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This question's goal is to find the best charting solution out there right now and also what the best charting solution would be in an ideal world.
JEPP, NOAA or AirCharts? paper charts or digital? Tradeoffs? Ideal solutions?
So far, the UPS MX20 plus a laptop seems like the ideal solution. I learned (at Oshkosh) that their updates give you all the charts needed to run JeppView with - so one $420 per year update subscription covers their CNX80, MX20 and the paper (laptop) backup needed.
I'm flirting with writing a solution of my own, but haven't gotten all the legwork done. It seems like digital NOAA/NACO charts + navigation information + AFD should be cheap-to-free. A good opensource project to display them on a tablet computer (of which, very functional cast-offs are appearing at low-cost) seems like the ideal low-cost solution.
By the way, here's a small list of links that I've found that seem interesting... (stolen from my bookmarks.html, pardon the formatting)
Charts
Dead Trees
- Air Chart Systems
- National Aeronautical Charting Office - NACO
- Jeppesen - browse
subscription services
- Echo Flight
- EchoFlight - Plate - About EchoPlate
- National Aeronautical Charting Office - NACO
- Maptech MapServer - Online Topo Maps, Nautical Charts, Aero Charts, and Nav Photos
- Maptech: Topo Maps Charts Navigation Software GPS and FREE Online Mapserver
- NIMA: Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
- NIMA: Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
- DF Subscription
-- Rudy Moore, August 6, 2003
Garmin enhanced its GMX-200 MFD to include SafeTaxi (airport diagrams) and FliteCharts (terminal procedures) from NACO. You can buy one-time updates which are much more affordable than the $1,000/year you would fork over to Jeppesen. It doesn't appear these options are available to MX-20 owners.Does anyone know if you can get SafeTaxi and FliteCharts for the MX-20?
-- Don Shade, November 5, 2007