Avioportolano
The Avioportolano is an aviation manual that contains information on over 550 airports in Italy . The manual is primarily aimed at general aviation , especially pilots of light and ultralight aircraft . The focus is therefore on information on Aviosuperfici and Campi di Volo (ultralight airfields). It appears in Italian and (since 2015) in English.
The term Avioportolano is made up of the Latin words avis (birds) and portus (harbor) and refers to the medieval portolan cards from which the sea manuals emerged . Avioportolano was registered with Guido Medici's Italian Patent and Trademark Office in 1995. Avioportolano Srl is now the name of Guido Medici's publishing house in Mira near Venice, which produces and distributes the manual.
After the legal reorganization of air sports in Italy in 1985, the number of airfields there increased considerably. The magazine Il Volo , headed by Guido Medici, then published monthly short articles on Italian airfields from 1987 onwards. Medici summarized these articles in 1991 in the manual Guida al volo da diporto . Under the direction of Medici and with the support of the Center for Geotopographical Information Services of the Italian Air Force in Pratica di Mare , the corresponding cartography was created. In this area, Il Volo cooperated with the Touring Club Italiano from 1994 and with the Istituto Geografico De Agostini from 1995 . On this basis, the Avioportolano appeared for the first time in 1995 . Until 2015 it was published in an updated edition every two years under the auspices of the Italian government and the Aero Club d'Italia , annually since 2017. The Avioportolano Italia 2008/2009 for the first time included an additional volume with tourist and gastronomic information. The aeronautical charts are updated annually and for some years now have also covered Corsica , Malta and some Southeast European countries. Since 2012, the publisher's products have also been offered on digital media .
In the summer of 2010, Guido Medici completed 130 flight hours over Germany and took around 20,000 aerial photographs. By the end of the year, he had created a directory of German airfields, around 60 percent of which came from the German Aviation Handbook (AIP). At the aviation fair Aero Friedrichshafen 2011 Medici presented the air travel guide Aerotouring for private pilots - traveling by plane for Germany with the associated cartography. A corresponding travel guide for Italy (Aerotouring Flight Guide Italy) was then published by Avioportolano Verlag .