Posted for "Lowell Fitt" <lcfitt@sbcglobal.net>:

 Kevin,
 
 I am helping on a LIV as my reason for monitoring the LML.  I fly a Kitfox
and have been on about a dozen extended cross country flights with as many as
8 other airplanes of various colors.  I can state with no reservation that the
silver - actually more silver gray - with the blue sunburst on the top of the
wing becomes very stealthy to invisible at more than a few hundred feet,
unless, or course it is above with the sky as the background. In my experience
the most visible is yellow.  White is good also, but the darker colors will
find their match in the background and will become difficult to see.  One guy
has a white airplane with a broad fore and aft red stripe mid wing.  He is
easily identifiable as the stripe breaks up an otherwise plain white that
might seem at a quick glance to be a white roof etc.
 
 We fly in a loose formation, and I try to place them all for clearance sake
and some are very difficult to place unless constantly tracked.
 
 This information might not help the Lancair builder as it is generally the
other airplane that you will be wanting to see as in most cases you would be
closing on the other airplane rather then the reverse.
 
 Lowell