Most aerodromes provide some form of communal briefing facilities for pilots which includes aeronautical and meteorological information, although it is common for airline flight crew to be required to use briefing material supplied by their Companies which has been prepared specifcally for their planned flights.

What is provided by aerodromes for general use varies according to the type of aerodrome and national regulations. The provisions of ICAO Annex 15, Chapter 8, and Annex 3, Chapter 3, form the basis of most national regulations.

Briefing facilities should be easy to access, and information should be laid out in a form which makes them easy to understand, even by relatively inexperienced pilots. For example: