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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 17, 2012, 12:24:19 AM
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For you FAR book worms, I saw a short runway in a canyon with a white X painted right at the end on both sides. I mean right at the end like to mark the last 10y off.
Private runway? Closed to commercial operation? Don't use the Xe :confused:d portion? Was out of yellow paint?
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They could have used the Meigs Field "Daley method".
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The X means the runway/airport is closed to operations.
I have seen some private strips marked with an X to keep folks other than the owner from using it.
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The X means the runway/airport is closed to operations.
I have seen some private strips marked with an X to keep folks other than the owner from using it.
Yup, we have one here near Canyon Lake that has the exact same thing.
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I like the big flashing X's that are on stands. They look cool at night
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The X means the runway/airport is closed to operations.
I have seen some private strips marked with an X to keep folks other than the owner from using it.
No a yellow X is a closed runway, not white. FAA is picky with colors.
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No a yellow X is a closed runway, not white. FAA is picky with colors.
I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.
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I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.
As am I.
The "X" means that the runway is temporarily closed. Some commercial airports have a trailer with a big "X" on it for runway/taxiway maintenance.
Color matters not.
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I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.
The FAA goes out of their way in an AC to denote closure markings as yellow X's. Whether some airports need not consider that guidance applicable because of not receiving federal funding for instance or for any other host of reasons I don't know about, I don't know. I'm not going to pretend to be "pretty sure" about something I know I don't know.
There could always be a notam that says nonstandard runway/taxiway markings. Our local airport honchos went out and painted a hold short line where there wasn't supposed to be one so we had that going for a while.
If its a private strip it may just keep uninvited yahoos away just the same.
Or maybe all you saw was some light from Venus refracted through some swamp gas.
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Yep, the raised X's are cool.
I have heard of a few instances where there was a white X marking a closed runway, but was later converted to a yellow X.
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Yep, the raised X's are cool.
I have heard of a few instances where there was a white X marking a closed runway, but was later converted to a yellow X.
I attribute it to a lack of yellow paint when it was needed, and laziness thereafter...
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I think Frenchy just didn't get the memo that some airports have roman numeral markings and what he saw was just Runway 10
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As am I.
The "X" means that the runway is temporarily closed. Some commercial airports have a trailer with a big "X" on it for runway/taxiway maintenance.
Color matters not.
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
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I think Frenchy just didn't get the memo that some airports have roman numeral markings and what he saw was just Runway 10
:rofl Dam ICAO.
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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... :noid
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Where should the X be?
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I hear you Messa, don't want to 'assume', maybe a white X stands for 'free topless plane wash'. :pray
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).
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I hear you Messa, don't want to 'assume', maybe a white X stands for 'free topless plane wash'. :pray
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 :O
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If you hit a car you arrive at a wreck. If you hit a cow, you just arrived at a BBQ. I vote cow.
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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.
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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... :D
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I vote cow too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhMb06ZLBY
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I vote cow too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhMb06ZLBY
:rofl :rofl
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In Chicago they just bulldoze the X into the runway.
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Look at the runways in Appalachicola Municpal Airport in Florida. They have both white and yellow X's on the closed runways.
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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.
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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.
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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? :angel:
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I was referencing painted portions such as displaced thresholds.
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isn't a displaced threshold white arrows? :joystick: bah who cares, I'm going to bed. Take off at 6am tomorow :airplane:
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isn't a displaced threshold white arrows? :joystick: bah who cares, I'm going to bed. Take off at 6am tomorow :airplane:
Yes it is.
Have fun!