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Old September 9th 04, 03:16 AM
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Default FAA's new Instrument Procedures Handbook/comments?

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?
 




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