What to do with your expired charts?
 

I'm sure a few of you do this already, but I recently told my roommates to save their expired enroute charts when doing a Jepp update, and they asked why!

The enroute charts make great wrapping paper for birthdays / holidays, and it personalizes the gift.

I used to save all my sectional charts when I was flying GA and Part 91 for the same purpose...

Just thought I would throw that out there for you guys =)

Fantastic idea.

We could recycle them.

I'll have to ask my FO what she/he does with my old charts after she/he finishes my revisions.

That is funny =)

my cats love chasing around wadded up old approach plates.

of course they love playing with milk rings & plastic easter eggs...

Toilet paper.... ouch!

Ahh groovin, you stole my thunder.


But yes, the hi/low charts do make good wrapping paper. Especially for gifts for our significant others that smack us whenever us airplane nerds start talking shop. Ahhh...sweet revenge

Wrapping paper for earthly-folks, or playing material for Microsoft FlightSim!

i throw them away

Wow....very creative. Way to add to the fun

Don't you mean WorkSim?

I'm sure someone from airliners.net would buy them from you

I give them to my friends who still are instructing, that way they can practice using JEPPs for the real world.

I give them to Martha Stewart. She gots lots of ideas!

Are you serious? Or sarcastic? I've never been on the a.net forums, but that would be phenomenal if there were folks willing to pay for expired charts. Actually it would be sad...but whatever.

:rolleyes:Kindling:D

Give them to the poor.

I'm sure Mesa and Go can use them (whenever they are awake).

Since we don't get crew meals:rolleyes:, I eat mine.

Leave them in the Jepp binder and throw out the new ones. ;)

I give them to my girlfriend, so she can spank me.......

Not to kill the humor of this post, but seriously this isn't a bad idea. I've done this as well. Not that Jepps are hard to use, but if you're used to NACO charts, just looking over the Jepps before an interview or your first 121 job is a little bit helpful.

You can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl. Caw-caw!!

I flew with a captain who would take the old charts and highlight our route of flight on them. Then he'd slap a sticker with some info about the flight and have the flight attendant give them to the kids on the plane. Nice lil' PR tool...

I usually start a little fire in the cockpit. Most captains don't seem to like it very much... It's funny to see them try to remember their memory items though...

With charts. Yeah.....

That's good stuff.

Serious idea, for those with kids, you could multilayer them on a wall and let your aspiring pilots draw on them at will....although that could lead to other walls with preflight planning markings, but hey, they're kids

I was thinking of switching out the TP in the GO with them. Either that or my contract.

...LMFreakinAO!!

Nice. "We're going to the tower!!!"

Recycle, recycle recycle.

Recycle the release, the daily message, recycle scrap paper, i keep all that **** in my flight bag until the end of the trip and toss it in the recycle bin when i get home and i re-use the same water bottle for a couple of weeks (after washing it out of course).

Its not too hard to do and its a huge impact if you think about it.

....not to get too preachy....

Haven't researched the validity of this myself as of yet, but I read in a paper not too long ago (must have been the USA Today LoL) that re-using plastic water bottles (Poland Spring etc...) allows toxins from the plastic to eventually make their way into the water. Take it for what it's worth...!

I've heard the same about using Nalgene's and those types of water bottles. Some granola girl told me once that nasty stuff from the plastic leaches into the water, thence into your body. It never stopped me from using them. How the heck else are you supposed to carry around water? Glass? A gourd?

Granola girl? Glass? Gourd? Awesome man...

I'd settle for a nalgene - I find those a bit more trusty than Dasani any day of the week...But if you really wanted to be cool, you could find yourself one of those old-school cow-hide sacks :D

I use an old beer bottle. Makes me feel at home.

If anyone is feeling charitable, I really could use expired low or high enroute charts. I was asked to present at a local middle school's career day in April, and part of the presentation includes the basics of how we navigate. I'm trying to collect enough charts as hand outs so every kid can have one. If anyone has a stack of these things laying around, I'd be willing to reimburse you for a USPS Flat-Rate Priority Mail envelope ($4.60). PM me if you can help.

I use them for Christmas wrapping too.

I also wall-papered one wall in my little office (escape room) in my basement with them. Another wall has all of my old requests for applications and interviews along with the rejection letters on it.
fbh

Your room sounds kinda depressing. geeze...

old charts are good for practicing oragami.

I wet them down, and use them as sort of a baby wipe/toilet paper. Very smooooth on a shaved/waXED buttocks.

I thought I was the first one to use them as wrapping paper. I did it several years ago and everybody loved it, so now it is expected. The Jeps are see-through though so they can be less effective, -takes two wrappings at least.

I hear the ink is carcinogenic and I don't want colon cancer so options are limited...

I'm not probing my bunghole for brown gold, sugar. Neither should you.