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Flight Guides UK Maps do not give sufficient airfield details to make a safe landing. In particular they do not give details of the runway type or direction, so we have become used to referring to a flight guide such as Pooleys or to the UKAIP (Click Here). French and Dutch maps do give details of the runway surface and direction in sufficient detail (Click Here) so a flight guide is not so essential. Pooley's UK Flight Guide Pooley's has plates for some cross channel airfields including Calais, Le-Touquet, Ostend, Dinard and Granville. A Typical plate for Calais is given below for illustration (Do not use for flight planning)
Delage Guide The Delage Guide is also published by Pooleys, and contains all the usual information, but in French. The UK version is also in French but with an English supplement.
The plates are however pretty well self explanatory. An example for Calais is given given below (do not use for flight planning).
Surviving without a Flight Guide With due caution, and using the local half mil maps it is quite possible to fly in Europe without a flight guide. The Maps give sufficient information to judge runway alignment, length and surface. This is not given on UK half mil maps! Below is given the airfield decode from the French IGN maps and an example depiction on a map in this case for Le-Have.
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