Old CFS

[dwoodward]

Just wondering what all you guys out there do with your old CFS' once the new once comes every 56 days? Does anyone have a creative use for the book once its obsolete?

[F,D and H]

I use it to interrogate stubborn witnesses.

[C-GGGQ]

i keep some of my old charts around at home to use in flight sim but thats mostly IFR stuff like approach plates

[xsbank]

You could pile them all up and make a restaurant, similar to the cable house in Kelsey Bay....

[oldtimer]

In USA, you can not be violated flying without proper charts but can be violated for flying with out of date charts.
I fixed a wobbly table with mine once.
Also used to kill flies.
I sometimes donate mine to the homeless.

[Grey_Wolf]

When I had a subscription, I donated "old" ones to the Flight School / Students so that they could use them in Ground School for practice exercises reference. Same idea with expired Plates, VNC's, VTA's.

To ensure that they wouldn't be used for Navigation Reference. I'd use a permanent marker and put a huge line diagonally across the cover and write "Expired, Not Suitable for Navigation". I would also write "Expired" across the textblock. http://www.antcolbks.com/BookParts.gif

Also kept a pile of publication (CAP, LO/HI) on the computer desk like C-GGGQ.

[ScudRunner]

When I was undercover for the KGB in Wasilla Alaska (we took the bus from Siberia over) I attended a rally for the mayor and I threw my old CFS on the bon fire of books they were burning that night.

[5400AirportRdSouth]

Two of them make a handy set of chocks.

[Driving Rain]

[Hedley]

The level of sainthood (and hypocrisy) here is astounding.

Like almost all other (usually IFR) pilots that I know of,
I donate my old CFS's to VFR-only pilots that don't have
expensive pub subscriptions.

Feel free to report me to Transport Enforcement for doing
so - let me guess, it's reckless and/or negligent for me to
do so?

I figure a VFR pilot flying around with a 4 month old CFS
is probably better than a VFR pilot flying around with a
4 year old CFS, but what would I know, compared to
all the legal aviation experts here on avcanada?

[sugarfree]

The level of sainthood (and hypocrisy) here is astounding.

Like almost all other (usually IFR) pilots that I know of,
I donate my old CFS's to VFR-only pilots that don't have
expensive pub subscriptions.

Feel free to report me to Transport Enforcement for doing
so - let me guess, it's reckless and/or negligent for me to
do so?

I figure a VFR pilot flying around with a 4 month old CFS
is probably better than a VFR pilot flying around with a
4 year old CFS, but what would I know, compared to
all the legal aviation experts here on avcanada?

I like that answer,

+2

SF./

[niss]

I take it with me to bars when I cruise for chicks, I rattle off a few things like "Type J Arcal" and Tower Frequency, blah blah blah. Things like that usually get the girls to swoon, and I cant sing worth shit so 'you've lost that love and feeling' is out.

[Edo]

when did they change to a blue cover?

[MichaelP]

Dip them in resin, let set, cut across the corners, and you'll have out of date chocks!

[iflyforpie]

Did an annual on a plane this year that had a couple of the old white ones!

[Airspeed-Alive]

Target practice

[Naveed]

Makes good charcoal lighter.

[5400AirportRdSouth]

Seriously though, any idea why the CFS isn't published in an updatable binder format?

Would seem to me that this would make good optics for TC and NC to come up with a greener solution than churning out however many thousands of these doorstops every two months.

For the 75 bucks and change I theoretically spend every year ensuring I always have up to the minute copies, you would think they could afford to save a few trees?

Heck, I might even pay a 55 dollar processing fee the first time I picked up a new binder.

[Grey_Wolf]

Seriously though, any idea why the CFS isn't published in an updatable binder format?

Anyone remember the A.I.P ?

[C-FABH]

I have a really old Canada Air Pilot circa 1971 that was published in a binder. Infact, all the IFR stuff you find in a CAP today was combined with the CFS style data for VFR flying. I think there was one for East, and one for West.