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Old 28th Jan 2008, 21:17
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nzav8tor
 
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Intergrated Jeppview, you bet ya!

On arrival into Schipol today for the first time in a CJ2+ with intergrated Jeppview on MFD the usefulness of this feature was obvious.

We were given four runway changes until finally making a visual approach for 04 after breaking off the ILS 36R approach.

With the paper charts this would have resulted in a real nightmare of paper shuffling and head down time tyring to rebrief and redo the nav setup.

With two or three FMS key presses and three jeppview key presses and a quick scroll the runway changes were effortless.

We have paper charts in the daily trip kit as a backup but for ease of accesiblity, use and flexiblility, I would recommend integrated charts for any operation.

The aircraft symbol overlay on the approach and ground charts is also a great feature.

Perhaps this is standard on bigger jets but for a little jet, combined with Proline 21 you couldn't ask for much more in the way of avionics, efficiency and ultimately, safety.
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