A white x on a runway

[VonMessa]

Dude, you are freaking me out. Not trying to play God's gift to aviation here, but a professional pilot should pay attention to detail. If you just completed a low RVR landing and your taxiway centerline is solid white ... You might be scratching your wingtip on something, or about to come nose to nose with a car.  Same with your cockpit lights, steady amber, flashing amber, steady red ... Different color for a different action

If there is an "X" I'm probably going to assume that I shouldn't land there...

Besides, you mistake me for someone that prefers runways withOUT grass on them... 

[VonMessa]

Where should the X be?

[SFRT - Frenchy]

I hear you Messa, don't want to 'assume', maybe a white X stands for 'free topless plane wash'.

Btw, on a grass runway you dont put Xs, you put cows. (even if with a bad play on words some of your Exs could be cows).

[VonMessa]

I hear you Messa, don't want to 'assume', maybe a white X stands for 'free topless plane wash'.

Btw, on a grass runway you dont put Xs, you put cows. (even if with a bad play on words some of your Exs could be cows).

I think I would rather hit a car, than a cow 

[Golfer]

If you hit a car you arrive at a wreck.  If you hit a cow, you just arrived at a BBQ. I vote cow.

[PFactorDave]

They could have used the Meigs Field "Daley method".

I remember that.  Stranded a bunch of aircraft that were parked there.  Nothing like making your Xs with a back hoe.

[VonMessa]

If you hit a car you arrive at a wreck.  If you hit a cow, you just arrived at a BBQ. I vote cow.

Well, since you put it that way... 

[PR3D4TOR]

I vote cow too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhMb06ZLBY

[1sum41]

I vote cow too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhMb06ZLBY

[jigsaw]

In Chicago they just bulldoze the X into the runway.

[Reschke]

Look at the runways in Appalachicola Municpal Airport in Florida. They have both white and yellow X's on the closed runways.

[Shuffler]

Look at the runways in Appalachicola Municpal Airport in Florida. They have both white and yellow X's on the closed runways.

Probably because someone keeps trying to put O's next to the X's.

[icepac]

The location of the X determines whether the runway is closed temporarily or permanently.

A permanently closed runway will have the Xs covering runway numbers while a temporarily closed runway will leave the runway designation intact.

Yellow paint on the paved areas of an airport usually designate a place where aircraft are not to operate whether by design or because of repairs.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

 
Yellow paint on the paved areas of an airport usually designate a place where aircraft are not to operate whether by design or because of repairs.

Like the centerline of a taxiway?

[icepac]

I was referencing painted portions such as displaced thresholds.