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Charts
This appendix contains charts supplied by the
Jeppesen Sanderson Company (“Jeppesen”), the
world leader in aviation charts, for use in
Microsoft
®
Flight Simulator 2000. Charts are
included for some of the most interesting areas
you can visit in Flight Simulator and for airports
you will visit in the Lessons and Adventures.
If you’re unfamiliar with using charts for naviga-
tion, go through the Tutorials on basic navigation
found in Chapter 7, “Learning to Fly with Rod
Machado.” You’ll find additional instructions for
using the charts in the Preflight Briefings for each
Lesson and Adventure.
Most of the charts provided in this appendix are
instrument approach charts, which guide pilots as
they approach an airport for landing. Others are
Standard Terminal Arrival (STAR) and Standard
Instrument Departure (SID) charts that simplify
navigating to and from an airport area. Pilots also
use VFR sectional charts and IFR en route charts
for cross-country navigation.
To see the kind of information provided in
sectional and en route charts, use the Map View
feature in Flight Simulator. For more information
about Map View, choose Simulator Help from
the Help menu.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
At the age of 14, Elrey Borge Jeppesen
took a ride with a barnstormer and decided
that flying was definitely for him. At 20,
“Jepp” earned his pilot's license, which was
signed by Orville Wright.
Jepp flew challenging air-mail routes in
the Western United States during the 1930s.
Dangerous flying conditions were com-
pounded by the fact that pilots had no
aeronautical charts to use; they used road
maps, if anything at all. Bad weather often
kept a pilot on the ground, or forced an
early landing. And, sadly, many pilots were
lost in these dangerous conditions.
Jepp began keeping notes in a 10-cent
notebook, drawing his own maps, and
noting which routes were better in inclem-
ent weather. He also included drawings that
profiled terrain and airport layouts, and
noted phone numbers of local farmers who
could provide weather reports. Soon, his
notes and maps were in great demand by
other pilots.
When radio emerged as the newest
technology for navigation, Jepp developed
ways to use the technology for improving
point-to-point navigation. He also began
designing instrument approach procedures,
which he documented on his instrument
approach charts—the only source in the
country for that type of material.
Jepp went on to fly for United Airlines,
where he met his wife, Nadine, one of the
first flight attendants. When their chart
business took off, Jepp left United to form
the Jeppesen Company.