Sectional charts are the most commonly used charts by pilots today and provide a wide range of valuable information. [Credit: CanvaPro] Sectional charts are the primary visual flight rules (VFR) ...

Sectional charts are FAA-published visual navigation aids for VFR pilots, providing crucial information on terrain, airports, various airspaces, and radio frequencies. They serve as vital safety tools ...

Aviation Supplies & Academics has released the 16th Edition of the Aeronautical Chart User’s Guide, the company recently announced. This release is an up-to-date learning aid and reference tool for ...

Air Chart Systems, a vendor of aviation charts for over 50 years, is discontinuing its signature spiral-bound paper atlases and hard copy updates. The company attributes this decision to "adverse ...

The Air Force's Air Mobility Command (AMC) plans to take delivery of tablet computers capable of displaying digital flight charts in April, Gen. Raymond Johns, AMC commander, said in an internal ...

Jeppesen was founded by Elrey Borge Jeppesen, who, as an airmail pilot in the 1930s, began compiling essential flight data in his "little black book" to address the critical lack of accurate ...

A lot of today’s pilots don’t consider maps to be all that important—but they are. Keeping a fresh chart in the airplane is still an important safety item, whether it is in electronic form stored in ...

ForeFlight digital navigation charts and information are now available for Canada. The complete set of NAV CANADA charts, optimized for iPad display, includes Visual Navigation Charts (VNC), Visual ...

American Airlines has started a pilot program to test the use of Apple's iPad running a specialized app providing paperless flight navigation charts, a tool it says will save it over a million dollars ...