final approach assignments before handing them off to tower.

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lol I wonder if he was just some rando flying to OSH with no idea about air venture. Certainly wouldn’t be the first person to not check notams.
 
I was 17 when I went to Oshkosh in the Summer of 1971. A group of us met weekly at Omni Beechcraft near Runway 27 at BEV, courtesy of Jordan Patkin. He was a successful Cadillac dealer on Boston's Northshore and hangered a Bonanza and Cherokee 140 at Omni. Our group of a dozen or so were nominally Air Explorers as part of the Boy Scouts, likely as a tax deduction. Jordan paid for weekly ground school and flight time/instructor thru solo for those who passed their FAA Written Exam. Hell'uva guy, long dead now.

I soloed off Runway 16 at BEV in N4377J and went on to work as a lineboy at Omni, getting familiar at reduced rates in a Cessna 150 for pattern work. Went into the USAF after eight months or so and never pursued the career in aviation I once desired.

Jordan loved GA and he had resources from a successful career in auto sales. He rented a Greyhound Bus and took some 25 of us from eastern Massachusetts to the EAA week at Oshkosh. All these years later - and it has been a lifetime now - I still remember those heady days camping close against a cornfield while North Central Convairs (and more rare DC9s) mixed with homebuilts and GA and a few old warbirds on hot Wisconsin days.

It wasn't really what I expected or planned for, but the ride has been a damned fine one for these 71 years. May yours be as well.
 
woodreau said:
Then there’s Cessna N4301R trying to fly in to Oshkosh yesterday July 21 from 14;30UTC to 1515Z obvious has no clue about the Fisk VFR arrival that everyone else is using and near-midair’s everyone else on the arrival

flightaware.com

N4301R Flight Tracking and History 21-Jul-2025 (KMFI-KOSH) - FlightAware

Track N4301R flight from Marshfield Muni to Wittman Rgnl
flightaware.com flightaware.com

It’s interesting to see it on flightradar24 playback where you can see his track vs everyone else.

even more maddening to hear the ATC playback where the controller is trying to tell him to divert to other airports and ride public transportation in since he doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing and he keeps stepping over the controller as the controller is assigning other aircraft on the arrival their final approach assignments before handing them off to tower.

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Those ATC guys are great.

I'm sure it's a surprise to exactly no one that the owner of that aircraft is 75 years old. I'll go ahead and also wager he was the PIC. Dude sounds more confused than Biden at that debate.
 
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