KSMooniac Posted April 9 Report Posted April 9 Anyone here participating in the upcoming clinics and Caravan to OSH? My plane is in the shop and hopefully ready in time to participate in the Flying Monkeys clinic in Wichita (24-26 April) and the Texas clinic (1-3 May). I missed last year and hope to make up for it this year. Quote
amillet Posted April 9 Report Posted April 9 (edited) I got signed off yesterday by Snoopy while in Las Vegas for the Henderson PPP. (Got to fly with Don Kaye). No clinics close to the Pacific Northwest since Velcro and Clippy moved away. Janet was gracious enough to take a morning out of her busy schedule to fly with me. Edited April 13 by amillet 1 Quote
KSMooniac Posted May 5 Author Report Posted May 5 Our Flying Monkeys clinic in Wichita got washed-out due to low IMC all weekend, but I did make it to the Texas Squadron this past weekend in San Angelo. It was a lot of fun seeing some old friends and making new ones. I believe there are two clinics left in MI and WV, so the window is closing to join the Caravan this year. 1 Quote
TGreen Posted May 5 Report Posted May 5 Won't make the Caravan this year, but will be flying into Airventure with my daughter hopefully on Sunday morning and hoping to get parked in the North 40 somewhere near the Caravan. Fingers crossed. Quote
Paul Thomas Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 Is there a way for non-caraners to park close the Caravan? I'm unable to join the Caravan because, with no clinic in the SE, it would take too much time for me to get the training to join the caravan. Quote
TGreen Posted May 7 Report Posted May 7 11 hours ago, Paul Thomas said: Is there a way for non-caraners to park close the Caravan? I'm unable to join the Caravan because, with no clinic in the SE, it would take too much time for me to get the training to join the caravan. Pretty sure they just park you where they are parking GAC when you arrive. In my past recent experience, a Sunday a.m. arrival has gotten me in the North 40, South of runway 9/27, i.e., near the Caravan. 2 Quote
Becca Posted July 6 Report Posted July 6 (edited) On 5/6/2025 at 9:15 AM, Paul Thomas said: Is there a way for non-caraners to park close the Caravan? I'm unable to join the Caravan because, with no clinic in the SE, it would take too much time for me to get the training to join the caravan. For everyone but mass arrivals, N40 is first come first serve. My suggestion if you want to be parked near the caravan is to arrive no later than Friday night. They rope off a huge section of the close-in parking in the N40 now for mass arrivals, and our experience the last few years is that starting on Saturday morning they put the arriving planes further out past the spaces reserved for *all* the groups of mass arrivals (like around the back toward Friar Tucks). Another good option is to come on Tuesday - though some mass arrival participants stay the whole show, a lot leave as soon as their Sunday or Monday mass arrival parties are over, which frees up "holes" in the mass arrival parking and you can get lucky and end up parked among them if you time it right. Just get intel from your friends at mass arrivals when this is happening its kind of random and then time your arrival. It happened to us one year as a happy coincidence (that was before the caravan people started shunning me and there were still MooneySpace parties at the mass arrivals tent where we all enjoyed pizza together, but that's neither here nor there). Unfortunately another year we got put in the middle of Cessna mass arrivals and you'd think that would be fun but some of those folks with all that Cessna cargo capability bring generators along - and seem to have no problem with running them overnight despite the extraordinary amount of noise it makes. Airplane noise = yes; generator noise = no. Edited July 6 by Becca Quote
Paul Thomas Posted July 6 Report Posted July 6 1 hour ago, Becca said: For everyone but mass arrivals, N40 is first come first serve. My suggestion if you want to be parked near the caravan is to arrive no later than Friday night. They rope off a huge section of the close-in parking in the N40 now for mass arrivals, and our experience the last few years is that starting on Saturday morning they put the arriving planes further out past the spaces reserved for *all* the groups of mass arrivals (like around the back toward Friar Tucks). Another good option is to come on Tuesday - though some mass arrival participants stay the whole show, a lot leave as soon as their Sunday or Monday mass arrival parties are over, which frees up "holes" in the mass arrival parking and you can get lucky and end up parked among them if you time it right. Just get intel from your friends at mass arrivals when this is happening its kind of random and then time your arrival. It happened to us one year as a happy coincidence (that was before the caravan people started shunning me and there were still MooneySpace parties at the mass arrivals tent where we all enjoyed pizza together, but that's neither here nor there). Unfortunately another year we got put in the middle of Cessna mass arrivals and you'd think that would be fun but some of those folks with all that Cessna cargo capability bring generators along - and seem to have no problem with running them overnight despite the extraordinary amount of noise it makes. Airplane noise = yes; generator noise = no. My ability to make OSH is looking less and less likely. If I do, it will be toward the end of the week. Quote
Becca Posted July 7 Report Posted July 7 17 minutes ago, Paul Thomas said: My ability to make OSH is looking less and less likely. If I do, it will be toward the end of the week. Bummer, hope you can make it! I think we're only going to make a couple quick days this year ourselves... Quote
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