karrank
29th Nov 2004, 20:16
In one of his last official acts, former FAA Administrator (a name) initiated a program to “improve the display of information on the navigational charts used by pilots flying under visual flight rules.” Citing an “increased reliance by VFR pilots on the radio navigation system and the advisory service provided by ATC facilities,” FAA will make changes in Sectionals to more adequately depict TCAs, radio navigation aids and radio frequencies, VFR routes and corridors around TCAs… at the expense of some topographical detail previously depicted.
The changes are a result of a special study conducted throughout most of (a year) in which over 1000 pilots were interviewed and various general aviation organizations, including EAA, were asked for input. 34 recommendations came out of the study, most of which will be incorporated in the new charts. Samples are expected to be produced by the end of this year and made available to a “segment of the pilot population for review and comment,” according to a FAA press release.
From Sport Aviation, the magazine of the US Experimental Aircraft Association. Dated 6MAR81. The year quoted was 1980, the feather duster was Langhorne Bond.
So, around the time Oz was putting green lines on VFR and IFR charts the FAA was planning to do the same thing. EAA didn’t seem to have any editorialising on the subject; did somebody else beat down the change, or was it implemented and removed at a later date? Or did Dick GET IT WRONG?
The changes are a result of a special study conducted throughout most of (a year) in which over 1000 pilots were interviewed and various general aviation organizations, including EAA, were asked for input. 34 recommendations came out of the study, most of which will be incorporated in the new charts. Samples are expected to be produced by the end of this year and made available to a “segment of the pilot population for review and comment,” according to a FAA press release.
From Sport Aviation, the magazine of the US Experimental Aircraft Association. Dated 6MAR81. The year quoted was 1980, the feather duster was Langhorne Bond.
So, around the time Oz was putting green lines on VFR and IFR charts the FAA was planning to do the same thing. EAA didn’t seem to have any editorialising on the subject; did somebody else beat down the change, or was it implemented and removed at a later date? Or did Dick GET IT WRONG?