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Don't waste your energy on the idiots. The idiots won't get it.

Once upon a time I was in a flight of 20 coming in to the show at OSH from western Wisconsin. 10 elements of two in trail. The pre-launch agreement via telephone with the folks at OSH was that our group would follow the Fisk arrival and then be turned east to land on runway 36. We followed the instructions with each element turning east over Fisk. As I followed my lead down final I heard our tail-end charlie call to me "Wes there is a Baron behind you". Yes some idiot thought that it was a good idea to break in, likely ignore the call from the controllers at Fisk, and join our arrival. As you might guess, I tightened up on lead and the elements behind just made space so that they would not overrun the idiot in the Baron.

I think that I was in two wingspan out position on lead as we put our wheels on runway 36 together and I made sure that I did not slow down until lead did so. And I am pretty sure that Jared, lead, did not slow down until he had to, knowing that there was an idiot following. We turned off the runway and followed the flag-persons' signals to parking. Don't know where the Baron went. And life goes on.

Just see the stupids before they see you. You can't fix it.

Best of luck,

Wes