Where to buy aviation charts

If a pilot is routinely buying six or more sectionals, the equation changes to buying an annual subscription offered by one of the companies that print sectionals in spiral-bound volumes and provide an update service to allow the pilot to keep abreast of changes. Part 91 pilots are not required to have current, or any, charts on board.

However, they are required by Part A current chart or annual chart service that provides updates is, in our opinion, an easy way to comply. Because of the scale and lack of surface detail of WACs, their most common use seems to be in Part operations where current charts are required, and VFR charts have to be on board when there is some portion of a flight that is not on an IFR clearance.

For space and cost considerations, operators subscribe to the appropriate WAC charts. The workaday chart is the sectional. For paper chart pilots, the question is the most economical method of maintaining a current collection that covers the right area. Unfortunately, our experience with trying to order a chart through the user-unfriendly website was so frustrating that we eventually gave up.

Aircraft Spruce www. No Folding While we believe that a part of pilot training should include unfolding and folding charts, there is hope for the folding impaired. Each sectional is broken into panels, which can be printed, full-size, on a standard sheet of paper. You keep a current sectional on your computer and print out the portions you wish, including potential diversions, for each trip. Sky Sectionals also breaks the continental U.

For the pilot who either lives near the corner or edge of a sectional or does a fair number of cross-countries a year, a subscription to the relevant sectionals can get pricey, and the number of folded maps can become unwieldy. A better solution may be a subscription to one of the companies that provides sectionals in a spiral-bound format.

You refer to the updates for the most current information—they tuck into a pocket in the back. The book includes all of the legends and associated information for the sectionals in the area such as MOAs, restricted airspace and ATC frequencies.

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