New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?
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I was able to get a couple 4.34 bound manuals and looking to by the 4.35 manuals.
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AFAIK the 4.34 manual published in March 2019 by Red Dog and others, is the current version. I bought mine from Lulu.
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@bayonet
Considering this is the 1st entry in “List of effective changes” in the Dash-1:Change 3: (4.35)
(V3.00) published Dec 4th, 2020.
• 4.35 Dash1 update with many changes all around.I’d say that’s not the case. IIRC I did see a post recently (just getting back into BMS) that there were no Lulu etc links and (again IIRC) there were none planned. Can’t remember exactly where it was posted, but in these forums somewhere
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I asked around at a local copy shop what they’d be charging for 350 color pages spiral bound, so nothing fancy and they came up with a figure over a hundred euros which I found a bit too steep for my tastes
All the best, Uwe
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@robf4 said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@bayonet
Considering this is the 1st entry in “List of effective changes” in the Dash-1:Change 3: (4.35)
(V3.00) published Dec 4th, 2020.
• 4.35 Dash1 update with many changes all around.I’d say that’s not the case. IIRC I did see a post recently (just getting back into BMS) that there were no Lulu etc links and (again IIRC) there were none planned. Can’t remember exactly where it was posted, but in these forums somewhere
BMS (@Red-Dog ) did put “rev bars” in to show what pages have changed since the last release. So if you had 4.34 manual, you would replace the pages with these bars to make it a 4.35 one. Rev bars also give you a heads-up when you are reading that something has changed since the last time you researched this. Most real life aviation manuals are not hard bound but are held together with together with things like paper fastening brads or binder rings so you can replace these pages with each update.
However, like most other industries, aviation is moving away from paper manuals for the same reasons I don’t print them anymore. Electronic copies are quick searchable, often hotlinked now, have no pages to get torn out, updates don’t require you to change all those pages, and are even more portable than the paper manual when on a tablet. The only main downside is that you have to keep your device charged.
Honestly, as a former professional aviation tech writer and still current flight instructor, I’ve always been impressed by how @Red-Dog did it. All of the BMS docs, from Dash 1/34 to the nav docs, are all very realistic. My only end user complaint is that sometimes having so many different docs (which is still realistic to aviation with legacy systems) I miss something that would help what I’m researching in that is in another doc. But that is realistic and can be fixed easily with a .PDF merge. I have seen here that BMS’s plan is to do docs different post 4.35 since @Red-dog is moving on to other projects. I hope we don’t lose the realism and attention to detail, but having it all in an EFB style document would be nice!
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@snake122 said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@robf4 said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@bayonet
Considering this is the 1st entry in “List of effective changes” in the Dash-1:Change 3: (4.35)
(V3.00) published Dec 4th, 2020.
• 4.35 Dash1 update with many changes all around.I’d say that’s not the case. IIRC I did see a post recently (just getting back into BMS) that there were no Lulu etc links and (again IIRC) there were none planned. Can’t remember exactly where it was posted, but in these forums somewhere
BMS (@Red-Dog ) did put “rev bars” in to show what pages have changed since the last release. So if you had 4.34 manual, you would replace the pages with these bars to make it a 4.35 one. Rev bars also give you a heads-up when you are reading that something has changed since the last time you researched this. Most real life aviation manuals are not hard bound but are held together with together with things like paper fastening brads or binder rings so you can replace these pages with each update.
I have the 4.34 printed manual, are these “Revised pages” available to download/print? I would replace pages in the manual with updated pages color laser printed on a good photo stock and insert them… Google search didn’t come up with anything.
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@icer said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@snake122 said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@robf4 said in New BMS bound color Mauuals. where can they be purchased?:
@bayonet
Considering this is the 1st entry in “List of effective changes” in the Dash-1:Change 3: (4.35)
(V3.00) published Dec 4th, 2020.
• 4.35 Dash1 update with many changes all around.I’d say that’s not the case. IIRC I did see a post recently (just getting back into BMS) that there were no Lulu etc links and (again IIRC) there were none planned. Can’t remember exactly where it was posted, but in these forums somewhere
BMS (@Red-Dog ) did put “rev bars” in to show what pages have changed since the last release. So if you had 4.34 manual, you would replace the pages with these bars to make it a 4.35 one. Rev bars also give you a heads-up when you are reading that something has changed since the last time you researched this. Most real life aviation manuals are not hard bound but are held together with together with things like paper fastening brads or binder rings so you can replace these pages with each update.
I have the 4.34 printed manual, are these “Revised pages” available to download/print? I would replace pages in the manual with updated pages color laser printed on a good photo stock and insert them… Google search didn’t come up with anything.
Not that I can tell. Unfortunately, Red Dog didn’t make a List of Effective Pages, just Changes. That would be a big help. But I understand that, it’s one of the most annoying and time consuming things to keep up to date.
You will have to go through and print the pages that have rev bars. I don’t know think he marked flow (stuff that didn’t change but moved pages due to new added/deleted info). That would also need to be checked then on the pages around the rev bars.
So now that I’ve had my coffee and we’re thinking about it, it may be a bit of a larger project than first thought. But to be fair, paper revision updates are always a huge pain.
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