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Old 3rd August 2005 | 21:32
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justsomepilot
 
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As you appear to have good contacts at Jeppesen perhaps you are able to ask them why their European raster charts (I bought the CD) are actually SCANS (yes, scans, not the original electronic data). Poor quality scans too.

It's amazing that somebody at Jeppesen (who obviously have the data in electronic form and could easily generate proper TIFFs or similar) just picked up a load of their printed charts and fed them into a scanner.

The chart set is also padded out with well out of date TPC charts (even poorer quality scans than those of the VFR/GPS charts, with lots of JPEG compression artefacts) for the further reaches of Europe! Complete with well out of date danger areas, etc. Those charts themselves have missing dates, presumably so one cannot tell just how far out of date they are (I know some "current" ONC charts are c. 1998).

At these prices, Jepp should sell only current material, or they should take the trouble to transcribe the changes (which they also have in electronic form, from e.g. their IFR charts) onto the TPC charts before they feed them into the scanner.

A rather poor product!

Perhaps they scanned the stuff in deliberately to prevent people ripping off the data commercially.
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