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Old 25th Jul 2016, 11:51
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Have you considered just using the information in the AIP? All the information you need is in there, and it's free.

The main advantage of a "flight guide" such as AFE or Pooleys is that they employ a bunch of editors who paint the airfield plates in pretty colors while the AIP is black/white. And they're bound into one book, while the AIP needs to be printed and will most likely end up to be a loose-leaf binder of some sort. But is that last thing still relevant in this day and age, where you can have everything on your iPad?

I haven't bought a flight guide of any type in the last six years or so, and have not ever regretted that decision.

(Except in one occasion, where I had to make an unscheduled diversion into Norwich. I was glad I had thrown a six-year old AFE in my flight bag, just in case. But even then ATC gave me progressive taxi instructions so I could have done without.)
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