They both do the job. I'm a private flyer so I don't have the choice imposed on me by a company. I trained with the FAA's charts, came to prefer Jepp, and am now back to the FAA. The return to the FAA for me was in part due to FAA format changes but in larger part because of my move to the iPad and ForeFlight for my charts and the FAA charts are simply more available in that environment, not only less costly.

I think that's the bottom line. The world is changing and pilots, from private through 135 through 121 are heading toward EFBs.

Don't get too tied to those pretty brown leather binders. You won't be using them, sooner rather than later.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/bu.../05pilots.html