Well I was looking at the Pilot Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and it said one can be ordered from a certain government website and the price was around $120. But as the first post states there is indeed one for only $12.

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This link has that same book as listed for $15 on-line or $25 'nearby'
Also - you do realize that the book you mention above and the FAR/AIM are two different books right?
FAR/AIM
On-line for $8 and 'nearby' for $17
USMCFLYR

Yes I do know they are different. The book I mentioned, the handbook, I downloaded and printed for free off the FAA website. I was looking at a site called the Government Bookstore (er somethin like that) and the AIM was listed for $160.

Well that is good then. Since the thread was all about the AIM (FAR) and then you started talking about the PHoAK, you got me thinking that you were confusing the two.

My guess is either you misread the decimal point and it was really $16 or else you should go back and find that link and report them to the Better Business Bureau because if they are really charging that much for a book that can be had anywhere else for much less then they ought to be charged with price gouging :eek: an some poor fool might actually be tempted to buy it :(

USMCFLYR

did the "government" website have .gov domain? What was the website? It might be a phishing scam.

Most FBOs will have a copy as well.

It's the Government Printing Office bookstore. The 160 dollar edition is loose leaf pages with a subscription for updates for ~2 years.

I checked to see what Jepp is charging for their subscription version, I couldn't even find it. They still do the regs for 109 a year.

Not the way I would want to go, but I guess if it floats someone's boat. The FAA is trying very hard to get out of the printing business! I would think that we would be leading the way with the paperless cockpit concept; sadly we are not!

USMCFLYR

GPO U.S. Government Bookstore: Main Page

here is the url

OOOHHHH that makes sense. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Also, avoid the common misconception that FAR/AIM refers to a government publication.

The AIM is a government publication. The government updates it on a schedule with additons by NOTAM. The FAR is simply an shorthand for Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations and is "updated" every time a new reg is added or one is changed.

The FAR/AIM or AIM/FAR books are commercial re-publications of those government sources at a specific point in time. And like any republication, it can (and has been) seriously out-of-date by the time you buy one. Most recent example is the 2010 "FAR/AIM" that had Part 61 of the FAR as it existed before October 2009 (a major revision).