a Charles Linder snip followed by > my comments..
Not crazy about that,  Tried it,  Now we tip them right at the entrance. 

>drawing on a very old memory chip... early in the season in North Dakota when the air temperature was warm we used fume boards. Then when the day time temperature cooled we used back pack blowers.  In addition to the blower we used one of those light foldable table (X thing) like they use to have hold a light 'patio' tray or luggage in some motels.  We added a bit of canvas to one leg which acted as a chute.  We would set the table with the chute pointed toward the entry, set the super on the table and blew the bees downward onto the chute.  The canvas kind of cushioned their fall and they would march right back into the front door. It was a pretty clean and fast way to get bees off of honey supers.

>I have tried escape boards in several places and most of that experience resulted in failure. Somewhere along the line I decided it likely takes a bit of cool night time temperature to get the bees to move back down into the brood nest and off of the honey above the escape board.

Gene in Central Texas...   

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