jANET, I am sure there are many voluunteers working very hard, that's not the issue or facts at dispute or issue here. Would it make any difference on the procedure if my co-pilot who averaged 4 hours work, unpaid except for a shirt and lunch for 5 days this week had worn a volunteer shirt?
What Fred wrote about the procedure of giving a complete preference to large planes over singles. He alleges it is because of the wind making use of rnwy 9, and for safety. Well, as I wrote the same thing happend Mon night when they were using rnwy 27. That night after bumnping down the grass for about 45 minutes, just as I was reaching the takeoff exit, the singles in front of me pulled onto the hard surface. I was stopped so that a Citation, which was behind my place in line, could pass me and take off. Where is the safety aspect of having to breathe the diesel fumes and if I had taken off behind the jet, I'd have to fly through his wake turbulence? as it was I did not takeoff due to fouled plugs.
If you dispute what I wrote , tell me what facts that I have wrong.
I don't see an facts in your post other than trying to make it about volunteers. If you look back at what I first wrote there is nothing in there about volunteers, the word isn't even in my post.
I have attended Osh for almost 30 years, often bringing a show plane, some years two. The man that flew in with me brought two show planes this year. I have done a number of Young Eagle rides as well as presented several safety lectures. I don't feel that makes me superior to someone else, but not inferior either because I wasn't taxing a large airplane.
If that is going to be the procedure, be honest enough to write it in the Notam, and don't just hide behind a bougus claim that it had to do with rwy 9 and was for safety.
Finally, I imagine Fred is adult enough to answer for himself and consider another point of view.