Yup, looks like a busy arrival time at OSH! Great fun.
Read the NOTAM, understand it, and listen closely, with eyeballs peeled checking everywhere for the one pilot who didn’t read and understand the NOTAM, and you’ll do fine...
Three mistakes in that video, pilot mentions one in the comments. He was messing with his ADS-B trying to silence it and he flipped back for a minute there to the Fisk Arrival frequency during the go around. He realized what had happened and flipped it back. Not a good time or place to have the frequency wrong.
Second, he missed the call to land immediately and got a little fixated on the purple dot. The controllers can and often do change plans quickly, so don’t assume a landing clearance for a particular dot is the last you’ll hear from them. Controller wanted him to plant it so the faster warbird could land over him, flying to the purple dot made that closer than the controller wanted.
Third, he didn’t exit immediately to the grass. It feels weird but that’s what you do, they want you off the runway as soon as you’re slow enough to turn off. Exceptions to this are aircraft that must have a hard surface (just let them know) and depending on runway, the mass arrivals usually high speed taxi all the way to the end of the runways they are arriving on. But for most folks, it’s “get off the runway” ASAP.
All in all, he didn’t make any more mistakes than a lot of folks do, and some make some absolutely wild ones.
Besides Jack crashing his jet and the F-16 run off, in the ranks of normal aircraft, the worst I’ve watched personally was a taildragger who so desperately wanted to hit his dot (not realizing the dots are for spacing and landing a little BEYOND his dot was fine...) he forced the airplane on to the ground in a tail up landing and then nailed the brakes... guess who had a prop strike?
Don’t do anything you can’t handle, is the other overriding rule. You heard the guy behind him go around... controller was surprised but didn’t really scold him harshly. He didn’t like it and went around. Always an option.
If you’ve ever wondered if the radio transmitters in a control tower are rated for 100% transmit duty cycle, OSH does it for hours some days. Especially if weather kept everyone away the first couple days of the show, the arrivals go absolutely insane.
What you also don’t hear in that recording is the same pace and number of aircraft are landing on 9/27 straight ahead of him on the go-around as crossing traffic.
It’s a blast to sit beside 9/27 with a receiver and listen to the madness and watch the landings in real time. We call it “sitting on the beach” ... bring a comfy carryable chair, something to drink, a good camera, and the aforementioned radio (please if you use an aviation handheld make darn sure it doesn’t get keyed and if it has a PTT lockout, use it!) and enjoy the show.
You can do it on the north south runway complex also, but you’re a little closer and slightly uphill from 9/27 than over there, so it’s a tad better vantage point, to me anyway.
I have no desire whatsoever to go to Oshkosh
But to add, hearing the words "rock your wings" and landing alive at OSH are one of those remember for life experiences for me.
I have no desire whatsoever to go to Oshkosh...
Your loss, but whatever.
I prefer going to places that very few people have been to or even seen, and then land there.
Crowds suffocate me.... or in other words, I enjoy my own company...
I like that too. I bet many of us do. I'm a low key country boy. I'm not a huge fan of crowds either, but for some reason, knowing that every single person on the property is there purely for the love of aviation, it doesn't feel like a typical crowd of random people with random interests. Sounds corny I'm sure, but when everybody is there for the same reason, each stranger I encounter doesn't seem as much like stranger as they might in the real world. A few hundred thousand people in Vegas, NY, LA, D.C.? Noooooo thanks. I'm out on that. A few hundred thousand fellow aviation nuts on an airport with every kind of flying machine imaginable? Yes please! Love me some Oshkosh!!!
Not picking on ya Zeldman.
Best way was to arrive while the field was 900 OVC. Very surreal busting out of the cloud deck over the show.
The worst I've had happen is that some moron in a 182 decides to fly the transition at 70 rather than 90. I give up and turn away just before Fisk. As I'm doing that I realize there's nobody behind me and just do a 360. Fisk guys say "Yeah, that will work." I still caught up with the guy before we got to 36.
Best way was to arrive while the field was 900 OVC. Very surreal busting out of the cloud deck over the show.
"Land immediately" ought to set off alarm bells with pilots. Trying to force the airplane down to the runway when you're carrying too much power is how PIO landings happen - Pilot Induced Oscillations or porpoise landings.
If you can't do it, landing is optional here, you can go around. Unable is a greatly under used word.
This, @Zeldman. I don’t like crowds either, but on all the weekdays (on weekends the locals come) at OSH, you can be standing there looking at an airplane and you know the “complete stranger” standing next to you looking at it will happily strike up a conversation about it and WON’T say the typical genpop airplane things. They’ll say something like, “It needs 50 more horsepower!”
Totally different than being in a clueless crowd. You’d like it.
I agree with your sentiment. However having controlled the show at OSH for several years, I will say that most of the time the plane that is told to land immediately is dragging it across the runway to get to the previously assigned spot. In those cases, just pull the power to stop dragging it in and land is what they are looking for. Not shove the nose forward and cause a problem. In this pilot's case, if he chose to go around he'd hopefully told tower right away as the war bard was "leap frogging" him to land past him. The controller would have needed to send the war bird around and tell the cessna to keep it low till one of them has side stepped the runway.
There are a lot of things done at OSH to get that volume of planes in and out and everyone (ATC and pilots) does a tremendous job to make it all happen safely. I've unfortunately seen a few accidents there but none of them were a result of an ATC instruction.