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Old 08-15-2010 | 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by NuGuy
Ever since Boeing bought Jepp, it's been "our way or the highway", and it's seen as a very lucrative enterprise. Jepp charges not by the physical cost of the medium (paper vs digital), but rather on "how many sets of eyes" view the product. In their view, a paper plate costs exactly the same as a digital plate.

We could always go to NOS/FAA charts.. That'd show'em....

Nu
CPZ 175s have EFBs, and were initially set up for NOS charts. The charts and EFBs were so bad that they didn't make it out of the trial run, and have been turned off for the last year or so. I would rather do the Jepp revisions than deal with those glitch-y, crash-prone pieces of junk.