I am sure this has been asked 100 milion timeswhat is the best site for downloading enroute charts

THE place for chart links is the VATSIM Chart Center. You'll find it in the Pilot Resource Centre at www.vatsim.net/prcRuthVP CommunicationsVATSIM

hithanks butwhat is the best source for enroute charts online, ( free) to use with vatsim, its easy to find plates dp and star's but enroute le seems more difficult.. thoughts???

I could be wrong here, but, I believe that all enroute IFR chart's, both High Alititude WAC's and Low Altitude Enroute and Sectional's cost real dollars. A few year's ago, someone was making available to the flight sim community, at a reduced rate, some of the out of date chart's for use with FS2002 and a program that I believe was called FSMax. Still it was about $50 USD for most of the chart's.Still the best and cheapest place to lay your hands on real paper charts is the local FBO. Hang out there, buy the manager a cup of coffee or maybe an adult beverage of his choice and he may be able to put you on to some out of date chart's. FAA regulations state that you can't fly unless you have the latest, update version's of the enroute and sectional and terminal chart's. He get's to turn all his unsold, new (out of date) chart's back for credit, so don't bother asking, however, pilot's are alway's leaving old copies around when they update. He may even put a box out for the pilot's to place old, donated, charts for sim use. Worth a shot and you may get the real flight bug and take a lesson or two :)Steve Park

>hi>thanks but>>what is the best source for enroute charts online, ( free) to>use with vatsim, its easy to find plates dp and star's but>enroute le seems more difficult.. thoughts???It's the searching that's difficult. There isn't any single source. Go to the link I gave and click on the country you want. For example, the Eurocontrol site has en-route charts - but it took me a while to find them. For some reason, websites for aviation charts never seem particularly easily navigable!Ruth