NACO charts

On 11/30/2005 6:04 PM, Robert M. Gary wrote the following:
How is that different from AOPA? The only thing I didn't like about
AOPA was that they download you each chart as a pdf. However, I found
software to mege them into one pdf and therefor put two charts on a
paper and print them all at once.

-Robert

Actually there is now (possibly temporarily) some very good,
free, software to get and manage plates:

http://www.cmensys.com/trippack/

The author posted a link here a few weeks ago but has been
doing quite a bit of upgrading and debugging since. I am
now using it instead of SmartPlates, which I also have.
Trip Pack is smaller and faster than SmartPlates and it does
a clearer job rendering the plates for my printer.

You can print two-up plates directly from the app.
Supplement it with FinePrint (www.fineprint.com) and you can
print your own booklet containing whatever plates you want.
Add the $20 Jepp (aka "Classic") punch from
franklincovey.com and you are in the plates publishing business.

In rec.aviation.owning Mitty wrote:

: On 11/30/2005 6:04 PM, Robert M. Gary wrote the following:
: How is that different from AOPA? The only thing I didn't like about
: AOPA was that they download you each chart as a pdf. However, I found
: software to mege them into one pdf and therefor put two charts on a
: paper and print them all at once.
:
: -Robert

: Actually there is now (possibly temporarily) some very good,
: free, software to get and manage plates:

: http://www.cmensys.com/trippack/

It doesn't look free... there's a demo available... perhaps that's what you
mean.

It also looks like it's Winders-only. Doesn't help me.

Since we, as taxpayers, have already paid to produce this information,
I think there should be a means of providing it en-masse. With bittorrents all the
rage these days, bandwidth to mirror that data isn't that big of a deal. If anyone
knows of place to download the whole mess, I'd be glad to hear about it.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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