Standard Instrument Procedures...published in text form?

After reading a few posts and searching around some more I found the forms:

8260-3
8260-4
8260-5

Now I guess I'll just call the regional Flight Standards office and see if I
can get a few. I'm surprised they're not archived online somewhere. Oh
well.

thanks for the help,
mark

"Allan9" wrote in message
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IIRC FAA Form 8020-5 is what FAA ends up sending out for publication.
I'll
see if I can find an old one
Al

"Mark Astley" wrote in message
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All,

I was once told that instrument procedures (i.e. approaches) are
published
in text form, and then rendered into NOS charts (and a similar process
for
Jeppesen).

1) Is this true?
2) If so, is this "raw" data available to the public somewhere? I'm
looking
for something similar to the ATA-100 databases which can be purchased
from
the FAA.
3) How did NOS wind up producing the charts anyway?

Thanks in advance,
mark