These manuals contains the fundamentals required in order to fly legally in the country of origin.
They also contain items of interest to pilots concerning health and medical facts, factors affecting flight safety, a pilot/controller glossary of terms used in the ATC System, and information on safety, accident, and hazard reporting.
Although the AIMs are not regulatory in nature, parts of them re-state and amplify federal regulations.
In the United States, the AIM is published by the Federal Aviation Administration, and contains eleven chapters,[1] as follows: The AIM's text and images are produced by the FAA, and are available in electronic form.
[2] Several commercial enterprises sell typeset books containing the AIM, usually in combination with those chapters of the Federal regulations that are particularly important to pilots.