Oshkosh Bound Posters, Approach Procedures, and Such

In a previous article, "Morgans" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote

I'm looking page 1 of the NOTAM right now, and I still don't see any
mention of colours for the signs. What drugs are you on?

Try to keep up!!! g

You're the one not keeping up.

That bit was supposedly on Jim Wier's site, from last year's arrival
procedures.

Look at the quoted text that you trimmed out obviously without reading.
Somebody asked why Jim Weir's site says to use coloured signs, and asked
if the use of colours is documented in the NOTAM. This "Blueskies" guy is
on drugs, because he said "Yes, it's in the NOTAM on page 1" and provided
a link to the NOTAM where it's totally obvious that there is no reference
to coloured paper.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
I trust the cut & paste under Win2k's telnet about as far as I can
comfortably spit a rat.
-- John Burnham

"Paul Tomblin" wrote

You're the one not keeping up.

This "Blueskies" guy is
on drugs, because he said "Yes, it's in the NOTAM on page 1" and provided
a link to the NOTAM where it's totally obvious that there is no reference
to coloured paper.

Yep, guilty as charged. I did miss him saying it WAS on the new notam, but
in a thread that went around and around, (quite unnecessarily) it isn't
surprising to miss something like that.

I did have a g in there, so please note I wasn't really on your butt.

I was one of the guys trying to read signs and send planes to where they
wanted to go, last year.

The color of a sign does not really matter. The darkness and size of the
letters (and the contrast) does matter. I'm guessing that my bosses told
the EAA that fact, so they deep six'ed the colors. Just a guess. G
--
Jim in NC

In a previous article, "Morgans" said:
The color of a sign does not really matter. The darkness and size of the
letters (and the contrast) does matter. I'm guessing that my bosses told
the EAA that fact, so they deep six'ed the colors. Just a guess. G

I would think that coloured signs are a bad idea - the reduced contrast
would make them hard to read, and there is too much variation in what
people consider the right color - ie if it specifies "red", some people
are going to have an orangey-red and some are going to have a yellowey-red
and so on.

I also note that the designations that the RST signs have are not in
keeping with the NOTAM. Instead of "GAC", he says to write "N-40 Camping"
or something like that. According to NOTAM, it was "GAC" in 2003, the
last time I came, and it's "GAC" now, so did that change in the interim
and change back, or was that a mistake by the RST signs?

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Every program has two purposes -- one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't.

"Paul Tomblin" wrote

According to NOTAM, it was "GAC" in 2003, the
last time I came, and it's "GAC" now, so did that change in the interim
and change back, or was that a mistake by the RST signs?

Dunno. GAC is good, because less letters mean bigger letters, means readable
from further back. The best is big BOLD letters. A fat tip black marker
and a full piece of paper, or light posterboard will be fine.
--
Jim in NC