Press release 07-2022

Aeronautical Information Manual Visual flight free of charge

The German Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) can be used free of charge from January 2023. An online version will then be available via the DFS flight advisory portal.

11. July 2022: For several years now, DFS has been making the latest version of the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) available free of charge via its aeronautical information portal at www.dfs-ais.de. As the publisher of the AIP, Büro Nachrichten für Luftfahrer will also provide a free version of the AIP-VFR supplement on the AIS portal from January 2023.

This will provide all airspace users, regardless of whether they are travelling under IFR or VFR, with easy and free access to the AIP. The two aeronautical information publications - AIP IFR and AIP VFR - will continue to be distributed in the usual form via the online shop of the DFS subsidiary R. Eisenschmidt GmbH.

Media contact:

Ute Otterbein
Phone: 06103 / 707-4162
E-Mail: presse@dfs.de

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH is a federally owned company organised under private law with around 5,600 employees (as at 31.12.2021). DFS ensures safe and punctual flight operations. In peak years, the approximately 2,200 air traffic controllers have guided more than three million flights through German airspace, up to 10,000 every day. The company operates control centres in Bremen, Karlsruhe, Langen and Munich as well as towers at the 15 international airports in Germany. The subsidiary DFS Aviation Services GmbH markets air traffic control-related products and services and is responsible for air traffic control at nine German regional airports as well as at London Gatwick and Edinburgh airports. DFS is playing a key role in the integration of drones into air traffic and has founded the joint venture Droniq GmbH with Deutsche Telekom. The subsidiary R. Eisenschmidt GmbH distributes publications and products for general aviation, Kaufbeuren ATM Training (KAT) trains military air traffic control personnel, and the joint venture FCS Flight Calibration Services offers flight calibration services. www.dfs.de