Howie Keefe's Topo Atlas/WAC charts & frequencies

I've been using Keefe's Atlas for three years now and wouldn't go back to WACs
if you gave them to me. I don't know what frequencies you are referring to;
all the places I go have the frequencies well defined on the charts.


"Mark"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-I was looking at purchasing a Topo Atlas from airchart.com It says its
-based on WAC charts and they don't have alot of airport frequencies
-listed. When traveling with these atlases, how do you find frequencies
-if you have to deviate around weather or something else? Do you also
-have to carry around facility directories for the country?



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-Please email replies if possible as well.
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-Thanks
-
-Mark


Jim


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

In article , "Jim Weir"
wrote:

I've been using Keefe's Atlas for three years now and wouldn't go back
to WACs if you gave them to me. I don't know what frequencies you are
referring to; all the places I go have the frequencies well defined on
the charts.

I checked some smaller airports and they didn't have freq. listed. One
would be ljf (litchfield) about 50 mi W of Minneapolis class B

That's because Litchfield doesn't HAVE any frequencies, not even a Unicom. No
little "U" at the end of the airport info block on the chart. The AOPA airport
directory says that 122.9 is monitored, but this is strictly unofficial.

However, one of the big deficiences (IMHO) of the WAC charts is that they simply
say "U" without specifying WHICH unicom frequency it is. This was fine back in
the good old days when 122.8 was *it*, but is lacking in the current airspace.

However, the advantage of having the entire USA in one relatively small book
far outweighs the disadvantage of not knowing the unicom frequency from the
chart. For that and a dozen other reasons (phone numbers, fuel, etc.) I carry
the AOPA Airport Directory right next to the Topo Atlas. That and I do check
the airport I'm flying to on Airnav to get the up to date info.

Jim


"Mark"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-In article , "Jim Weir"
wrote:
-
- I've been using Keefe's Atlas for three years now and wouldn't go back
- to WACs if you gave them to me. I don't know what frequencies you are
- referring to; all the places I go have the frequencies well defined on
- the charts.
-
-I checked some smaller airports and they didn't have freq. listed. One
-would be ljf (litchfield) about 50 mi W of Minneapolis class B

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

In article , "Jim Weir"
wrote:

That's because Litchfield doesn't HAVE any frequencies, not even a
Unicom. No little "U" at the end of the airport info block on the
chart. The AOPA airport directory says that 122.9 is monitored, but
this is strictly unofficial.

well, it does have a CTAF.. but I suppose that's not an official freq..

However, the advantage of having the entire USA in one relatively small
book far outweighs the disadvantage of not knowing the unicom frequency
from the chart. For that and a dozen other reasons (phone numbers,
fuel, etc.) I carry the AOPA Airport Directory right next to the Topo
Atlas. That and I do check the airport I'm flying to on Airnav to get
the up to date info.

oh yeah.. I had forgotten about that.. the paper AOPA directory
Thanks for that tip. The updates for the atlas, are they a pdf or
something you print out? I wish they had a sample update you could look
at.

The minor updates are just information lines that you can pencil-write on the
charts. Major updates are color printed page parts that you scotch-tape over
the old information.

Jim


"Mark"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-oh yeah.. I had forgotten about that.. the paper AOPA directory
-Thanks for that tip. The updates for the atlas, are they a pdf or
-something you print out? I wish they had a sample update you could look
-at.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com