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Old 4th Nov 2015, 22:18
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FlyingStone:

Would you care to elaborate on this? Surely JeppFD (en-route) is million times better than the dreaded paper charts?
e-charts are certainly more in keeping with membership in the Magenta Line Club. Alas, critical MEA changes drop off at certain ranges. That makes them non-compliant and can be a safety hazard. Cumulative DME distances (the "D") are not in the e-chart. Airspace is not shown. There are more, but those are what I recall off the top of my head.

Ironically, Jeppesen does make very large PDFs of e-charts, which are identical to their paper charts. But, the files are huge and available only to airline customers and some commercial customers. They are intended for use by dispatchers and such. They are too unwieldy for inflight use.

Robust database charts are the solution. But, that solution seems to be elusive.
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