BritFlight

Jim Terpstra, Senior Corporate Vice President of Flight Information Technology for Jeppesen, wrote a series of articles appearing in AOPA Pilot Magazine on the subject of reading and using Jeppesen Airway Manual Navigational Charts. 

1st in a Series   (pdf)(460kb)   Enroute Charts, Chart Layout, Revision Cycle, Enroute Text Pages.

2nd in a Series   (pdf)(311kb)   Within the Neatline, Chart Validity, Time Zones, City Location Guide, Cruising Altitudes, Zig-dex, Airspace, Restricted Areas.

3rd in a Series   (pdf)(392kb)   Navigation Aids, Reporting Points, Other Navaids.

4th in a Series   (pdf)(199kb)   Communications Tabulations.

5th in a Series   (pdf)(244kb)   Center Frequencies, Airport Information, NDB Navaids.

6th in a Series   (pdf)(244kb)   Controlled Airspace, Class B Airspace, Class C Airspace, Class E Airspace.

7th in a Series   (pdf)(251kb)  Special Privileges, Part-Time Controlled Airspace, Bases of Controlled Airspace, Special Use

Airspace (SUA), Warning Areas, Military Operations Areas, Restrictive Airspace Symbology.

8th in a Series   (pdf)(1172kb)   Airway Designations, Minimum Altitudes, Mileages/Changeover Points, Intersections.

9th in a Series   (pdf)(1091kb)  Off-Airway Navigation, Precision Plotting, VORs for Direct Route Navigation, GPS for Direct Route  Navigation, GPS as a Substitute.

10th in a Series   (pdf)(325kb)   Off-Airway Navigation, Determining Magnetic Courses, Long-Distance Flights.

11th in a Series   (pdf)(580kb)   MORAs Obstruction Criteria, Minimum Enroute Altitudes.

12th in a Series   (pdf)(690kb)   Worldwide Symbology, Airway Controlled Airspace, High and "Both" Altitude Airways, Low Frequency Airways, Airport Controlled Airspace.

13th in a Series   (pdf)(356kb)   Approach Charts vs. Approach Procedures, Approach Chart Sequence, Alphabetically by State, Alphabetically by City, Index Numbers, The Last Digit.

14th in a Series   (pdf)(269kb)   Heading Data - Briefing Strip, Minimum Sector Altitudes, Communications, Approach Control.

15th in a Series   (pdf)(290kb)   Tower, Ground Control, ARTC Center as Approach Control, UNICOM, Altimeter Settings, Legend Pages, Chart NOTAMs, Area Charts and Class B Airspace Charts, Approach Charts and Airport Diagram Philosophy.

16th in a Series   (pdf)(379kb)   Changes, Amendment Numbers, Plan View, Plan View Symbols, Thickness of Lines.

17th in a Series   (pdf)(366kb)   Terrain, Other Details on the Plan View, Procedure Turn.

18th in a Series   (pdf)(287kb)   Final Approach Segment, End of Final Approach Segment, Decision Altitude versus Decision Height, Making the Miss Early, Final Approach Descent Gradients.

19th in a Series   (pdf)(283kb)   Stepdown Fixes, Intermediate Segment, Initial Approach Segment, Feeder Route, Segments on Approach Charts.

20th in a Series   (pdf)(517kb)   Segments on Approach Charts, NoPT, Excessive Altitude, Intermediate Segment, Final Approach Segment, Missed Approach.

21st in a Series   (pdf)(507kb)   Marker Beacons, Procedure Turn, Precision FAF, Profile Distances.

22nd in a Series   (pdf)(509kb)  Shallow Final Approach Segments, Parenthetical Heights, Intermediate Segment, Visual Descent Point, Minimum, Maximum, etc.

23rd in a Series   (pdf)(601kb)   MDA Protection, Constant Angle Non-Precision Approaches, Descent Angles to Clear Stepdown Fixes, Using the MDA as a DA.

24th in a Series   (pdf)(541kb)   Minimum Altitudes, Visibilities.

25th in a Series   (pdf)(575kb)   VOR Approach Minimums, Complex Approach Minimums, Conversion Table.

26th in a Series   (pdf)(1148kb)   Sidestep Minimums, Night Minimums, Missed Approaches, Inset for Missed Approach Fixes.

27th in a Series   (pdf)(737kb)   Temperature Note, RNAV (Where is GPS?), Terminal Arrival Areas (TAA), Where is the MSA?, GLS PA, LNAV/VNAV.

28th in a Series   (pdf)(770kb)   Heading and Border Data, Communications, Special Notes, Airport Plan View, Additional Runway Information, Take-Off & Obstacle Departure Procedure, Obstacle DPs.

29th in a Series    (pdf)(1160kb)   Departure Procedure Names, Flying the DP, DP Transition.

30th in a Series    (pdf)(1138kb)   Heading and Border Data, Speed Limit, What's In a Name? Altitude Assignments, Noise Abatement.