"Jim Weir" wrote in message
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... snip...Note that the easily remembered colored Fisk arrival procedures
(Purple, Red,
Blue, Yellow) are now called Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast.
Why
anybody takes a perfectly good system, easy to remember, and has to muck
it up
is beyond me, but that's the way it is.

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It would appear that the "Northwest" flow means that you are using the
runways "to the north" and "to the west"," "southeast" means you are using
the runways "to the south" and "to the east", etc. Intuitively, for
newcomers anyway, this should be "easier to remember" than "Purple".. (Which
runways is THAT?)