Alternative to Jeppesen binders?

Are there any alternatives to the Jeppesen binders? Even their plastic ones are
kinda pricey. Thanks...


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:


http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm



"Ditch" wrote in message
...
Are there any alternatives to the Jeppesen binders? Even their plastic
ones are
kinda pricey. Thanks...

In a previous article, "MichaelR" said:
Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:
http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm

Are the TPPs themselve in PDF format, or what? It says you need a Windows
PC, but if the that's only for the wizzy chart viewer program and the
actual data is in a non-proprietary format, I might subscribe.

The screen shot http://sportys.com/pilotshop/images/step4l.gif looks an
AWFUL lot like a web browser with an Adobe Acrobat plugin looking at a
PDF.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
FAQs are like flatulence. Any asshole can produce them.
-- Toni L

I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches.
They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and
they stay clear.
Pretty cool.





"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
In a previous article, "MichaelR" said:
Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:
http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm

Are the TPPs themselve in PDF format, or what? It says you need a Windows
PC, but if the that's only for the wizzy chart viewer program and the
actual data is in a non-proprietary format, I might subscribe.

The screen shot http://sportys.com/pilotshop/images/step4l.gif looks an
AWFUL lot like a web browser with an Adobe Acrobat plugin looking at a
PDF.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
FAQs are like flatulence. Any asshole can produce them.
-- Toni L

In article ,
MichaelR wrote:
I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches.
They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and
they stay clear.

Can you email me a couple of them to look at? I'm tempted to buy these
DVDs and something to display (or possibly print) them on.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

There's an airport diagram on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation.

The PDFs have weird names, so you can't find a specific chart or airport by
just browsing around the disc. The included program is easy, and apparently
uses an XML file to point to the right PDF.




"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
news:3WGdc.102965$gA5.1369481@attbi_s03...
In article ,
MichaelR wrote:
I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches.
They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and
they stay clear.

Can you email me a couple of them to look at? I'm tempted to buy these
DVDs and something to display (or possibly print) them on.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

In a previous article, "MichaelR" said:
I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches.
They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and
they stay clear.
Pretty cool.

Cool. I ordered the DVD. If I can, I'll write a program to do the
browsing and displaying for Linux and Mac OS X.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Can't get out of 'vi'? Common problem. Don't worry, I'm here to help. Just
log in as root and type "init 0". It works for pretty much any problem you
might have with Linux. No, no, no. Thank /you/. -- Mikey Raeder

MichaelR ) wrote:

Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:


http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm


Wow! Only $120 (US) for a year's worth of updates, versus Jeppesen's $772.

Maybe it's time to switch back.

--
Peter












----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups
---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

In a previous article, Peter R. said:
MichaelR ) wrote:
Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:
http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm
Wow! Only $120 (US) for a year's worth of updates, versus Jeppesen's $772.

That's not *much* cheaper than Howie Keefe's Air Chart Systems. They
charge $200 for the whole country, but the problem is the damn updates - I
can never keep up with them and I keep losing the little cards. I love
their IFR chart atlas, though.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and
manly. Yes! Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back. Still
not King." - the very secret diary of Aragorn son of Arathron

"MichaelR" writes:

Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95:

Anyone know if this is just FAA data that's been repackaged or if it's
a proprietary derivative? I'm willing to buy Free data and make it
freely available.

--kyler