Flying Around Alaska
Find practical resources for planning and operating flights throughout Alaska, including weather, airports, airspace, communications, backcountry flying, and emergency preparedness. This section is especially useful for local pilots, commercial operators, and anyone preparing to fly in Alaska’s remote and rapidly changing conditions.
Flight Planning
Charts & Alaska Chart Supplement
KEEP YOUR CHARTS CURRENT
Aeronautical information changes rapidly, so it is important that pilots check the effective dates on each aeronautical chart and publication. To avoid danger, it is important to always use current editions and discard obsolete charts and publications.
To confirm that a chart or publication is current, refer to the next scheduled effective date printed on the cover. Pilots should also check NOTAMs for important updates between chart and publication cycles that are essential for safe flight
Aeronautical Chart Users' Guide
This Chart Users' Guide is an introduction to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) aeronautical charts and publications. It is useful to new pilots as a learning aid, and to experienced pilots as a quick reference guide.
The FAA is the source for all data and information utilized in the publishing of aeronautical charts through authorized publishers for each stage of Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) air navigation including training, planning, and departures, enroute (for low and high altitudes), approaches, and taxiing charts.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/aero_guide/
VFR Charts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) digital-Visual Chart series is designed to meet the needs of users who require georeferenced raster images of FAA Visual Flight Rules (VFR) charts. An Aeronautical Raster Chart is a digital image of an FAA VFR Chart. All information that is part of the paper chart is included in the file. The area inside the neat line is georeferenced to the surface of the earth. Only the main body of the chart is accurately georeferenced.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/vfr/
IFR Enroute Charts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) IFR Enroute Aeronautical Chart series is designed to meet the needs of users who require a digital version chart. The product is provided as a Portable Document Format (pdf), and available for viewing from this website. The pdf formatted charts are created from their respective native chart files. All information that is part of the paper IFR Enroute aeronautical chart is included in the pdf image.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/ifr/
IFR Enroute Charts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) IFR Enroute Aeronautical Chart series is designed to meet the needs of users who require a digital version chart. The product is provided as a Portable Document Format (pdf), and available for viewing from this website. The pdf formatted charts are created from their respective native chart files. All information that is part of the paper IFR Enroute aeronautical chart is included in the pdf image.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/ifr/
Chart Supplement Alaska
This is a civil/military flight information publication issued by the FAA every 56 days. This single volume book is designed for use with appropriate IFR or VFR charts. The Chart Supplement Alaska contains data including, but not limited to, airports, NAVAIDs, communications data, weather data sources, special notices, non-regulatory operational procedures, and airport diagrams. The publication also includes uniquely geographical operational requirements such as area notices and emergency procedures.
NOTAMs & TFRs
Chart Supplement Alaska
This is a civil/military flight information publication issued by the FAA every 56 days. This single volume book is designed for use with appropriate IFR or VFR charts. The Chart Supplement Alaska contains data including, but not limited to, airports, NAVAIDs, communications data, weather data sources, special notices, non-regulatory operational procedures, and airport diagrams. The publication also includes uniquely geographical operational requirements such as area notices and emergency procedures.