What is incorrect is your apparent expectation that an event the size of the LAA Rally won't have a detailed guidance document!
To make that detail easy to use, the LAA have chosen - just like the EAA have - to break out the useful stuff for clarity. That means much repetition, but this isn't a novel so in these cases repetition is
good. You discard the stuff you don't want, and immediately know where to look for the stuff you do.
There are 4 possible arrival procedures (2 parallel runways, 2 directions) which inherently requires 3 pages each (inc. taxy diagram).
- That is 12 pages straight away.
- 2 pages are large, clear signs with a single letter on denoting Fuel required and Disabled Persons on Board. Those could have been left out, but they will be convenient fort those that need them so why not?
- 2 pages comprise the airside safety leaflet. Wait until the pilot and pax get to the entry gate? Well, you could but that's hardly good practice.
- 2 pages are a quick cross-reference to key subjects. Not a good idea to simplify? I'd say it is.
- 2 pages are helicopter procedures. Well, you might not want those - but several people will. And actually, why not give the option for the FW people to know what to expect from the RW pilots? Sounds safe to me.
- 1 page shows the dimensions of the RA(T). Yep, quite like that, thanks.
- 2 page gives the National and Farnborough LARS coverage. Available elsewhere, sure - but given previous years' infringement experience, which wouldn't you help pilots out with that?
So that makes 23 pages of really quite valuable information.
The remaining 6 pages are a pithy description of the rescue facilities at Sywell, whether there will be a display (No), what to do if you have a radio failure or an emergency, what the operating hours are, where and how do you park, what if you need to go-around, IFR arrivals (hint: Don't); Booking In on Arrival.
There's a lot in those 6 pages; do you think any of it is useless or unhelpful?
Now take a look at the Oshkosh equivalent -oho, the layout doesn't look too different. Above a few hundred visitors, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that there isn't a natural lower limit to the pages needed to impart key information once you have a simple arrival procedure (as both events do, standfast the traffic volumes). Or that the lower limit isn't a couple of sheets.
What would
YOU leave out?