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Old 26th Sep 2012, 08:15
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piperarcher
 
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For IMC-rated pilots who are only able to use approaches in the UK, worth bearing in mind that all the CAA plates, including IFR ones, are now available at the touch of a button from within the latest version of SkyDemon. Perhaps not as nice as Jeppesen ones, but completely free and perfectly usable for my infrequent let-downs to 600'
I think SkyDemon just accesses the freely available plates on the NATS AIS website? You can (hopefully still), buy individual Jepp IFR plates from Transair. They were something like 40p a page, and a place like Cambridge for example might have 7 pages covering their airport. I found this a lot cheaper than the full package, which online is about £400.

I used to download the free plates from the AIS website, however recently I was given an NDB approach to follow, and I was struggling to read the tiny writing when you print it onto A5. Now I print off the gCap ones which have only the pertinent details and is much easier to read in flight.
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