Jeppesen Charts

flyingmaniac

flyingmaniac

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What is the lifeline of Jeppesen enroute and approach charts? Are they good until there is another revision on an approach that comes out? This seems to always confuse me. I know the FAA approach charts are good for a certain time frame, ie. 05AUG2006-30SEP2006. So if the appraches are good for a while, then unless you have an subscription to Jeppesen, how does one know that their chart is current?

Anyones help would be greatful!
 
I can't remember if the regular subscription has it, but at least with mine there is a "Log of Effective Pages' that you can crosscheck your chart currency with.

Some Jepps plates i have are years old, but still current, and others seem to change every 15-20 minutes like Montreal and Miami....wuzz...up...widdat?
 
others seem to change every 15-20 minutes like Montreal and Miami....wuzz...up...widdat?
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I hated doing the bi-weekly Montreal updates at eagle; even though we were exclusively florida/caribbean, we did all the ATR maintainance in Montreal. Coming back from YUL was a delightful flight (six hours nonstop).
 
wheelsup said:
what jeppesen approach plate do you have handy? I can show you how to tell if it is current or not.
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OOOOH, I wanna hear this one, the only trick I know is the changes note at the bottom of the page, but that is if you are comparing two charts.
 
Dugie8 said:
OOOOH, I wanna hear this one, the only trick I know is the changes note at the bottom of the page, but that is if you are comparing two charts.
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comparing is the only way

it's not by the notes though, it's by amendment ##, look to the left just a bit. The "amend #" appears on both the NACA and Jepp plates in relatively the same place on the charts.

I would use Airnav's approach chart database to check amend ##'s. It took a few minutes but saved a bunch of $$ when I was a CFI.
 
I use the LEP like Doug said. Nothing worse than tearing out the 10-5E when it was 10-5G that was being replaced.....
 
I guess I'll just go on the AOPA website and print out the approaches that I need and compare those to the Jeppesen ones to see if anything has changed.
 
flyingmaniac said:
I guess I'll just go on the AOPA website and print out the approaches that I need and compare those to the Jeppesen ones to see if anything has changed.
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just look for the amendment #, that's the only thing you need to check for. If they are the same you are good to go. Airnav.com has them as well.

In addition, unless you like wasting paper, just view them and check amendment #'s. Save the environemnt a bit, eh?
 
Me luv's smoking tree's, I mean tree's.
Yeah, I recycle ALL of my paper, you know all the junk mail a house-owner receives.
 
wheelsup said:
I would use Airnav's approach chart database to check amend ##'s. It took a few minutes but saved a bunch of $$ when I was a CFI.
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The "cheap bastard" update service is on the NACO site itself. You can look at a state (or NACO volume area) at every cycle and filter for charts that have been added, deleted or changed.

If you don't fly a lot of IFR or are flying in a limited geographic area, it can be pretty useful.

Couple of notes, though. Sometimes the NACO change is to the chart format, not the information in it, in which case it will still have the old Amendment number. The the NACO online charts are updated on a 28-day cycle rather than 56, to account for interim changes.
 
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