Video: Jeppesen's New Euro Charts

Video: Jeppesen’s New Euro Charts

Editorial Staff

Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM ET

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Jeppesen has launched "Mobile Flight Deck VFR" for the European market, an innovative iPad app for pilots.
The app renders aviation charts from a database of coordinates, rather than enhanced PDFs, to provide required visual and approach charts.
The article features a video report from *AVweb*'s European editorial partner, Thomas Borchert, on this new product.

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For years, we’ve been wondering when someone would get around to producing data-driven charts — that is, a portable or a panel mount that renders charts not from an enhanced PDF but from a database of coordinates it uses to draw the basic map graphics. Now Jeppesen has stepped up and done just that, offering what it calls Mobile Flight Deck VFR for the Euro market. In Germany, for instance, pilots are required to carry visual charts — and not just sectionals but visual approach charts as well. Mobile Flight Deck boxes up everything into one app for the iPad, and fliegermagazin‘s Thomas Borchert, AVweb‘s European editorial partner, reports on the new product in this video from Aero in Friedrichshafen.