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EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh - 2005

eaa_airventure_oshkosh_2005.mp3 - 20MB - 57:42

Rose and I drove up to Oshkosh, Wisconsin last weekend for EAA AirVenture, a large, week-long fly-in/airshow/pilot convention. A main theme of AirVenture this year was the new "Sport Pilot" pilot certificate the FAA approved last September. This is an exciting new ticket intended to make recreational flying cheaper and more accessible. AirVenture showcased a lot of new low(er) cost light sport aircraft which this ruling enabled. EAA was also giving away free Student Sport Pilot certificates to motivate people to get out there and start learning to fly. It and exciting time in recreational avaition. If you've always wanted to learn to fly, now just might be the perfect time (or at least once Sport Pilot schools get established).

In this show, my wife "Rose" makes her podcasting debut, gives me a hard time, and enjoys her first airshow. I didn't do any interviews, but I captured a lot of audio from the show itself as well as a bit of radio traffic off the scanner. I included some of that in this recording, but if you're interested in more, let me know - I may post an additional file with the departure radio traffic in real-time just to give a sense of how crazy it is flying in and out of there at peak times. With the small amount of radio and show chatter I included, in addition to our road-tripping and story telling, this show comes in at just under an hour. For the trip, the weather was perfect, if a little too sunny, and a good time was had by all. We drove up Saturday morning, stayed in a rented house overnight, and drove back home Sunday afternoon. Driving time was only about 2 hours each way and traffic was light.

Enough typing - Join us in Oshkosh!

Some notes and links:

• 00:00 - Intros - EAA AirVenture - 7600 On Air interview - Flickr Photo Set - Oshkosh


• 02:11 - Inrto II - and it's 'wife and ME', not 'wife and I.' UGH.


• 02:43 - Ready for departure


• 03:16 - Hello to "Rose" - my fanbase - soundseeing to an ATM in Zion - Shakespeare in the Park II - murder


• 06:48 - On the road! - shout out to the peeps - Bristol Rennaissance Faire - we never hit any traffic, it took less time than anticipated - what's in a name, AyM? - dead air, um, dead air - bodyart


• 15:12 - Training at KENW - Now It's Overhead - Rose by any other name - I break(sic) for phone calls


• 18:27 - Dawn and Drew drive-by - holy crap! - roadside fireworks and pr0n - I've been to West Bend before! - Cornhole = Butthole / the drewhole - interactive porn? - tilting at windmills (photo)


• 30:32 - Radio chatter


• 31:02 - Fond du Lac pit stop - pictures of leaves - actually, there's a lot out west, I just haven't gone that way for some reason


• 35:52 - Arrival radio traffic (slightly accelerated, but not by much)


• 36:44 - Our arrival - stealing Nick Cave - bad South Park rendition - know when to say when


• 37:27 - P-51 climbout


• 38:04 - P-51 startup and taxi - Sweet and Lovely starts up (photo) - I rescued a guy's hat


• 40:51 - Waiting on the flight line - exciting announcements and missed pictures


• 42:10 - "Remove your cover" for the National Anthem (photo)


• 43:32 - Crank it up (photo) and get it started (photo)


• 44:52 - Wrapping up the airshow


• 45:15 - Recap and planning at IHOP on Sunday morning


• 47:21 - Departing the seaplane base - silly accents - don't go home on 45 - putting the 'flash' in flash drive - soundseeing without pictures - why do I like the word 'glorious' so much? - the sign-off


• 51:06 - Good-bye, but don't go away


• 51:39 - Dedication - NTSB report


• 55:33 - The Missing Man (photo) - Taps

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