It's 10 a.m. Friday, the fog is lifting, and the field has just gone VFR. Adozen pink-shirted controllers in the tower cab are choreographing a dancedesigned to make order from the weather chaos wrought by a pesky low pressuresystem hanging in lower Michigan. Welcome to the Oshkosh tower, which for oneweek of the year becomes the world's busiest. By Friday 8 p.m. this week thetower had already seen 10,742 operations since the previous Sunday morning."Everything depends on the weather, of course," explained John Mullen.He's both the Milwaukee tower manager and a regional manager for the FAA."When the field is IFR, the best we can do is probably under 20 IFR ops anhour. We can't do simultaneous IFR approaches."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/another-day-in-atc-paradise-the-worlds-busiest-tower