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P.U.I.By Mike SpeidelWe're all familiar with the phrase "Driving Under the Influence," or D.U.I. for short. It's against the law to drive when impaired by drugs or alcohol. I'm sure we all have a story about "a friend" who once had a run-in with the law - some of us more than others.
Ideally an airport attempts to run at optimum capacity; requiring all runways and taxiways to be available for aircraft use. When maintenance must be performed, segments of the airfield are sometimes closed to facilitate those operations. It's generally understood the airport would like its pavement back as soon as humanly possible - and that influence can sometimes have an ill-effect on performance. Painting Under the Influence of a busy airport is hardly ever adequate. Striping equipment traveling too fast leads to a myriad of issues, and safety is diminshed. Our mantra is a simple one: anything worth doing is worth doing right... do it right the first time and do it better than it need be done. There needs to be a compromise between safety and expediency. In the aviation industry, time is not a luxury. However, with properly trained crews comes optimal performance and a happy medium among airports and operators. Oh, by the way, Sightline can make that happen. |
So what is a P.U.I.? It's an acronym for Painting Under the Influence. I can
assure you it has nothing to do with huffing ammonia fumes from a 5-gallon bucket of paint.
Instead, it's about painting the airfield under a different influence. In fact, the influence
is often created by the airport itself.
