Standard Instrument Procedures...published in text form?

That site gives you the fixes and navaids (and a bunch of other stuff), but
not the actual procedures. As others have posted, these are published via
the 8260 forms and appear to only be online during a review period. One can
apparently subscribe to receive the various forms every two weeks but I
imagine that's quite expensive.

Thanks for all the answers.

mark

"Craig Davidson" wrote in message
nk.net...

Mark Astley wrote in message ...
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


I believe you can download (ftp) the text files from the following web
site:

http://www1.faa.gov/ats/ata/ata100/120/stdatafiles.html