HBC Questions

[CivEngPE]

Cary,
I just saw that I had a typo in my original post. We are planning to be there from mid afternoon Saturday to Thursday morning.

[DaleB]

Shannon, thanks for asking and everyone else, thanks for answering. My wife and I went in 2014 and stayed in Appleton. As you said, I feel like we missed a lot. By the end of the day we were wiped out and still had to hoof it back to the car and drive nearly an hour to the hotel.

Last year I went with a buddy and we stayed in the UW dorms. That was better, but of course there's still the "gotta go catch a bus" factor.

This year I'm planning to fly in and stay in HBC for a couple of days. I'm really looking forward to not feeling rushed and being able to enjoy the whole experience. Having not camped since my 30-something-year-old son was in middle school, we'll see how that works out.

[FlyingRon]

The very first Oshkosh I went to was for three days in 1992. Clearly too short. I've been arriving earlier and earlier ever since. I typically will arrive the Wednesday the week before. I leave the Monday after the show.

[Cary]

The very first Oshkosh I went to was for three days in 1992. Clearly too short. I've been arriving earlier and earlier ever since. I typically will arrive the Wednesday the week before. I leave the Monday after the show.

Last year I arrived on Friday afternoon and was truly surprised at how many were already there. I was parked in a row that is only a couple rows east of the new shower facility, because everything east of there was already full. No complaints--it was a great place, and I ended up with really nice neighbors and made new friends, like always.

I was one of the very last to leave on Monday, sometime after noon so that I actually had to call ground control and tower like a "real" airport. "Oshkosh ground, Cessna xxx, on the grass south of 9-27, ready to taxi for departure."

All good fun. I plan to do things similarly this coming summer.

Cary

[FlyingRon]

Yep, I arrive before the NOTAM turns on and depart after it. Oshkosh is a nice friendly airport outside of the show. I do come and go a dozen times between heading up to Brennand or Clintonville for showers or off to Shawano or just giving rides. I alternate between the Ripon and Warbird arrivals depending on whether my passengers have done one of the other before usually.