Introducing Sporty’s Chart Viewer™! The new, electronic way to access approach charts. Now you can have EVERY current FAA approach chart on one DVD versus an entire set of paper charts at 17lbs.
Sporty’s Pilot Shop will be offering FAA Terminal Procedures Publications digitally on one DVD. Contains all Instrument Approach Procedures for the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii & Pacific, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Includes approaches, take-off minimums, arrival & departure procedures, and airport diagrams.
This single DVD can be used directly from the disc or loaded to your PC hard drive. Print out individual approaches for specific trips or load the entire country or individual states to your Tablet PC or Laptop for electronic access in the aircraft. Charts can be accessed quickly by searching for state, city or type of approach procedure.
Works on Windows PCs. Requires DVD drive and 3 GB hard drive space. Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on your computer to view charts. Acrobat Reader is available free for download at www.adobe/support/download
DVD is updated every 28 days. Order each cycle or subscribe and receive updates automatically.
One Year Guarantee
Our one-year guarantee has not changed since we introduced our first product in 1962. If for any reason you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, let us know—we will make it right. If you would like a refund or exchange, please return the product on a timely basis in the same condition in which it was received.
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Sporty's guarantees competitive pricing on everything we sell. If you find a competitor offering an identical item at a lower advertised price, just mail or fax us the ad, and Sporty's will match that price.
Same Day Shipping
We're proud to offer the fastest service of anyone in the mail order business. If you phone, fax or order over the Internet today before 4:00 P.M. Eastern, weekdays it will be on its way this afternoon. Mail orders ship the same day we receive them. In an effort to ensure your package will be there when you want it, we have created an easy-to-understand delivery map for you. Please use the delivery map to estimate the number of business days to ship to your home or business by standard surface delivery. As a precaution, you may want to allow an extra day for delivery to assure that your package arrives on time. Running short of time? Ask about our One/Two Day Express Shipping Service. Some of our larger products are shipped pre-paid motor freight from Sporty's and require longer delivery times. Please allow one to two weeks for those products. Engraved and Embroidered items will ship in two days in most instances.
Return Policy
For over 40 years, in addition to same day shipping, Sporty's has offered same day returns and same day exchanges. Each day, we process all returns and exchanges before new orders go out. We know of no other company who does this!
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July 22, 2009 Would You Recommend This Product:
Yes.
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WOW!
I can see it on the passenger seat, it's huge!
It's abut time and leave it to Hal!
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Sorry, I just got the first one for a trip, so I have no idea of the durability of the disc, it just ought to be the same as any other disc, but once loaded in memory it has to be the same as the rest of the laptop and that is great if not dropped. I did some IFR on the trip, but flew into clear air after about an hour and a half, so didn't get to use the plates in anger.
General Comments
If I may comment on another product it might help. I took advantage of your introductory offer last year for an "AV8OR hand held. I did not get the WX part since weather in Nevada is always clear, or maybe once in a while so bad the hangar door will never be opened, not much in between. I used it on the recent trip, Reno to Cincinnati. It is a great little unit, I do like almost all of it very well, but don't try to program a new route or make changes in the air in turbulence, it borders on impossible with that touch screen, even with a stylus or pencil eraser. Luckily my very old Apollo Precidus still mostly works, needs some work on the power plug, have to wiggle it at times. I may go to E-Bay and look for one not as well used as mine, those buttons are so positive in their function. As there are no new data bases, I even resort to user waypoints so I can keep using it. I use these units in an old totally "Steam Gauge" Mooney, no autopilot or even wing leveler, no panel GPS. Mostly my IFR is the California coast Marine Layer. This trip did show I can still do more than that all by hand.
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July 14, 2009 Would You Recommend This Product:
Yes.
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Easy to carry database of US approach plates
Cons
Interface functional but could be improved.
Fit to page function does not work properly on my tablet PC.
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Gets the job done but would prefer Mac, Kindle or iPhone platform
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June 3, 2009 Would You Recommend This Product:
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I like having them on my laptop. Handy for a just in case and research.
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Slow to load the whole US. I wish they had a .pdf output so I could use them with an e-reader or ipod touch or internet tablet. Other than that, great product.
