Terrific Oshkosh Airventure 2012 App from Sporty's

For all you smartphone and iPad users, here's a great guide to Oshkosh from Sporty's Pilot Shop. You can read all the details here, and I'm posting a couple of my own screens.

There's lots to like, because anybody who's been to the Big Show (It'll be my 32 year this year) knows it's total overwhelm trying to figure out where to go to see what and figure out when, etc.

There are several main-screen menus:

Get Herefor pilots flying into the show,with arrival procedures to follow for how to best get to your destination (Seaplane Base, parking at Wittman Field) along with NO TAMs and lots more
Schedules of daily airshow performers (they can change from day to day), Forums, Workshops, Evening Events and Daily Highlights, as well as a My Schedule for saving your own custom "to do" list
Facilities which gives detailed maps of the entire grounds as well as exhibit hangar maps with individual booth numbers, which you can use to track down companies you want to visit with the menu tab...
Exhibitors: This page has a complete list of every exhibitor on the field, alphabetically listed and with each company's booth number in hypertext. Just touch the number and you'll go right to the map of the area its in, with its booth highlighted with a red pin! Can't beat that: Sporty's provided a valuable service for showgoers, if you've got a smartphone, I urge you to download this app, it's really useful, well thought out, and a snap to navigate...and it'll save you miles of walking, trust me. I used it last year and it saved me hours of aimless wandering, because Oshkosh is nothing if not all over the map!

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"If it flies, it's cool" pretty much nails the ethos of James Lawrence. Milestones along the taxiway include boyhood obsessions with airplane models and science fiction; first flight lesson at 15 (Piper Cub); cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, (class of '67); sailplane lessons in the California desert when he could afford it; built and flew his first hang glider (1973); magazine and book author and actor (TJ on tv's SWAT); former Editor (Ultralight Aircraft, Outdoor Photographer, Plane & Pilot); freelance writer/photographer since 1992; current LSA Editor-at-Large. Rents a local Piper Cub in Great Barrington; still loves the sky, from ground and air.