Originally Posted by
Jan Olieslagers
1:250000 is a rare format. It always was, and paper charts getting out of fashion doesn't help.
On the contrary, 'quarter mils' are widely used by the UK military and are also published by the CAA. I've always used them since I started my PPL course in spite of the 'standard' spiel from instructors that 'they carry too much information and it confuses the students'.
Where do they get this from? Is it part of the AFI instructional syllabus that they have to say this?
Anyway they're widely used among the microlight fraternity in the UK.