Poll:Jepp or Nos Charts?

Champcar

Champcar

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Just wanted to see what you all used. I decided to go Jepp because I have noting better to do with $139:sarcasm:. The Jepps are nice, the airlines use them...blah blah, But they are expensive. You guys (and girls..sorry) think its worth it for people in training?
 
I switch between them all the time, or will once I start flying again. The instructors I work with use Jepps, and I use whatever I can download from the web.

Oh, my God, it's going to feel so good to be back in the cockpit! I am hoping for next week sometime!
 
for training, no; i do not see to much benefit other than becoming familiar with the differences. I like Jep's personally, but wouldn't have my students get a subscription or a packet when they can get the NOS for $4
 
Champcar said:
Just wanted to see what you all used. I decided to go Jepp because I have noting better to do with $139:sarcasm:. The Jepps are nice, the airlines use them...blah blah. But they are expensive. You guys think its worth it for people in training?
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Don't let the name fool you. If I am buying, NOS. If someone else is buying, JEPPS.
 
JEP said:
Don't let the name fool you. If I am buying, NOS. If someone else is buying, JEPPS.
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That sounds about right. Im going to use the NOS for when I goto Cali, no way am I paying $139 just for that damn state.:nana2:
 
Jepps are great and laid out far better than NOS and I taught both to my students.

But unless the company is paying for them they aren't worth the expense and headache for most GA pilots.
 
JEP said:
Don't let the name fool you. If I am buying, NOS. If someone else is buying, JEPPS.
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Heck Yah! It's much more cheaper to buy the NACO for 5 bucks then the Jepp for 200 bucks. Plus, the NOS is kinda like JEPP now since they changed it a bit with the briefing section and all. Finally, as an added bonus, I can do whatever I want with the charts, cause after 56 days, their new home becomes the trash.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
Jepps are great and laid out far better than NOS and I taught both to my students.

But unless the company is paying for them they aren't worth the expense and headache for most GA pilots.
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Tell me about it, seems like I get updates every day sometimes.
 
Both.

We print out charts from Jeppview for the airports we intend to use on a trip, plus we have a full set of NACO (& also the Canadian equivalent) on board each aircraft for unexpected diversions or a change in itinerary.
 
seagull said:
These days I use "none of the above", because we've switched to LIDO (pretty much).
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Is that Luftansa's creation? We are in *talks* about going that way. Do you like them and did you find them easy to switch to? It's a apparently a step towards EFBs (which you guys have coming on line soon if not already I think).
 
The NACO charts are now almost all using the same format. Nice easy to read picture menu for the missed approach. I like the way they put a mini airport diagram on the bottom. Great for that unexpected circle in low vis. Jepp should have done that. The jepp updates are a pain in the ass. :insane:
I spend the 4 bucks. If I lose the book, who cares? I'd cry if I lost my jepp plates in the 50dollar binder:(
 
DCApilot2006 said:
The NACO charts are now almost all using the same format. Nice easy to read picture menu for the missed approach. I like the way they put a mini airport diagram on the bottom. Great for that unexpected circle in low vis. Jepp should have done that. The jepp updates are a pain in the ass. :insane:
I spend the 4 bucks. If I lose the book, who cares? I'd cry if I lost my jepp plates in the 50dollar binder:(
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That is the one thing I like about the NOS is the little diagram. By the way just get the $13 ASA 7ring binder and save yourselfs some cash money.
 
Champcar said:
You guys (and girls..sorry) think its worth it for people in training?
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Probably not. Even familiarization can wait until close to the end.

IFR training tends to be very approach intensive and, depending on your location, tends to consist of practice approaches under VFR to a small group of local airports (the IFR cross country is an obvious exception). The result is that an IFR student can go through training without buying any charts - just download and print the ones you need from NACO (or one of the free online repackagers like myairplane.com).

(BTW, on the more general question, like many of the others I like the Jepp charts better)
 
Champcar said:
That is the one thing I like about the NOS is the little diagram. By the way just get the $13 ASA 7ring binder and save yourselfs some cash money.
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Or just get the 3-ring mini one from an office discount store or Walmart and pay about $2.
 
I use Jepp because my employer pays for them.

When *I* paid for charts I used NOS (or isn't it NACO now, or maybe it was NACO and now it's NOS or.....)
 
i use the nos right now but i learned off of the jepps. i think i would teach students with nos now because they are probably not going to want to update their charts all the time. its easier to go spend a few bucks for current charts than it is to shell out the money for jepps. the result is a lot of idiots out there flying with expired charts, which you may get away with for a while but it will bite you sometime. i also think that its easier to go from nos to jepp rather than from jepp to nos so if the guy wants to switch to jepps later he can easily whereas the nos take a little more figguring out. the first time i ever used a nos chart was single pilot ifr in the clouds to well within the final approach fix. not really a great time to be figuring them out
 
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