Archive for category Airport/Facility Directory
Pilot’s Guide to Southwest
Posted by Pilot Shop in Airport/Facility Directory on April 24th, 2009

One of the most detailed and useful airport guides ever published. Major features include: photographs, approach maps, detailed runway and airport drawings, transportation, food & lodging information.
Pilot’s Guide to the Southwest includes:ARIZONA
COLORADO
NEVADA
NEW MEXICO
UTAH
Five full pages for each Tower Airport cover all the standard data plus what instructions to expect from the tower; a fold-out approach map with drawings of the visual reporting points that the tower uses; a detailed airport surface map showing taxiways, FBOs, transient parking and fuel islands; and a full listing of services offered by each FBO. Each non-tower airport has one page with similar comprehensive detail. The Guide has over 550 pages and more than 1000 photographs, maps and diagrams.
Size: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ pages, 7″ x 9″ x 2″ orange vinyl binder.
Pilot’s Guide To Northwest
Posted by Pilot Shop in Airport/Facility Directory on April 24th, 2009

Pilot’s Guides are one of the most detailed and useful airport guides ever published. Major features include: photographs, approach maps, detailed runway and airport drawings, transportation, food & lodging information.
The Pilot’s Guide to the NorthWest includes:IDAHO
MONTANA
OREGON
WASHINGTON
WYOMING
Pilots Guide to Northwestern Airports features the same comprehensive format as Pilots Guide to California Airports. Five full pages for each Tower Airport cover all the standard data plus what instructions to expect from the tower; a fold-out approach map with drawings of the visual reporting points that the tower uses; a detailed airport surface map showing taxiways, FBOs, transient parking and fuel islands; and a full listing of services offered by each FBO. Each non-tower airport has a half page with similar comprehensive detail.
The Pilot’s Guide to the Northwest has over 400 pages and more than 800 photographs, maps and diagrams.
Size: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ pages, 7 1/2″ x 9″ x 1 3/4″ green vinyl binder
Pilot’s Guide to California
Posted by Pilot Shop in Airport/Facility Directory on April 24th, 2009

One of the most detailed and useful airport guides ever published. Major features include: photographs, approach maps, detailed runway and airport drawings, transportation, food & lodging information.
This is the book that sets the standard for what an airport guide should be. Five full pages for each Tower Airport cover all the standard data plus what instructions to expect from the tower; a fold-out approach map with drawings of the visual reporting points that the tower uses; a detailed airport surface map showing taxiways, FBOs, transient parking and fuel islands; and a full listing of services offered by each FBO. Each non-tower airport has a half page with similar comprehensive detail. The Guide has over 400 pages and more than 600 photographs, maps and diagrams.
Size: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ pages, 7 1/2″ x 9″ x 1 3/4″ blue vinyl binder.
ChartCase Electronic Flight Bag
Posted by Pilot Shop in Airport/Facility Directory on April 24th, 2009

ChartCase Electronic Flight Bag
Selected best EFB and easiest to use by independent reviewers, ChartCase EFB software provides practical and affordable paperless cockpit capabilitydelivering it all, theres nothing left to buy to have all digital charts right at your fingertips! Whether you need charts for planning purposes, live navigation in the aircraft, or for simulator flying, ChartCase EFB is the solution. You get it all: every sectional chart, WAC chart, low enroute chart, every instrument procedure including departure and arrival, plus exclusive relief shaded seamless vector charts for the conterminous (48) United States. In addition to the digital chart services, you get flight planning tools, graphical weight and balance, auto-flight planning (direct, GPS, airway, VOR), flight log and flight plan forms, IFR tripkits, VFR tripkits, and weather!
This revolutionary total-electronic solution is compliant with Advisory Circular 120-76A certification guidelines, and features a moving map on all charts. It also includes a comprehensive flight planner tool. This is the perfect companion software to the On Top desktop flight simulators!
System requirements: Windows XP, Pentium 1.2GHz, 512 MB RAM, 15 GB disk space (software requires about 10 GB), external or internal DVD drive (used only for install purposes).
The Aviation Consumer selected ChartCase as their top choice when comparing all the top EFB contenders: “ChartCase comes the closest in our book for doing it all and doing it gracefully.”
Julie Boatman of AOPA Pilot praised ChartCase as “Robust software for flight planning, chart selection, and cockpit operation…that moves smoothly into the cockpit, which matches the performance of the best EFBs on the market at a reasonable price.” And flight testers found it easy to access with logical tabs, plus “easy to read, large, and easy to scroll.”
Stephen Showalter of Showalter Flying Service writes “ChartCase is truly amazing. Installation was easy, the link to my Garmin 296 was easy, and it all works as advertised. I’m one of the folks that wants the paper backup… but the tripkit looks like it will make that job a no-brainer. Thanks for developing a professional piece of software for pilots.”
Airport Directories
Posted by Pilot Shop in Airport/Facility Directory on April 24th, 2009

The Airport Facility Directory is a pilot’s manual that contains data on public use and joint use airports, seaplane bases heliports, VFR airport sketches, NAVAIDs, communications data, weather data sources, airspace, special notices, and operational procedures. The seven volumes cover the conterminous United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
The Airport Facility Directory includes data that cannot be readily depicted in graphic form: e.g., airport hours of operation, types of fuel available, runway data, lighting codes, etc. The Airport/Facility Directory also provides a means for pilots to update visual navigation charts between editions dates; i.e., the Airport/Facility Directory is published every 56 days while the VFR Sectional and Terminal Area Charts are generally revised each six months.
The Airport Facility Directory volumes are side-bound 5-3/8 x 8-1/4 inches.
