Post Airventure

[ken nougaret]

Landed at Oshkosh Monday morning after the soggy delay. Parked in HBC due to them closing UL field. Didn't feel like packing everything up to try and taxi over after UL was opened. But still wish I could have parked with everyone else. There were some very nice KF's there.
Took off friday morn at 7am. Weather was a little sketchy at first, but was able to fly all day till I was just too tired to go on. Landed at 6:30pm in georgia. Got a room for the night and got home at 10:30am sat. morn.
I want to thank Larry and his wife for the excellent BBQ. My wife and I both agreed it was the best meal we had all week. And it was a pleasure to meet many of you from team kitfox. It was good to see Darryl again, sorry you had to leave before the BBQ. Bruce(airlina), certainly a pleasure to meet you, I could talk to you all night. And John Evan's, what a beautiful plane. It's too bad you weren't parked with all the others, but glad you were parked in my row.
Thanks again to Larry who brought all of us together.
Ken & Dori

[airlina]

Ken wanted to echo your sentiments. I just got home myself today (Sat) at 1030 as well, I was happy to read that you and Dori are safe and sound at home. The Cookout by Larry and his wife was a blast and definitely my best meal as I was cooking my own food all week. Putting the faces to the forum names was great and i wish I had more time to meet more folks . Every time I met a new member , we would fall into a half hour conversation on all things Kitfox. Also like to add a big Thank You to Larry and his wife for hosting a well organized event and getting all of us from the 4 corners of Airventure to end up in the same spot for a nice evening. Bruce N199CL

[bumsteer]

I'd also like to add my thanks to Larry and his wife for hosting a great BBQ. Attendance was fantastic. His wife had to be about 20 yards away to get us all in the group picture. For those who have followed John"s (jrevens) build and his excellent tips, I'll have to say he was as gracious in person, offerings tips to us as we picked his brain. Several of us walked away with ideas to incorporate in our builds. For those who couldn't make to the greatest airshow around, I hope you can make it next year.

Rick

[Delta Whisky]

It was a great time and opportunity to do a little R&D (rob ideas and duplicate - one of the greatest forms of flattery). It was a shame to have missed the meal but it was time to get home and pickup the painting. We did enjoy getting to put faces with forum members. A special thanks to Ken and Dori Nougaret, John Evens and Josh Esser for the time they gave us to do a detailed review of their most excellent planes. I'll be reviewing and making notes from the pictures I took for several days.

Hope to see more people and planes there next year. Cheers, Darrel

[fastfred]

I want to thank Larry and his wife also for hosting that awesome get together. Flying into OSH is a great achievement for many pilots especially us lower time guys It was also my 22 year old son Ryan's intro to cross country flying. He was In awe of our group and the scope of the event. The drone of the engine at 10000 feet put him right to sleep. I don't know how many controllers we have in the group but I want to give a BIG thank you for what you do. I traveled about 700miles each way from upstate NY and the controllers were friendly and helpful OH and very patient . I am not sure why sometimes there is so much static and they were difficult to understand especially crossing around the Michigan-Canada boarder. I am guessing there is a great distance for our radios from Cleveland and Toronto. It was especially nice when the nice young lady at the OSH tower complimented my every turn and landing . My weather was great except for the last 100 miles home and my last controller from Syracuse offed to vector me around some rain storms into my local small airport . It was a great trip!

[efwd]

I agree with you Fred. The ATC folks are pretty impressive. I unsuccessfully attempted to witness their work this year out at the Fisk intersection. (By car) I never found it. I was lucky to find someone else who had made it there has posted it on YouTube. Kinda Crazy.

[jrevens]

I'd like to echo all of the other comments about the barbecue... what wonderful, gracious hosts (Larry... I think you need to get a bigger truck!), and what a great group of people in our Kitfox community!!! I feel so fortunate to be a little part of it with you all. So many beautiful Kitfoxes... I believe I looked at them all! So much fine workmanship and so many good ideas... wish I could build another one. I am so looking forward to the factory fly-in at the end of the month!

Left for home Sunday midday... about 900 miles to Denver, but it seemed (& was) longer with dodging weather and bucking headwinds. Spent the night in Minden, NE, sleeping on a couch in the airport building. Home on Monday morning. 19.3 hours flying time on this trip. This was the 21st year I've been fortunate enough to fly my own homebuilt to OSH.

[efwd]

Wow, long flying days John. Looking forward to the Fly in as well. I just got the Friday off work so I am in!

[jrevens]

The days weren't so long, Eddie. Doing it in one day each way makes for pretty long days, but we took 2 days both ways. I'm getting older and I need my beauty rest.

[Av8r3400]

Thank you everyone for the kind words! We are happy to do the get-together every year to see old friend and make new ones! I consider it a Family reunion!! A big thank you also goes out to John and Deb for their support!


This year was the biggest so far with around 75 people in attendance (educated estimate).


We will do it again next year as usual.

[Jaguar56]

Wish I could have spent more time at the BBQ (and actually tasted the food) and with the Kitfox group in general this year. It was great to talk to other Kitfox owners and pilots. Next year I will learn to step back faster when EAA asks for volunteers. Thanks to Larry and his wife for hosting. And it is good to hear everyone made it home ok.

Until next year,

Paul Depperschmidt
2016 Kitfox SS7
www.blackpearladventures.com

[mooreaa]

Hey Everyone,

Wanted to add to this. The BBQ was such a great event. This was our first introduction to the KF community, and after spending several days at Oshkosh (first time also), there is just something really special and welcoming about the KF community that we didn't find elsewhere. Looking forward to following Nik's build as he gets back on his feet, and thanks for sharing so many of your thoughts on the plane as well as your experience. A big thanks to Darren & Mic for talking to us about their build and letting us check out your planes (was our first Kitfox that we got to sit in!).

Just a little background (intro), Ashley and I are newbie student pilots, just a few hours in, and we're learning to fly for fun because we live in the PNW. We're borrowing 172s from the local flying club for training, but had our eye open for something more. At OSH, we finally got to see all these different makes/models and have to say they are SO different in person. The fit and feel when you sit in them is really different from first impressions and looking at pictures. We looked at a Rans S-21, nice but planes a bit bulky and didn't like how we felt sitting in it. Sat in one of the bigger Vans, also roomy but too much sheet metal. Glasair Sportsman has a beautiful design steep price for all the composite work i guess.

Any how, we just found the KF community to be such a great crowd and in the end, after bugging John and Brandon for several hours we ended Oshkosh by putting in our order for a Kitfox. Now the long wait, and hopefully you guys won't mind as we start to ask a lot of questions!

Really enjoyed meeting everyone

[efwd]

Congratulations Aaron. You won't regret becoming one of us. Sorry I wasn't able to stick around for the BBQ. Enjoy your training, do it often and get it done. You'll spend less that way. :)

[HighWing]

Great posts. Thanks to everyone. Wasn't there and miss it now even more.

[bumsteer]

Larry

Any chance of getting the group photo posted?

Rick

[Av8r3400]

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I had had to edit the photo to attach f on my iPad...

[bumsteer]

A handsome bunch if I say so myself!! Thanks Larry.

Rick

[Esser]

Congrats Aaron! I remember doing the same thing myself in 2012, ****, time flies...