cuin

Does anybody know where I could find cheap N.A.C.O. aeronautical charts and IFR charts,on-line? I dont live near an airport.

SunDog

http://www.naco.faa.gov/

SkyVector.com - Aeronautical Charts - Flight Planning

cuin

FYI, just in case you get some charts I found a website
www.wactac.com
And thats for the reply Sun Dog

SunDog

I may have misunderstood. did you want online charts or did you want to buy paper charts online?

ufgatorpilot

I think you can also print the NACO charts on Airnav.com

dimondan

Don't forget to read "NOT FOR NAVIGATION. Please procure official charts for flight." just above where the charts are on airnav. You should be ok doing practice approaches in VFR but they are NOT charts to use in actual legally speaking.

NoyGonnaDoIt

That's mostly a bit of CYA from AirNav since they are linking to the official chart on the NACO servers. But your point is well taken - there's not reason no to go to the source.

If you want to bulk download charts from NACO, try this site: NACOmatic - Bulk Download FAA NACO Approach Plates, Airport Diagrams & the Airport Facility Directory It runs a set of scripts that retrieve the current charts from NACO on a per-state or per-region basis and repackage them. If you're a bit geeky, you can also download some of the scripts and tailor what you get a bit.

SunDog was probably thinking of this as well as the free charts but just in case, you can also get enroute charts (as well as sectionals) at NACO for a very small price through
NACO Product Catalog - Digital Products

Catch is that they come in a very large PFD file. I don't recall whether the free version of Adobe Acrobat allows "tiling" under "Page Scaling" in the printer dialog but that's what you'd need to use to get usable prinouts.