On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:09:33 +0100
Mxsmanic wrote:

John T writes:

I don't know of any official sources for chart downloads. Even if there
were, printing them would be a beast of a task - especially for any
significant XC.

You could read them on a laptop, which would have the added advantage
of illumination at night.

However, I think all the sectionals are prepared by hand, and they
depend on physical techniques such as overprinting, so you probably
won't see PDFs any time soon. Still, it would be nice to be able to
download scans, or anything. And I don't see why they wouldn't be
free, since they are government produced and carry no copyright.

His subscription ran out so they are now out of date, but Kyler hosts
FAA supplied TIFF sectionals at
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/ .

Being an electronic format, you can convert them to whatever you want.
Imagemagick worked very well for me to convert them to compressed JPG
or PNG files and store the whole USA on a 1GB memory card to view on a
handheld. It was lot more compact than carrying and unfolding a bunch
of paper charts.

Doug

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