Wondering if anyone has Sporty's Chart Viewer?http://www.sportys.com/chartviewer/Wondering if it has smaller airports, how many charts total, etc.I have also been looking at SimPlates 2004:http://www.avshop.com/catalog/product.html...&categoryid=161There is a big price difference, though SimPlates does include the World. Just cant seem to find much info about the Sporty's viewer. Thanks for any help, Randy ATaiwan

The website for Chart Viewer has all the information you need right on the first page. It's just all the Terminal Proceedure Publications put onto a DVD rather than in the many volumes of loose-leaf booklets. It'll have all the airports that have proceedures and it'll have all the charts (numbers vary from cycle to cycle). The price isn't bad at $9 a cycle for all the TPPs on DVD (TPP books cost about $4.20 a piece and there are atleast 10 volumes of them). Fortunately, as a simulator pilot, you only need one cycle since the FS world never changes. As a real world pilot, I have to have the current cycle of charts and they are updated every 56 days because things in the real world change.It looks to be exactly like the service AOPA offers to all members on their website so I don't personally see the need for me to buy any of them and I always have a current Northwest TPP for my real world flying.You could also go to a pilot shop at the end of a cycle and get their expired charts for free since they can't sell them legally anymore and are just going to toss them in the garbage anyway. They are more than current for MSFS.----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

I have Simplates 2004 bundled with the first three update packs. Update packs are free to download but are huge file sizes, so CDs may be preferred.Besides TPPs which include approach plates, SIDS and STARS (DPs now), and airport diagrams (taxi charts) it includes Airport Info including preferred routes, airport text descriptions such as found in the US Airport Facilities publication and relevant pubs from other countries, etc., appropriate to each country (It is international in scope, international being somwhat spotty but sufficient in airport coverage.).Databases are taken from FAA oubs and NIMA info.Using a couple of navigation atlases which plot navaids and GPS waypoints on topo maps I purchased, this additional info allows me enough references to fly IFR/VFR internationally where I do not have enroute charts.For the US material coverage is almost complete.

thanks very much guys for your help. Randy

For US charts, you can get just about everything online for free from the following sites:http://www.myairplane.com/http://www.airnav.com/ myairplane.com has IFR enroute charts and airport procedures and charts for just about every major and minor airport in the US. Airnav.com also has airport charts as well.