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Re: Jeppesen vs Garmin

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You can also get right to Takeoff/Alternate minimums pages for a specific airport without bringing up the Chart Supplement and searching therein.
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my understanding is Jebb charts are better for international travel. The cost is about the same for the subscription if that option is activated for your G1000
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There are some related questions:

- Are there any differences between Garmin and NACO charts (especially IAP's) that are of interest or can they be considered interchangeable?
- For the NACO and Nav Canada, there are significant differences. Were I to get Jepp charts for FF would these differences disappear?
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Re: Jeppesen vs Garmin

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Rich wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:00 am There are some related questions:

- Are there any differences between Garmin and NACO charts (especially IAP's) that are of interest or can they be considered interchangeable?
- For the NACO and Nav Canada, there are significant differences. Were I to get Jepp charts for FF would these differences disappear?
Not sure what you mean about Garmin and NACO charts. As far as I know the only choices in charts are Jepp, FAA/NACO and charts produced by other national aviation agencies. Garmin doesn't sell/make charts or plates.

Both Garmin and Jepp do produce/sell navdata created from the FAA's Digital Terminal Procedures publications. These are the textual instructions for departure/arrival/approach procedures which are used by the flight management system and presented graphically on the MFD. And the of course Jepp and FAA/NACO also sells those procedures as static geo-referenced plates.

Both Garmin and Jepp publish notices on errors in the navdata, but it's not clear if those are errors in the FAA and other aviation agency supplied data, or errors in the generation of the navdata by Jepp or Garmin.
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Boatguy wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:49 am
Rich wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:00 am There are some related questions:

- Are there any differences between Garmin and NACO charts (especially IAP's) that are of interest or can they be considered interchangeable?
- For the NACO and Nav Canada, there are significant differences. Were I to get Jepp charts for FF would these differences disappear?
Not sure what you mean about Garmin and NACO charts. As far as I know the only choices in charts are Jepp, FAA/NACO and charts produced by other national aviation agencies. Garmin doesn't sell/make charts or plates.
That’s exactly the question I was asking. To wit: If one has Garmin Pilot are the chart base presentations simply reprints of NACO?
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Re: Jeppesen vs Garmin

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Rich wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:04 am
Boatguy wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:49 am
Rich wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:00 am There are some related questions:

- Are there any differences between Garmin and NACO charts (especially IAP's) that are of interest or can they be considered interchangeable?
- For the NACO and Nav Canada, there are significant differences. Were I to get Jepp charts for FF would these differences disappear?
Not sure what you mean about Garmin and NACO charts. As far as I know the only choices in charts are Jepp, FAA/NACO and charts produced by other national aviation agencies. Garmin doesn't sell/make charts or plates.
That’s exactly the question I was asking. To wit: If one has Garmin Pilot are the chart base presentations simply reprints of NACO?
If you haven't purchased Jepp charts (not sure if they are supported in GP), the answer is Yes.

In Foreflight you can purchase Jepp charts and then choose between NACO and Jepp.
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Re: Jeppesen vs Garmin

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Boatguy wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:28 pm Jeppesen vs Garmin
- Arrival, Departure and Approach plates
- Navdata
- Enroute charts

Any comments (ha!), especially from those actually using Jeppesen products? You can skip the comments about Jeppesen costing more, that's well established. I'm curious about the content of the products.

FWIW, I've been using Jeppesen plates for the last year and prefer them to the FAA plates. The value of the Navdata and charts is not quite as clear to me.
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BTW in Foreflight if you include Aero data and display airways on the "naked" or Sectional charts it doesn't display information that's on the IFR enroute charts. however if you select a leg of an airway it will pop up information about the leg, such as MEA, leg length, bearing(s), etc.
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