Glass vs. Charts

Mark Hansen wrote:
On 05/08/07 15:13, Mark Hansen wrote:
On 05/08/07 15:07, Jose wrote:
I get charts, plates, etc... as they expire and only pay a few bucks extra for shipping.
mypilotstore.com has them at a discount, with free shipping. It's what
I do.

Jose
It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

I meant to include that even the shipping on the A/FD is free.


Mark,

I found the ordering and subscription site, but wonder if I could ask a
few questions.

Do you use the NACO subscription service?
Do they notify you when a subscription is due to expire or if a shipment
is the last of a subscription?
How's the service?

I use Avshop, but the NACO service you've pointed out is a far better
deal! Thanks for the tips!

On 05/09/07 04:33, B A R R Y wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
On 05/08/07 15:13, Mark Hansen wrote:
On 05/08/07 15:07, Jose wrote:
I get charts, plates, etc... as they expire and only pay a few bucks extra for shipping.
mypilotstore.com has them at a discount, with free shipping. It's what
I do.

Jose
It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

I meant to include that even the shipping on the A/FD is free.


Mark,

I found the ordering and subscription site, but wonder if I could ask a
few questions.

Do you use the NACO subscription service?

Yes.

Do they notify you when a subscription is due to expire or if a shipment
is the last of a subscription?

Well, you pay for the subscription in advance, which is roughly one year
of updates. I'm in my first subscription period now, so I can't say for
sure what they will do when it is up, but the information on their site
says they will notify well in advance such that you'll have time to
re-order and not miss any updates.

How's the service?

So far, it's been great. I get the products on time - what else is there? :-)


I use Avshop, but the NACO service you've pointed out is a far better
deal! Thanks for the tips!

I used AVShop as well - for a couple years. However, they increased their
shipping charge on the A/FD to something like 3 to 4 dollars (IIRC) which
seemed outrageous to me.

I asked them about it a couple times and got nowhere, so I switched. Not
only is the NACO subscription cheaper, but the shipping is free (even on
the A/FD!). I don't mind that I have to pay in advance for the subscription,
so it works out really well for me.

Note that there are a couple other services out there that were pointed
out to me when I was looking. The first was skygeek.com. They have
sectionals for $5.99, but then charge $2.00 shipping. I don't remember
what they charged for the A/FD.

The other was mypilotstore.com. They were charging $7.25 for sectionals,
and I'm not sure about a shipping charge.

Best Regards,


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

Got a URL for them?

Jose
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In rec.aviation.piloting Mark Hansen wrote:
On 05/09/07 04:33, B A R R Y wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:

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Do they notify you when a subscription is due to expire or if a shipment
is the last of a subscription?

Well, you pay for the subscription in advance, which is roughly one year
of updates. I'm in my first subscription period now, so I can't say for
sure what they will do when it is up, but the information on their site
says they will notify well in advance such that you'll have time to
re-order and not miss any updates.

They send you a letter to the same address they send the material.

--
Jim Pennino

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On 05/09/07 08:07, Jose wrote:
It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

Got a URL for them?

Jose

http://naco.faa.gov/ecomp/


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

mypilotstore.com has them at a discount, with free shipping. It's what
I do.
It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

Sectionals:
NACO: $8.60 Free shipping, I think.
mypilotsto $7.25 Free shipping

Anybody find a better deal?

Jose
--
Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe,
except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

On 05/09/07 08:33, Jose wrote:
mypilotstore.com has them at a discount, with free shipping. It's what
I do.
It's even cheaper to get them direct from NACO, but you do have to
pay for the annual subscription in advance.

Sectionals:
NACO: $8.60 Free shipping, I think.
mypilotsto $7.25 Free shipping

Anybody find a better deal?

Jose

NACO also has the A/FD at $3.10 with free shipping.


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

On May 8, 3:07 pm, Jose wrote:
I get charts, plates, etc... as they expire and only pay a few bucks extra for shipping.

mypilotstore.com has them at a discount, with free shipping. It's what
I do.

Still, I'm not going to keep 6 or 7 sectionals up to date each time I
fly cross country. I usually have updates for my departure point and
destination but for enroute I use whatever I have that is most recent
(at least for VFR). It just doesn't make sense to have to buy so many
charts per flight.

-Robert