On Jun 12, 2:37 am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Jun 11, 11:34 am, 5Z wrote:





On May 28, 12:49 pm, Frank Whiteley wrote:

I'm sure they're not legal. I just wondered if anyone had taken the
99 cents deal on their local chart;^)

GlidePlan seems like a great product.

Why do you think they are not legal? The GlidePlan charts are exact
images of *current* sectionals, and are released as soon as they are
available from the FAA.

I create a map booklet containing all the pages I expect to be flying
over so that I have what constitutes current information for
navigating and communicating.

-Tom

I didn't say glideplan charts weren't legal, they are. The
'chartgeek.com' products use digitally manipulated the charts. In
their FAQ they seem to sidestep the question of legality, neither
offering or suggesting the topic.

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I'm ChartGEEK's Richard Neal and would be glad to answer these
questions.

Yes the charts are completely legal to use, pre-flight, print to take
along etc. They are the latest FAA/NACO releases with the chart's
effective date is clearly shown on the legend as part of the image.
Our legal communications with the FAA/NACO informed us that to remain
within their correct use guidelines we absolutely must not change any
data contained within the charts. We don't. We only project them to
the geo-tagged coordinates that the FAA/NACO provided along with the
charts so that they will work in Google Earth. There is a digital
(non-image) tagging that makes the charts uniquely identified as ones
we have processed, but the data & images are exactly as received from
the FAA/NACO and that is what is mentioned in our FAQ.

Anyway, we are seeing several flight schools buying the complete USA
chart set since they are only $87.12 (yep, 99 cents each) and also
getting their students complete sets at the student rate of $29 which
figures out to about 3 cents a chart! Try getting a current chart
from anywhere else at that price! Anyway, since the charts are
purchased in digital format from the FAA/NACO for $1.50 each and are
sold at a loss of 99 cents each we hope you will see that we are
committed to providing absolutely the best possible view of pilot's
flights. (of course, if you have access to a military 'live'
satellite feed, those images are indeed better)

If anyone reading this post would like a free chart, just buy one of
our 99 cent charts and mention this post and we'll give you another
chart for free. Our goal is simple. Pilots simply should not take-
off without having all the best available knowledge possible and that
by "pre-seeing" their next flight it may save their life. (There's an
average of 1 death / day in General Aviation!)

I'll get down off my soapbox now. If anyone has questions, please
post or send me a note at

Thanks! Richard
www.ChartGEEK.com