(January 2012) Back in September my column Going Direct entitled “The Chart Is Dead,” I referred to work that Jeppesen is doing to unhinge the chart from our old ideas of what paper is and what it represents. In the brave new world of data-driven depictions, the “chart” is not an object but instead a collection of data presented in its most useful form in order to fulfill the pilot’s need at that moment.
Mobile FliteDeck, an iPad app from Jeppesen available from Apple, gives pilots the best of both old and new paradigms, with its traditional paper terminal charts in digital form along with PDF-formatted flight manuals.
