Published For 33 Years, It's Up To 400 Pages

Written primarily for pilots, the 400-page spiral bound Bahamas & Caribbean Pilot's Guide is the only single-source reference for island travel, according to current publishers John & Betty Obradovich, who have just produced their 15th edition of the guide. The islands of the Bahamas are just a few minutes off the coast of Florida, and with extensive accommodations and recreational information, this book is full of resources to help you plan where to go, where to stay and what to do for both pilots and passengers.

The Pilot's Guide is conveniently organized into tabbed sections: the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Hispaniola/Cuba (Dominican Republic, Haiti), Western Caribbean (Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Yucatan, Belize, Roatan), Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands, Eastern Caribbean (Anguilla south to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao), United States (Florida airports with Customs) and Survival. Within each section there is travel information on the islands and the country, accommodation and car rental listings, pilot info, maps and airport information. Included are frequencies, runway details, hours, fuel availability, color aerial photographs of every airport in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, GPS designators as well as longs & lats ... a necessity to find some of the small airports that won't be in your GPS database. The general information section covers customs, flight plans, forms, procedures, and required equipment in great detail including nearly a thousand color photos. The Pilot's guide is organized by islands from north to south.

This addition of the Bahamas & Caribbean Pilot's Guide features an extended Puerto Rico section. With double the pages than the 2010 Pilot's Guide, this section has been completely revised and expanded.

With mutual cooperation between the FAA and the Islands of the Bahamas, the procedures for flying to the islands are straight-forward, forms are simple, and the fees are minimal. Only two airports have towers (Nassau and Freeport), but there are 21 airports of entry (AOE) from which you can begin your journey. After you enter the Bahamas through an AOE, you are free to island hop using a Cruising Permit. There are now six great out island FBOs in the Bahamas, a substantial increase from past years. First-class FBOs are also popping up in the Caribbean islands, making flying in that region more user-friendly, not only for jets, but for general aviation as well. And each year more pilots are getting involved by sending in photos and information from their personal island adventures.

Each year nearly 5,000 copies of the Bahamas & Caribbean Pilot's Guide are sold. Last year over 600 copies went to fractional share jet companies to put in each of their aircraft. The U.S. Coast Guard buys the Pilot's Guide each year for navigation in the islands. Even Customs & Immigration officers uses it as a phone book because of all the valuable phone numbers. Island pilots wouldn't fly without a copy, and general aviation pilots use it to dream, plan and to fly the islands. Also available are two color VFR WAC scale charts. One covers the entire Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos, and the other is the entire Caribbean from Puerto Rico to the islands off the coast of Venezuela.

FMI: www.flytheislands.com