$400 a year is for the electronic subscription. The paper and electronic are
about the same.

Since you can download the same information for free, that is why I said
that I am paying $400 a year so that they tell me what has changed.

Install the updated charts, filter the airport view to show only my
favorites and only the ones with charts that have changed. Sometimes, there
are none and I'm done. Otherwise, I highlight them all (remember only the
ones with updated charts are showing) and print them in a two-up format,
back to back. Then, I can just replace the entire airport for any that have
changed.

The only manually intensive part is taking the 8.5X11 pieces of paper and
cutting and punching them. But, since there are none and usually no more
than a few airports, even that doesn't take but a few minutes. The whole
process is much less effort than filing the paper subscriptions for many
states and a ton of airports that are outside of my usual flying area.

The only thing easier is using a tablet (PDA is nice as a backup but I'm not
willing to use it as a primary) in the cockpit and not printing anything
out. I'm not comfortable enough with not having a paper backup to spend the
money. If I'm going to have a paper backup anyway, I'll just use that for
primary navigation with no backup.
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Travis
"5pguy" wrote in message
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Right now, I down load my plates off the AOPA website. Ihave
not flown IFR since I canceled my subscription. When I do my
6 approaches, I use the downloaded plates.

$400 a year. That's a lot. Don't know much about other subscriptions.
What about an electronic subscription? Print what you need, download
the udpates. Do that have this type of a subscription? You still take
with you in the plane a hardcopy.