iPad experience and choices

[peterh337]

You would get into huge trouble if you posted that on Flyer, BP

When I asked TD where he gets the data from, his reply was "stone tablets". In reality I think he gets as much as he can get from Eurocontrol's B2B service (you have to pay for that; in essence AFAIK it gives you access to the whole EAD database) and gets any extras from other sources e.g. copy/paste from national AIPs.

Nowadays all flight planning software vendors who wish to cover Europe have to do more or less the same thing. Obviously one would try to develop scripts for as much as possible, to avoid manual copy/paste from PDFs, but this will need to be closely monitored manually.

[mutt]

On the other hand, whether the price for an SD subscription would remain the same as it is now, given that that subscription would give you access to the full Jeppesen database, ...?

The present Jeppesen IPAD FD costs about 3400 euro per licence

Mutt

[stickandrudderman]

jeppesen VFR data is crap.

[peterh337]

That's true for the UK; the CAA maps are the best there is for the UK.

But for much of Europe, Jepp VFR maps are the best you can get. And you get a consistent presentation.

[Ultranomad]

Originally Posted by peterh337

for much of Europe, Jepp VFR maps are the best you can get

Maybe for places like Greece... In Czech Republic and Germany, I personally found errors in Jeppview: missing major landmarks, a reference to a nonexistent FIR, wrong airspace class, etc.
If Jeppesen were to reward such findings with e.g. a free Jeppview subscription, I might become a bounty hunter

[stickandrudderman]

Not to mention no VORs, and Heathrow appears to be in class G airspace!