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Old 6th Aug 2008, 15:14
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Deano777
 
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Well I used them for the first time today and they are pretty abysmal, took me 5 minutes to locate the ILS morse ident, took another 5 minutes to find the airfield elevation, the minima's at the bottom are just bloody confusing, listing (for the airfields we went to today anyway) CAT III minima's first. There's too much clutter in the vertical profiles of the approach charts. The chart is rather disjointed in places and is certainly a small step backwards for now. What's with the chart numbers now? no M3M etc etc, instead we have 30-2 or similar. How much consultation was taken with the people who actually use these things?
As a side note a quick glance at the PDF file posted above shows charts that are slightly more eligible than the two I had to read today, so certainly alot of variation dependent on the airfield being visited.

On a positive note the ground pages are more concise.

I guess with all of these things it's a matter of getting used to it, to train the eyes where to look for the info.
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