Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dhsysusbsjsi 1316 days ago
This is big - Jeppesen products are central to a lot of airline and flight ops.
1 comments

Somewhere some old, crotchety CFI that still uses paper charts and demands their students do too is laughing "I TOLD YOU SO!"
"My E6B Flight Computor can't get hacked!"
That would be me. I use the electronics but I have some selected paper charts just in case. Saved my bacon once.
Are you updating these regularly or do you just accept out-of-date copies as backups? I kept local backup VFR charts on paper until they increased the update frequency, now it’s just way too much paper to justify.
I update them when they actually change. The version and last-updated date are printed on the bottom left corner. (Not the date on the side; that's the volume date, not the chart date.) For example one procedure I use frequently has "Orig-D 20DEC21" printed in the bottom left corner. If your electronic version stamp matches the one on the paper copy, nothing about the procedure has changed, even if a new volume has been published.