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by geoffeg 1320 days ago
Somewhere some old, crotchety CFI that still uses paper charts and demands their students do too is laughing "I TOLD YOU SO!"
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"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Are you updating these regularly or do you just accept out-of-date copies as backups?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.