jepp or NOS

[svcta]

The company I work for uses NOS and Jepps internationally. There is a subsription service for NOS, if forget the guy's name, but it's called Soensoe's AirChart Systems. It's a big binder with all the low or high enroute charts that are way easier to use enroute than loose charts. Especially when you're alone. And the entire U.S. IAP fits in a standard flight bag, and they send you the updates which you pencil in any changes every 28 & 56 days. No pages to change. Once a year they send you new charts for everything. The whole country IAP and enroute charts costs a little under $400 for the year. That's a fraction of the Jepps.

 

[421Driver]

Our operation uses NOS charts. We use the Nav Canada charts when flying in the Great White North. The NOS/NOAA charts are much improved over the past few years, and $0.39 giant binder clips make them easy to use. I still like Jepps better though, I only could afford them when I was training.

 

[400A]

Nos

We use NOS Stateside and Jepp international. Does not matter though, to those of us who like NOS, we all got our little yellow sheet with this last revision that says in the fall of 05 they are stopping civilian sales.

If we thought Jepps were expensive before, wait till there is no other choice.
Bend over everyone, HERE IT COMES!

400A

 

[paulsalem]

Time to buy stock in Jepps?

Does this mean that sectionals and the likes are going way too? And AFDs?

Hell why don't they stop publishing NOTAMs too.

 

[weekendwarrior]

We use NOS Stateside and Jepp international. Does not matter though, to those of us who like NOS, we all got our little yellow sheet with this last revision that says in the fall of 05 they are stopping civilian sales.

If we thought Jepps were expensive before, wait till there is no other choice.
Bend over everyone, HERE IT COMES!

400A

Anyone know of a website that might contain this info? Personally I prefer NOS just because of the military. Plus, they are free to download. I sure hope NOS plates don't go away!

 

[paulsalem]

http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/catalog

Under the blue pic of their international catalog there is more info and links.

 

[weekendwarrior]

This is rediculous! Ok, I understand some of it, they are probably being lobbied by Jeppesen, and they don't want to infringe on competition, but if you read the announcements closely it claims
"...reduce the vulnerability of critical navigation data on the internet..."

Geeze, if these terrorists don't have the internet, then how on earth could they find out critical navigation data? I guess they can't order jepp charts on the internet, either.

Personally I prefer NOS charts, but of course could fly with either one. What I like about the NOS charts is, I just download and print one for where I am going plus any alternates. All for free.

 

[paulsalem]

I may have misread that. Looks like only DoD approches will be leaving us.

 

[weekendwarrior]

Yeah, I kind of got that too, but it also sounds as if they are getting out of the approach plate biz all together as well. They mentioned the competition factor. Funny thing is, there is no competition for DOD plates, because we all use the DOD FLIP, which is produced by NACO (read NOS). So, what commercial competition are they referring to? Strange.

 

[Tinstaafl]

I thought the US, like all ICAO members, is obligated to publish aeronautical data? This includes instrument approaches. Unless they delegate Jepp. as their nominated source of information how will the US meet its obligations?