Oshkosh Bound Posters, Approach Procedures, and Such

Oh, for corn sakes, folks. RST started the "Oshkosh Bound" posters in 1974,
long before EAA had a glimmer that they'd need some way of finding out where
you want to park, while "plastic" was still a dirty word to Burt Rutan, Paul
was Pope, and I had brown hair. Sheesh. And the personal computer was a
workbench full of little bits and pieces you soldered together yourself.

We PRINTED them until the pc became so pervasive and the internet so easy to
use that we posted them as files for YOU to print starting about ten years
ago. One year we mailed (MAILED, mind you) over 3000 of them out. I still
have an aversion to post office glue (WAY before self-adhesive stamps) in my
brain over that one.

We picked light blue and goldenrod because those were the two EAA colors.
We just stuck with them over the years. If you don't like the way we do
parking signs, by all means do your own. You want white? Fine, print
white. You want the traditional colors? Fine, have it your way -- color is
YOUR choice, isn't it. The color choice was OUR way of doing things 20
years prior to EAA even thinking about it.

However, now that the EAA has sort of settled down on its choice of abbrvtns
(why the hell is a word meaning "make shorter" so long?) for parking --
which have changed almost every year since they instituted THEIR way of
doing things -- so that the "Oshkosh Bound" will be duplicated on one side
of the printed sheet, then you turn the sheet over in the printer and we
will use the standard EAA abbrvtns on the obverse in very large typeface.

Talk about mountains out of molehills. Sheesh.

Oh, and by the way, black print on goldenrod is by far more visible than
black on white ... that's one of the things you learn at politician school.
Red on white is best followed by black on goldenrod ... just fyi.

Jim







"john smith" wrote in message
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In article om,
"Eric Bartsch" wrote:

I've looked on the airventure site again and I still find no mention of
using colors for the signs. Can anyone who thinks colors should be
used, send a reference to where those instructions come from? I recall
seeing people using colored signs in the past but couldn't find
anything relevant to this year...

Is it in the NOTAM?