Biff Smith wrote:
As the FAA becomes more like HUD and full of unqualified minorities, you
will see more and more of this nonsense.

So in order to be "qualified" you must be a non-minority?

My guess is the FAA will be
dead within 10 years and private industry will be running the Air
Traffic control system anyway. This new ILS handbook is just another
example of "Guvment" dumb down.

To be precise, it's not an "ILS handbook". Were you trying to dumb it
down for us?

Antonio


Mitty wrote:

I got mine last week. I'm very disappointed. Although there is a lot
of valuable material in it and the graphics are very, very nice, it is
possibly the worst organized book I have ever seen. Both in the
writing and in the layout & typography. For example, three levels of
unnumbered headings are all left-justified in Helvetica bold caps,
differentiated only by being in what appears one point differences
type sizes, like 12, 11, and 10. This makes the structure very hard
to follow.

It is represented as "a technical reference for professional pilots."
But the index is very weak, not really suitable for a reference, and
the technical material ranges widely from valuable to irrelevant
(ARINC 424 computer record layouts) to sophomoric (how to calculate
descents).

I guess the reason I am so unhappy is that there is a fair amount of
good material here but it is like picking through a dumpster to find
it. If the material was uniformly weak, I would just toss the book
out and write the cost off to experience, but that is not the case.

I am off base here? Anybody else looked at it?