legal to use home-printed IFR plates?

Jim Carter wrote:
Tim,
I don't think Scott was disagreeing with you -- the question is
what are "appropriate charts", as you wrote. Has anyone any reference to
a regulation or bulletin that directs the approach or departure plates
have to be printed by a specific and approved organization?

There is no such regulation, per se. For 121 ops the FSDO will approve
only charts that meet the aeronautical requirements of the FAA. Those
are policy proclamations, not regulations. That means a carrier could
use charts produced by a foreign chart maker, not just NOS or Jeppesen.
In fact, NOS is limited because they cover only the U.S.

As to printing, there is no such requirement but, as a practical matter,
your only source was the printed product. Not so with NOS and Jeppesen
electronic charts. In fact, Je Blue, a Part 121 carrier, is approved to
use Jeppesen electronic approach and departure charts.

No friendly who understands today's system would have any issue with me
using home-printed Jepps or NOS charts for light aircraft,
non-commercial IFR ops, provided they are current. Jeppesen helps me (I
use JeppView) by printing out the currency of the chart at the top of my
home-printed chart.