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Old 1st May 2006 | 09:24
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
You can get up to date VFR charts, from Jeppesen

It's called the Raster Charts product and will load into Flitestar, and also the now-discontinued Flitemap (which is same as Flitestar but can accept GPS input)

It's about £200 for all of Europe, containing their entire "VFR/GPS" 1:500k charts. I don't know how much the updates are but you can get them every 28 days, I think.

For areas not covered by the above charts, e.g. Greece, they add in the U.S. military ONC charts, which are rather poor and haven't been updated for years, but are better than nothing.

The cost is a lot less than buying all the paper charts for the same area.

You can then print off en route sections as required.

It is very bad of the CAA to hang on to its VFR charts as they do, letting them out to Memory Map but still only once a year. They do a dis-service to safety, just to make a bit of money. The charts should be made available for free or for a nominal fee, in a georeferenced format suitable for Memory Map and Oziexplorer. Then people could have a moving map GPS which runs the actual CAA VFR chart. No excuse then for getting lost
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