Since I have been to every Redmond fly-in since Lancair has been in Redmond from the early '90's, I can help out here with some general info.  Lancair can correct me and fill in with some details as Kimbra has already done.   

 

The Redmond Fly-in this year will be the same dates as it always has been;  

 

September 2 (Saturday) and September 3 (Sunday).  The BBQ is Saturday afternoon/evening.  The race is Sunday morning.

 

There will be multiple activities during the day on Saturday.  Contact Lancair for details.  There is usually also a Friday night BBQ put on by one of Lancairs adjacent vendors (Mountain High).

 

About 50% of the Lancairs that fly-in, arrive throughout the day on Friday, with the balance arriving Saturday morning. 

 

Similar to past years, if arriving by air on Friday, before about 4 or 5 PM, the Redmond tower will instruct the pilots to taxi and park (temporarily) at Butler Aviation across the airport from Lancair (shuttles will be provided back and forth to/from Lancair)  This is as a result of a summer school still in session adjacent to Lancair.  They (the school), in past years, has gotten very upset (Lancair's phone starts ringing) with taxing aircraft nearby.  So, planes will be held at Butler until the school is closed in the late afternoon on Friday, before allowing taxi parking at Lancair.

 

Now my opinion about Friday flying in.  Since I have always arrived early on Friday to watch arrivals throughout the day, it takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the gathering on Friday.  Although it sucks, I still fly in on Friday in order to get together with pilot friends and chat during the day until it is time for the late afternoon mass taxi.  We eat Friday lunch at the restaurant in the Redmond terminal building.

 

One last thing.  When taxing in either day, please shut down well before your parking space.  The rest of us do not want your dust and dirt.  And Jim C. gets the same parking space as last year with his Legacy.  It is marked "student" (see last years pictures).  I will have my usual parking space.  It has my name on it (not really).

 

Gary Edwards

LNC2 N21SN

Medford, Oregon