Well, here I go! I went every day, just as I do every year, so I have a lot to say!

GOOD: 1. The requirement that anyone in Camp Scholler driving a motorized vehicle have a driver's license. Yay for no more young kids flying around not knowing what they're doing! 2. The improved tram routes...and just having the trams in the first place! In the 43 years I've been attending, IMHO the trams are the BEST improvement. 3. The air-conditioned, flush toilet trailers. The second-best improvement. Could more of them be provided?

4. The jumbotrons along the flightline. Hope the budget allows for more next year, especially for performers like Jetman, who can't really be appreciated as well from the ground. Until he starts doing low passes along the runway! 5. The removal of most of the tents along the flightline, and the gigantic speakers from last year. Glad they are gone. 6. The new food options were a great improvement.

7. The Aviator's Bookshelf tent. My first stop every year. Bought 18 books from them last week. 8. The Honor Flight return. While having them return early so they can experience the airshow crowd shortens their time in D.C., the welcome the vets get is so moving...great idea, whoever thought of it! 9. Seeing all of the WWII planes is one of my highlights every year. So glad FiFi has become a regular visitor again. And on the days when there are so many warbirds in the air all at once...well, wow. Incredible. Goosebumps and eyes welling up.

10. Bringing back the vintage EAA logo on more merchandise. I love my two Tervis tumblers! Eisenhower jackets next, please! 11. The CAP kids I talked with were very polite and respectful, and it was great to see them lined up for the Honor Flight welcome. Great job! 12. I love watching the ultralights buzzing around every evening.

13. The overall "attitude". It seems like under Jack Pelton, EAA is listening more to its members and getting back to its roots after several years of getting kind of "over-corporated". Well done. 14. I love that the National Park Service is there every year with a special airshow stamp. Missed seeing the K9 demos in the federal building though. Will they be back next year?

And the biggie: the quality of the airshows. I was especially impressed by Sunday's show; it was GREAT. BUT I hope whatever the issues were with Kyle Franklin can be worked out so he can perform next year.

NEEDS IMPROVEMENT IMHO: 1. Fountain sodas with ice instead of/in addition to plastic bottles, please! The bottled sodas often were warm because they were selling so fast they weren't spending enough time in the coolers. 2. More portable sinks for proper hand-washing. Were there any outside the Hangar Cafe? If so I didn't see them. 3. More places to buy ice cream. The one main ice cream stand always had a huge line and the soft-serve needs to be brought back.

4. I'm from the generation that knows that not everything needs a freaking music soundtrack. Don't need to be blaring music over the speakers unless it's part of the airshow. 5. The movie choices IMO were not great...James Bond and superhero movies are not really aviation movies. There are plenty of modern and classic movies out there that are truly aviation movies. THOSE should be shown at Oshkosh. And of course "Airplane!" should be shown every year! 6. On night airshow nights, please consider having the trams run longer.

7. Can anything be done to provide shade at Warbirds in Review? I just about had sunstroke waiting for Bob Hoover, and while I really enjoyed listening to him, his golf cart was parked so he was facing away from most of the crowd. 8. During the Warbirds in Review presentation on the salvaged aircraft from Lake Michigan, the warbirds security volunteer was quite rude moving people off the concrete pad. He had no one to help him, and too few traffic cones to mark out the prohibited zone, and the trailer was parked so you couldn't read the information sheets without "trespassing" on his turf. He conveniently had his nametag flipped so you couldn't read it. He had a tough job, BUT he was over-zealous and rude in shooing people away. 9. Fewer vehicles on the grounds if possible. I understand some of them are necessary, but every year it seems like there are more of them and the people in many of them don't appear to be EAA officials, security, exhibitors, etc. I even talked to a dad who was chauffeuring his entire family around in a golf cart his uncle, an exhibitor, had access to.

10. No more unattended stuff along the flightline. It's a hazard and leaving items there is rude. Post signs along the flightline if necessary, and as much of a pain as it would be, have the flightline volunteers remove the stuff. What if something blows onto the runway or taxiway and hits a plane?

And the biggie for me: NO MORE SMOKING ON THE GROUNDS!!! Cigarettes have no place around airplanes, and I found multiple butts on the flightline itself. I'll pick up trash as I see it to help maintain EAA's excellent record of grounds cleanliness, but I will not pick up cigarette butts. Please, PLEASE ban smoking on the grounds.