Flight Guide - North Western States

For over 50 years, the Flight Guide Manual has set the standard for quality, comprehensive airport and supplementary data that general aviation pilots depend on. Flight Guide Manuals are produced in a kneeboard size format (5.25 x 8.25), are spiral-bound and weigh about 1 lb each.

Best of all, each guide now comes with the ability to get on-line updates. Information is updated on the Flight Guide website on a daily basis – so before you take off, simply check and/or print the relevant pages you’ll need for your trip. You will no longer have to receive paper updates for airports that you may or may not want information on. This is now the best of both worlds – a printed reference guide with the ability to print your own up-to-the-minute updates!

Flight Guide Manual coverage is divided into six regions, containing 500-750 pages each as follows:

• North Western: ID, MT, OR, WA, WY.
• South Western: AZ, CA, CO, NV, NM, UT.
• North Central: IL, IA, MN, ND, NE, SD, WI.
• South Central: AR, KS, LA, MS, MO, OK, TX.
• North Eastern: CT, DE, DC, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WV.
• South Eastern: AL, DC, FL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, VA.

* Washington DC is included in both North East and South East regions.

Features:

• Airport diagrams, radio frequencies and lighting
• Arrival and departure information
• General operational information and noise abatement
• Radio navigational aids, with latitude and longitude
• Full-page graphics for classes B and C airspace, TRSA and selected D areas
• Airspace rules and definitions
• Fixed-base operators: noting location, phone number, fuel, services and parking
• Food, transportation & lodging: noting distance from airport, discounts and free pick-up
• Recreational activities
• "How-to" section for ATC communications
• VFR portion of the AIM listing: airport markings, lighting aids, traffic patterns, wake turbulence, communication, etc
• Important phone numbers: FAA, NWS, airports, FBOs, hotels, and car rentals

Coverage:

• Six volumes cover 48 states:
  • 5 north western states
  • 6 north western states
  • 7 north central states
  • 7 south central states
  • 15 north eastern states + D.C.
  • 8 south eastern states + D.C.
• Contains nearly 5000 airports coast to coast

Cockpit Friendly:

• Designed for one-handed use in the cockpit-just hold it at eye level during flight
• Handy page marker allows you to mark your pages and flip to them easily during flight - only 1 Included, more available for purchase at right.
• Useful format allows you to see pertinent information-in just a glance
• Lays flat in your lap without flipping pages

Cost Effective:

• Each Flight Guide comes with annual access to the Flight Guide Online service - Free!
• The best coverage per dollar; no one else comes close!
• More revised airport pages per year than the other guides
• Low annual renewal fee. Other services charge more and give you less
• Save money with our listed discounts and free pickups
  

Information included:

• Airport name, associated city, identifier and elevation
• Longitude, latitude and location from city
• Fuel, maintenance, phone number and hours of attendance
• Communications frequencies: ATIS, Tower, CTAF, Ground Control, APC/DEP, DEL, and RCO
• Weather frequencies: ASOS and AWOS
• Traffic-pattern altitude
• Special operating information
• Obstructions and in-flight hazards
• Lighting aids (beacon, runway, REIL, VASI and approach lights)
• Navaids: VORs, RBNs, VOT and ILS
• Noise-abatement procedures
• Runway length, width, azimuth, surface and (if available) slope
• Non-standard right-hand pattern clearly marked
• Taxiways diagrammed, parking labeled
• Cross-reference to nearby class B, C and some D airspace and TRSA
• Airport businesses with phone numbers
• Food, transportation, lodging
• Recreational Information

Also includes:

• Airspace-Definitions and descriptions of the six classes of airspace, special-use airspace, and other airspace entities, including military training routes and VFR corridors and flyways.
• Using Approach Control-Contact and flight procedures for entering and transiting Class B or Class C airspace and the TRSA, including sample radio transmissions.
• Airport Operations-Collision avoidance, control-tower communications, traffic patterns, procedures at uncontrolled airports, use of AWOS, and ASOS weather-information systems, and noise-abatement considerations and procedures.
• Airport Marking and Lighting-Runway and taxiway markings and lights, airport signs, pilot-controlled lighting, light signals, and more.
• General Information also includes the key to decoding METAR and TAF reports and forecasts, a summary of NOTAMs (types and dissemination), a listing of toll-free numbers for hotels and car-rental companies nationwide, FSS and NWS telephone numbers, and ARTC Center radio frequencies.