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Show Official Distress Signals 1 REOUIBF norma I 7' REUIRE SIGNAL I SERIOUS INJURIES I LAMP WITH BATTERY 13. REQUIRE SERIOUS INJURIES AND RADIO I FUEL & OIL 2. REQUIRE I I 8. INDICATE MjT MEDICAL SUPPLIES I I DIRECTION L 14. ALL WELL I I TO PROCEED I 3. UNABLE TO XX 9" AM PROCEEDING ,c VS. PROCEED S IN THIS DIRECTION I N0 l 'iirr F 'empt ,6-m- y V DAMAGED I DERSTOOd 12. PROBABLY SAFE A 18. REQUIRE TO LAND HERE MECHANIC Ul IF IN DOUBT, USE INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL ' 0 INSTRUCTIONS: l',hAUT SYMB0LS BY USING STRIPS OF FABRIC OR PARACHUTES PIECES OF WOOD, STONES, OR ANY AVAILABLE MATERIAL. 2 PROVIDE AS MUCH COLOR CONTRAST AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN MATERIAL USED FOR SYMBOLS AND BACKGROUND AGAINST WHICH SYMBOLS ARE EX. POSED. 3. SYMBOLS SHOULD BE AT LEAST 10 FEET HIGH OR LARGER IF POSSIBLE. CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO LAY OUT SYMBOLS EXACTLY AS SHOWN TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH OTHER SYMBOLS. 4. IN ADD). TION TO USING SYMBOLS, EVERY EFFORT IS TO BE MADE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION BY MEANS OF RADIO, FLARES, SMOKE, OR OTHER AVAIL. ABLE MEANS. 5. WHEN GROUND IS COVERED WITH SNOW, SIGNALS CAN BE MADE BY DRAGGING, SHOVELING OR TRAMPING THE SNOW THE DEPRESSED AREAS FORMING THE SYMBOLS WILL APPEAR TO BE BLACK FROM THE AIR. 6. PILOT SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE MESSAGE BY ROCKING WINGS FROM SIDE TO SIDE. Last winter many intermoun-tain intermoun-tain farmers, ranchers, sheep and cattle herders, living in isolated iso-lated areas, were left in distress when snows blocked highways. Requests have been received from people living in relatively isolated areas, for some form of signalling that can be used to ask for help from passing aircraft. air-craft. Such a system also could be used by fliers forced down in mountainous and isolated I areas. The above code, in use by fliers for some years, has been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Aero-nautics Administration, and is accepted as a universal ground-to-air signalling code. The Milford Mil-ford News published this code last year, but we again reprint it, and suggest that persons expecting ex-pecting to go into remote areas clip and save the code, for use in case of emergency. |