Disclaimer: I have not attended a KR Gathering and I’m sure I’d love it if I did.
For the last few years I have been lamenting the decline of "Experimental Aviation" at AirVenture. It feels like experimental and homebuilt have become less than a sideshow at OSH - perhaps just an afterthought. I wouldn’t complain if it was just that everything else aviation was growing at AirVenture - which is great. However, it seems that the number and especially the variety of “experimental” aircraft has been declining. (The situation is even worse if you admit that RV’s are not experimental.) We have to admit that we are the problem. We, and other experimental type clubs, have abandoned Oshkosh. AirVenture is crowded and difficult - especially to fun fly during the event. But it is also a central unifying event at which a number of type clubs have significant, important, and useful gatherings. Further, fun/instructional/demonstration flying is not just possible but encouraged every morning and evening. There is nothing we could do at the KR Gatherings that couldn’t be done better at OSH. I suggest we have the KR Gatherings at AirVenture from 2018 on. Some will argue that we can have both - but that’s not practical for most of us. I’m guessing that like 90% of the members of this group, while we would love to attend a KR Gathering the costs in time and $ can not be justified in light of the many other things in our lives. Most anyone working or on a budget will have to pick one or the other, at best. However, if the KR Gathering is at AirVenture many more of our members could/would attend. If the KR Gathering is at AirVenture, we could more easily draw on outside expertise such as talks to us and hands on support by William Wynne (Corvair), Scott Casler (VW), etc. If the KR Gathering is at AirVenture, attendees could learn from the unparalleled gathering of resources and vendors gathered at OSH. Importantly, we can expose many more to the attractions of KR aircraft rather than just preaching to the same hard core choir. The only supportable argument I can imagine for KR Gatherings separate from OSH, is that many can’t make the 1,300 mile trip to OSH from one coast or the other. And that argument is completely nullified by having the KR Gatherings in the mid-west every year or every other year. So please, lets have the KR Gatherings at OSH - the advantages are huge, the disadvantages are addressable. If not, then at least lets move them around the country. Cheers, Owen Hughes > On Aug 24, 2017, at 9:00 AM, krnet-requ...@list.krnet.org wrote: > > > I thought that in 2016 that we agreed that every other year (even years) we > would have our gathering at Mt. Vernon, IL. If that is correct can we > discuss 2019 at this years meeting? > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
