Stan Gosnell wrote:

wrote in :

Jepp read = useful only if flying serious international.

Or if you're doing anything out of the ordinary. We use Jepp, because they
publish our approaches, which aren't public use. If you need anything non-
standard, Jepp is pretty much the only source there is. If you're just
flying spam cans from airport to airport, NACO may be fine, but Jepp does
that just as well, but if you're doing anything else, including but certainly
not limited to international, Jepp get the job done.

In the context of people who are concerned about chart costs, specials don't
normally come into play. ;-)

Since you're using specials, cost is probably way down the list. OTOH, if you're
Joe Pilot with a Cessna 182 you likely will never depart the 48 states, thus why
suffer Jeppesen's every-upward cost increases? Some folks got hit with 30%
increases in Jeppesen bills recently.

As to specials, some folks still use NACO for public and print their own specials
in-house. Not too difficult to do for specials.