Hi forum,

I have a question/subject concerning the "VFR" and "non-VFR"-AIPs in SkyDemon.

e.g. for Czech Republic there is one AIP "Czech Republic" and one named "Czech Republic (VFR)"‌‌‌‌. This difference is also given in the german AIP. It seems, that SkyDemon comes with the IFR-AIP and I can´t find a dedicated "German VFR-AIP" But in "real life" is a VFR-AIP. The difference between VFR and IFR-AIP is the publishing date and an 14 days-offset when changes will be effective. The date of published data has an offset of 14 days between VFR and IFR.

For SD I have purchased the German AIP-Plates‌‌ and I´v found some aerodrome-information concerning smaller airfields which is only found in the German VFR-AIP. So far so good, but the rest of the german AIP (General, Enroute...) seems to be the IFR-Part.

My question is: doesn´t DFS offer the VFR-Part ‌‌to SD or is the German VFR-part simply not offered in SD?

Thanks for your time and answer,
Renzo‌‌‌

I will ask Eisenschmidt if there is a good reason why we only sell the charts (mainly) and not the textual part.

I suspect that the legal documents that are the main German AIP (which we do supply, for free) are all you need when used in combination with the VAC from the VFR AIP.

Thanks very much Tim that you´ll ask Eisenschmidt concerning the textual part.
Yes, you offer the German AIP for free, but this is the IFR-Part. Maybe some portions are similar to the VFR-part but not all. I compared it with my printed version. And one big difference between IFR and VFR-part ist the "effective date". They have an offset of 14 days.

I think this is a "real german" problem because each other country offers the AIP digitally and for free.‌‌ I also looked at Eisenschmidt for a complete digital version of the AIP VFR but I did not find one. Perhaps I have to look once more, closer.

Maybe I am wrong: But I remember, I have seen the textual part.
This weekend I was missing itt, because‌ we needed phone numbers of an airfield and the opening hours   it was EDFR.

Neither phone numbers nor opening hours are available ( not under Admin information, nor under the VFR-AIP). This is very disappointing!