Recent content by mcdewey

I'm working on setting up the 2nd Annual AirVenture Irish Trad Music Session! We're tentatively planned for Thursday night (7/25) at 7 pm at the Ultralight Forums tent. Hopefully, it won't be so hot this year and more people come with their instruments. I'm especially hoping we'll get some...

The joy is in the journey! I picked up guitar when I was in college, but never took lessons so never took the time to get good. I can play simple chords and uncomplicated strumming patterns. However, I started Irish tin whistle lessons a year ago (after fiddling around for a couple years) and...

I retired in October. I had been (slowly!) working on my commercial I finally had the time to finish up on my commercial and got it done last week. I'm being encouraged to start on the CFI, but am of mixed emotions about it. I'm hoping to do more flying around for fun along the east coast...

There's always bagpipes.

They still post needs on a whiteboard at the volunteer booth by the Red Barn market. I've volunteered a few time parking planes on N40 and Vintage. It's a great chance to see planes up close, work with some interesting characters, and realize how bad at following directions some pilots and...

It's full of non-aviation folks that use Oshkosh as a destination for their 15-bedroom, 10-bath RVs.

Good thing Katamarino didn't post (Round the World)

Commercial Fly to outer banks Air Force Museum Oshkosh Lock Haven Piper Museum (especially since the town is trying to close the airport)

That's out of date. They've added the silver line. See this site: https://www.wmata.com/schedules/maps/upload/System-Map-2023.pdf BTW, the Green Line "College Park-U of Md." stop is just across the street from the College Park airport.

Bay Bridge is W29. It's a long haul from Downtown DC and in the summer you have to deal with the Bay Bridge with 5 mile backups. But we'd love to have you come visit. There are plenty of tie downs but hangar waiting list is long.

On the other hand, I was a software developer for 45 years until retiring last month. I love writing code and building systems. Currently writing a little program for church. I have to admit that I didn't get called in off hours (when I did I left that company pretty quickly). Yes, I was a scrum...

You are relevant to us. This is another great post in a whole thread of wise advice.

Hi Folks, The wonderful folks at VCS won't be offering lodging for EAA attendees in 2024 because they'll be replacing the roof as well as other factors. Part of letter from Debbie Wallace: "We have made the very difficult decision to “hit the pause button” on EAA lodging going forward. Why...

Thanks to all who stopped by! We had 20-30 people at some points. It was quite an adventure and about 10,000° in the tent, but we had a good time. Thanks to the singers who came up also! I got some great suggestions for the next time and maybe I'll be an advanced player instead of an...

Took us 11 minutes from engine start to takeoff at 8:33 Sunday morning. We were near shower house on N40 and took off 270.