Poll:Jepp or Nos Charts?

LIDO is different, but it's just like getting used to using Jepp after NOS. I like them better, personally. Kind of like a cross between Jepp and NOS, less clutter like NOS, but better display of info like Jepp.
 
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 (and girls..sorry) think its worth it for people in training?
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I choose NOS/NACO because thats what I use as a student. But one day when I'm that bad ass airline pilot I will use JEPP because well thats what the airlines do.
 
I like an organized cockpit and I think the Jepp charts are much better laid out and easier to keep the cockpit organized. I teach both to my students, and really once you learn one or the other the transition in my opinion is easy. I read the entire jepp chart legend and key when I first got my stuff last week. I switched because of the features of the jepp and the fact that I keep hearing the airlines use them instead of NOS.

I prefer the Jepp, but either way a current approach plate, jepp or NOS will get the job done.
 
everyone keeps hating on jepps for price, but you cannot just compare "$4 for naco vs $100 for jepp" because its just not the same.

Take texas for example (because i live here). I live in austin, which just happens to be right near the intersection of naco coverage. If i just go to austin/san antonio area, or out west, i can get by with 1 naco book. If i want to go even 50 miles east, i need to get a second book. If i want to go up toward dallas, i need a 3rd book. 3 books, and thats just approaches. For enroute coverage i need 3 low charts to get coverage for the entire state.

3 books + 3 charts @ 4$ each == $24. If i get new charts every 56 days like i should, a years worth of coverage is $144. Now if i go over to jepps and look at the airway manual express package its $171. Airway manual express service is not the same as the more expensive airway manual service. Express service gives you an entire new set of charts every 56 days and a single revision 28 days after the new set.

"$144 for naco vs $171 for jepp" is a more realistic comparison, since you are getting pretty much the same thing from either vendor at those prices.

Whether jepp makes sense for you is going to depend on what kind of flying you do and where you do it at.

And to the OP, if you are just going to take a trip to cali and just need 1 time charts, look at the jeppesen airway manual express trip kits. The whole state of cali (approaches and enroute coverage) is $33. Those $100+ prices on the jepp site are all 1 year revision service. The trip kits are just buying whatever is current and not getting any updates.
 
I used Jepp for my instrument rating, once I started to instruct I went to NACO because I wanted to stay current at a cheaper price. No matter how you look at it, NACO is way cheaper in most circumstances.

Now that it's on the company dime I use the Jepps. I got used to the airport diagram on the NACO, and since they changed their briefing strip a few years back they were much more user friendly. As long as someone else is paying, I really don't care what I'm using.
 
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