The delivery method for Jeppesen NavData products has changed a lot in five decades. [Courtesy: Jeppesen/Boeing]
Key Takeaways:
Jeppesen NavData is celebrating its 50th anniversary, with an estimated 90% of aircraft currently relying on its navigation data services.
The company originated from Captain Elrey Jeppesen's hand-drawn charts in the 1930s, transitioning to commercial digital NavData for flight management systems in 1973.
Jeppesen NavData maintains a consistent 28-day update cycle, processed by over 1,000 experts from raw data provided by 246 global sources, with delivery methods evolving from magnetic tapes to real-time wireless updates.
Jeppesen NavData, the company that has been showing and telling pilots where to go for decades, is celebrating its 50th anniversary of operation.
According to the company, an estimated 90 percent of the aircraft in service at this time rely on JeppNavData from the Digital Aviation Solutions group of Boeing Global Services to get them where they need to be.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
