AirVenture was insane this year! My crew and I had managed to get in with the Cessna mass arrival on Saturday which had marginal Wx. Then Sunday morning was foggy, and then ~36 hours worth of arrivals all came Sunday afternoon when the Wx was good.
We filmed the insanity of the Sunday arrivals from the ground (we covered the traffic converging at Ripon and trying to line up on the tracks toward Fisk (in many cases there were too many at once and lots of them had the good sense to bail and try again…. We also captured the insanely busy arrivals on runway 27 at the orange dot. We got to the Fisk tower to do some shooting, and controllers reported it was the craziest they’d seen it in many years. Anyone who flew the arrival that afternoon with footage they’d like to share for a “Flight Chops” video, please email me at:
flightchops at gmail dot com
In this Episode:
2000+ planes arrived in a few hours, and it tested ATC as well as the Pilots!
#AirVenture #Osh16 broke records for attendance: 500,000+ people and 10,000+ planes flying in; but due to a literal perfect storm, 2,000 of them tried to fly in all at the same time on Sunday afternoon – and we were filming.
This is a fairly epic story, and telling it in an efficient and engaging way required some serious mental gymnastics. I solved most of the creative problems and basically wrote this while I had a clear head and no other work distractions at the cottage last week.
– As some of you may know, we have Dan on board as an editor helping with some of the episodes, but this one was all me 🙂
Glad my “editing chops” are still sharp – hope you enjoy this one!
MASSIVE thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard for being a part of this one!
USCG Recruiting: http://www.gocoastguard.com/
USCG Air Station Traverse City: http://www.facebook.com/AIRSTATVC/
And for more context about how crazy the arrivals were on that Sunday, here’s a link to an article about it:
http://aviationweek.com/business-avia…
And some additional context regarding that visualization from Philip at FlightAware:
The data here is combination of (high-quality) ADS-B data and (low-quality) MLAT data from Mode S aircraft. Of the unique tails depicted here, there are 247 ADS-B aircraft and 106 Mode S aircraft.
As we discussed via email, my high guess for ADS-B equipage in the GA fleet is maybe 16% – applying that assumption to the ADS-B/MLAT split in the data would indicate that I’m probably showing 23% of the traffic. If we guess higher and go with 20% equipage, then I’d be showing about 29% of the aircraft.
So overall, I’d say that absolute best case, we’re seeing 30% of all the arrivals in this video. Which is still pretty impressive (and/or daunting) to think about.
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And here’s the link to Steveo1kinevo’s Coast Guard FlightVLOG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjrJ8…
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