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Old 6th Aug 2008, 15:15
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Since the charts are tailored to specific airlines, why not tailor the names at the top of the charts as well? If you put the names in English, then they are all there in a standard ICAO language, if you put them in their own language, that's going away from standard by utilising many different languages. Rome is called Rome in standard ICAO English. Non English speakers have to learn English for the notes, by your argument we should put them all in the local language. Its a step backwards. Its like calling East Midlands, "Nottingham", no one can find it, which is why it changed its name back to East Midlands. (no doubt it was different before and caused confusion when it was changed originally).

Altitude - The altitude information is significantly better.
No it is not, at least as far as I am concerned. Looking at the chart quickly, I cannot see it reliably enough. A line above or below indicates it very well, text beforehand can lead to misreading and takes longer to assimilate. Setting the block altitude in black being retained is a good idea. If you have "inbetween" altitudes you could add a similar system to the new charts, but to take away the hard line is a step in the wrong direction.

Minimum Safe Altitude – MSA can be recognized because it is always green. It is retained for those airlines which prefer this format
Green is hard to see against black in the lighting of cockpits in the dark. Also, it should tell us that in the presentation. Why can't we retain the lines on the altitudes if we prefer that presentation?

User Feedback – If Navtech had asked 10,000 pilots for their opinions on what to put on the charts they would have got 20,000 answers. Call it democracy.
So we are just ignored instead? Who are the charts for, the maker or the user?
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