A couple of people in the last 24 hours have asked me where they can download the electronic versions of the Department of Defense FLIP enroute publications and other aero related products.
You can download all the FLIP pubs in Adobe pdf format from their internet website at https://www2.nga.mil/products/digitalaero/enroute.cfm.
But the bad news is after October 1, 2006, these products will no longer be available to the public because the NGA is withdrawing them from the internet. They will only be available to DoD on their secure NIPR network.
Bottom line: Download them now before they disappear forever. And no, the FAA ATA-100 information base is not as accurate, updated and complete in coverage as the US IFR supplement. There is a lot of information that has changed, especially the ARTCC frequencies. The IFR supplement also suffers from the same problem. Neither publication has been updated to show all the new ARTCC RVSM related frequencies that have been put on the air.
