Forum: Civil and General Aviation

almost every flight line I have been on and around have a controlling device known simply as 'the board'

here is 'the board' used for the Australian Airshow Downunder at Avalon Airport. F-16 and other USAF fast jets are parked in the coral marked with the red arrow.

Aircraft silhouttes are sourced from Janes World Aircraft reference books to retain the correct scale, these are then glued onto and cut from magnetic strips

I am guessing the rest of the world does the same ...

any other examples ?

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Eh well, living under the busiest airspace in the world...with two Class B, five Class C, and about a dozen Class D airports...plus a myriad of untowereds, I've never see a board like that. I mean most have the airport diagram, or better yet, an aerial photo. But nothing like a ouija board to place aircraft on it.

interesting Habu, all RAAF flight line offices have a board like this

I thought they were common place - just goes to show - one should never assume!!!

in fact the board in the picture is worked on in an off site office until about two weeks from the airshow

then it is loaded into a truck and repositioned in the ground operations office where it stays for the duration of the airshow

like I said the board is drawn to scale; things get pretty tight for space on the ground at times, I have seen the parking coord measure space between wing tips on the board with a ruler to see if another aircraft can fit into an area

cheers

Beer

Yeah, I dunno about any USAF boards, I've never been in their offices. But as far as the civilian airports go, there's no need to have them. If it's used to track movements on the grounds, then a board is pretty useless around here, becaue we have a lot of airports that are untowered. Thus there's nobody there to monitor ground movment or placement.

Whilst working in Transient Alert in Korea, we had a board similar to that. We only really used it for the annual airshow, to fit all the aircraft in the little parking that Osan offered.

Forum: Civil and General Aviation

Other examples of "The Board" ???