What to do with the old FAR/AIM

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I've got 2003, 2004, 2005 copies of the FAR/AIM. My muncipality will not take them as recycling. What do y'all do with your out of date aviation materials ?

My town, depending on the crew, will take old AF/D and NACO approach plates.

I keep a current copy of FAR/AIM at home & office... so it's getting crowded with old stuff.
 
I give it all to my boy. He loves the charts (as he does all maps), and thumbs through the AIM/FAR looking for pictures he can figure out.
 
Joe Williams said:
I give it all to my boy.
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Ditto, my 3 year old daughter loves getting old sectionals, paints in the 700agl class e magenta circles with pretty colors. She also likes the old book of IAP's I just gave her...
 
Interesting ideas... I'll ask my sister if her kids would like stuff like this.
 
jdwatson said:
I've got 2003, 2004, 2005 copies of the FAR/AIM. My muncipality will not take them as recycling. What do y'all do with your out of date aviation materials ?

My town, depending on the crew, will take old AF/D and NACO approach plates.

I keep a current copy of FAR/AIM at home & office... so it's getting crowded with old stuff.
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Why won't they recycle ???
 
jdwatson said:
I've got 2003, 2004, 2005 copies of the FAR/AIM. My muncipality will not take them as recycling. What do y'all do with your out of date aviation materials ?

My town, depending on the crew, will take old AF/D and NACO approach plates.

I keep a current copy of FAR/AIM at home & office... so it's getting crowded with old stuff.
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Surprised they won't take it.

Send it to the landfill. Or donate it to a local book sale.
 
Used book store.
 
Any self respecting used book stores will usually take anything in the shape of a book.
I try to find a prospective interested student and unload the pile on them.

I also tend to keep one or two things (especially sectionals) and just bury them in the backyard for the archeologists. How things change when you compare charts from just 10 yrs ago to today, and 20 yrs.... :hairraise: :eek: :eek: That's just simply proof that humans need to thin themselves out a bit.

Don't forget xmas is coming up soon. Sectionals, approach plates, AFD and pages from the AOPA airport directory make great wrapping paper. You can be cheap and classy at the same time. B)
 
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We used to have table full of old approach plates and obsolete charts at the Meigs Young Eagles rallies. Try there.
 
I have left them out with the newspapers for recycling, given them to curious wannabe pilots or armchair pilots, and left them at the library. Since they are all paper, recycling SHOULD be a good option.
At least one new one a year gives me plenty . Oh, same deal for the AOPA Airport directory.
Old sectionals are good for wallpaper, package filling, or gift wrap. Armchair pilots like them too.
Oh, and for the ladies, they make GREAT coffee table books!
 
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I used the old sectionals to wall paper a lavatory. The Approach Plates were used as note scratch paper in the home office or let the 19 month old twin grand children use them for drawing paper. They are getting good at tracing the airport diagram.

John
 
Your local high school library will usually take reference books in good condition... and you know some kid there is interested in flying.
 
Send it to the nearest torture chamber, they can force the inmates to read it!
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Send it to the nearest torture chamber, they can force the inmates to read it!
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Right, then someone will figure out the inmates, having read the book, can be used to interpret the rules.
 
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