Product Description

This pilot's guide contains the most updated information available for NACO charts and for procedures in the FAA's Terminal Procedures Publication, making it an essential learning aid and reference document. The FAA publishes charts for each stage of Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). This guide contains map and chart legends, helicopter route charts, and ocean route charts that aid all pilots in reading the charts and airport approach plates that are necessary to their planning and executing successful and enjoyable flights cross-country or in the vicinity of their nearby airport.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1919265 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 68 pages

About the Author
The U.S. Department of Transportation develops and coordinates policies that will provide an efficient and economical national transportation system and is the primary agency responsible for shaping and administering policies and programs to protect and enhance the safety, adequacy, and efficiency of the transportation system and services. The Federal Aviation Administration operates the world's largest aviation system. It is responsible for the safety and certification of aircraft and pilots, and for the around-the-clock operation of the air traffic control systems. The National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) is the charting division of the FAA.

Customer Reviews

Useful only for the most hard core pilots & instructors
The Aeronautical Chart User's Guide consists of five parts:

1. Explanation of VFR and IFR terms and symbols 2. Listing of NOAA (now FAA) Aeronautical products 3. Aeronautical Planning Chart Symbols 4. VFR Chart Symbols 5. IFR Chart Symbols

Section 1 provides several pages of interesting background on the charts you'll use in flying. This is the most generally useful part of the publication, especially the highlight of military training routes and class C. If you want to stump your instructor, ask him or her why the Maximum Elevation Figure (MEF) varies between 0 - 300 feet above the actual highest depicted object on the VFR sectional chart. (For the answer, email me or consult page 4 :-)

The remainder of the book is thorough, but most pilots won't use it becuase 99% of what you'll need to identify on a chart is listed on that chart's legend page. Thus, this book is really useful only for the most hard core pilots and instructors.