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April 22, 2009 Would You Recommend This Product:
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Easy way to have all the plates.
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Takes hours to load all approaches onto hard drive.
On some plates, the PDF did not cover the entire plate. I was not able to see what admendment the plate was.
No way to switch the view to landscape mode.
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March 17, 2009 Would You Recommend This Product:
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Reasonably priced electronic subscription to all U.S. Instrument Approach Procedure charts. Reliable delivery service.
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Somewhat difficult to use in my tablet computer that I use as an EFB. Takes quite a bit of time to download an individual state's charts. In my particular situation, I have to have an external dvd reader since my tablet does not have an internal dvd player. So, I must download the charts I plan to utilize on a particular trip ahead of time so that they will be ready to access from the hard drive. If your computer has an internal drive, you may run the system directly from the disc. Options to size and manipulate the view of the charts are very limited.
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Overall, I think this is a good value and I intend to continue my subscription.
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October 6, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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compact, all SIDS, STARS, APs for the USA. Low cost for individual or subscription service.
Program ran well in "run from DVD" mode. However, I wished to load it into HDD or memory stick, see below.
Cons
many attempts to load to my tablet PC (Motion Computing M1400 XP Pro with 1.5GB RAM and 40 GB HDD) did not work. Likewise, unable to install onto desktop PC unless I let the program chose all default settings.
Able to load and install from DVD using the "install on my PC" button but unable to get ChartViewer to "point" to the loaded pdf files. Files were present, as I could load them directly into Acrobat reader.
ditto no luck in attempts to load the program to a USB 16 GB "thumb" drive on that PC. Load appeared successful, no error messages, but progarm could not bring up any plates.
The program may be too "user friendly" as there is no advanced menu wherein one can indicate which directory contains the state files.
General Comments
hope the product is upgraded to a bit more bullet-proof as many of us wish to install plates (and charts) onto solid-state HDD or other solid state drives and use tablets or sub-notebooks.
If there are more advanced instructions available, I'd welcome them.
I would recommend this product to others, but with caveat that it is not reliable except when used from DVD.
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September 10, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
No.
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August 31, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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All of the FAA IFR charts pre-downloaded with a clickable map.
Cons
It costs a small, nominal fee.
General Comments
This is great because it saves from having to download all of these. If you fly IFR and like to pre-print your plates just for your route, or if you want to study up, then these are great.
Also, it's the standard FAA plates, so you don't have to pay Jep licensing fees as part of the cost.
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August 13, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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August 11, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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does in indeed have all the terminal charts, and at a low price
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slow.
I had imagined an interface where I put in my route and a radius and it finds all the charts and prints them. Having to know each icao identifier and go through the process of printing each one out is just too cumbersome.
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August 5, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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Complete US in one place
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When printing out an approach plate the screen that says "Print" is behind two other screens that have to be minimized in order to get the printer to print. This screen should pop out on top the the existing page after the print key is pushed.
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June 5, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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The most convenient way to have all charts available. Easy and quick to access. I have usually received the disk in the mail two days after placing the order.
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May 27, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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Excellent. Just what I needed.
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April 18, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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On a PC the chart viewer seems to work all right.
Cons
Not available for Mac computers.
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The fact that the chart viewer is programmed for only PC computers and not Mac OS X is a big disappointment. It's about time that Sporty's realized that there are many Mac computers out there and programmed for them.
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February 7, 2008 Would You Recommend This Product:
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The program is easy to use and reliable. Charts can be quickly found. The charts are clear and easy to read. Saves money.
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When the charts are first loaded, they are so magnified that you can only see part of the chart at a time. The "Fit Window" button doesn't work so you need to zoom out about 3 times to view the entire chart.
General Comments
I always have hard copies of the approach plates that I'm going to need at my destination airport, but to be prepared for any change of plans en route and the need to divert to a different airport, it's great to have every approach plate for every airport that you will fly by and not have to have a suitcase to carry them all on a long cross country. You can also be more spontaneous in your flight plans and not worry that your charts won't come in time in the mail.
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December 2, 2007 Would You Recommend This Product:
Yes.
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Reviewed On:
November 4, 2007 Would You Recommend This Product:
Yes.
