how to get NACO online charts conveniently?

Tom Sixkiller wrote:

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Dave S wrote:

I have noticed that the approach diagrams tend to be published for
towered fields, and not for untowered fields.

That is one of the reasons that I still use the Jepp product, it has a
full size layout for every airport with an approach to it.

Now that NACO charts are in vector graphics you can crop the little
airport
diagram for airports that don't have a full-page airport diagram, and
print that
cropped diagram out full page, and at full resolution.

Unfortunately, those mini-diagrams don't have taxiway data or building
layouts.

You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps, although they don't
have buildings.

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They are NACO charts.

Sandy Mustard

Andrew Gideon wrote:
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You can subscribe to the NACO electronic charts on DVD from Sporty's.
Still a pretty good deal, then you have them all on your PC.



Hmm. What format, and are these both en route and approach?

[Of course, printing en route charts...]

I get a little apprehensive when I think about flying with a limited set of
charts (ie. only those for my destination, alternate, and starting point).
What if I need to put down IFR somewhere unexpected?

I also become appehensive when I consider relying upon an electronic DB of
charts. Power problems, MSFT Blue Screen of Death (or the equiv. for some
other OS), accidentally dropping the thing...

Others are obviously solving these concerns to their satisfaction. How?

- Andrew

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Tom Sixkiller wrote:



Unfortunately, those mini-diagrams don't have taxiway data or building
layouts.

You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps, although they
don't
have buildings.

Some of the larger ones perhaps, but one place I go (EFC) it only shows the
runway and general shape of the ramp...and that's actually sorta inaccurate.
What I like with a full AD is being able to find a taxi way when the ground
controller tells me where to go...literally.

Clyde Campbell wrote:

Anybody figured out how to do a batch download of an entire state yet?

Aeroplanner has a search function by state or by radius from an airport.

Tom Sixkiller wrote:

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Tom Sixkiller wrote:



Unfortunately, those mini-diagrams don't have taxiway data or building
layouts.

You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps, although they
don't
have buildings.

Some of the larger ones perhaps, but one place I go (EFC) it only shows the
runway and general shape of the ramp...and that's actually sorta inaccurate.
What I like with a full AD is being able to find a taxi way when the ground
controller tells me where to go...literally.

Jeppesen shows exactly the same airport layout for EFC as does NACO. There
isn't any taxiway.

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You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps,
although they don't have buildings.

Not the ones I've seen, admittedly not that many. KGLS,
Galveston, TX, shows almost no detail, no taxiways, no ramp, no
nothing, and there is a lot here. Jepp shows it all. The NACO
chart also shows runway 8/26, which has been closed for over 20
years, and can no longer even be seen.

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Regards,

Stan

Dave S wrote:

I have noticed that the approach diagrams tend to be published for
towered fields, and not for untowered fields.

That is one of the reasons that I still use the Jepp product, it has a
full size layout for every airport with an approach to it.

Not many non-tower fields have runway and taxi way layouts that are all
that complicated. I'm sure there's one somewhere in the US, but I
haven't come across it yet.


Matt

Stan Gosnell wrote:

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You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps,
although they don't have buildings.

Not the ones I've seen, admittedly not that many. KGLS,
Galveston, TX, shows almost no detail, no taxiways, no ramp, no
nothing, and there is a lot here. Jepp shows it all. The NACO
chart also shows runway 8/26, which has been closed for over 20
years, and can no longer even be seen.


Perhaps it is a transition sort of thing, but the ones I've compared are
quite similar to the Jepps, except no buildings.

Stan Gosnell wrote:

wrote in :

You need to look closer. They have taxiways and ramps,
although they don't have buildings.

Not the ones I've seen, admittedly not that many. KGLS,
Galveston, TX, shows almost no detail, no taxiways, no ramp, no
nothing, and there is a lot here. Jepp shows it all. The NACO
chart also shows runway 8/26, which has been closed for over 20
years, and can no longer even be seen.


After I posted my reply I pulled up the NACO PDF for GLS ILS 13? and see
all kinds of taxiways, etc.

Matt Whiting wrote:
Not many non-tower fields have runway and taxi way layouts that are all
that complicated. I'm sure there's one somewhere in the US, but I
haven't come across it yet.

The most complicated non-towered field I know if is HTO
(http://www.myairplane.com/databases/...5016VDRG10.PDF).
Three runways, and the main runway parallel taxiway doesn't go the whole
length. At night, it's easy to get confused as to where you're going.
DAMHIKT :-)

Non-towered airports with more than one runway make me uncomfortable.
Make it three runways, with two of them doubling as taxiways, and it
becomes downright scary.