WAC Quality

[bilby54]

Has anyone noticed the poor quality of WAC's (charts) these days?

 

I was giving a nav briefing the other day and the new map has just about zilch hypsometric tints, entire towns deleted, railway lines missing but just about every creek is displayed in blue

 

- looks like it has aeronautical varicos veins!!:big_grin:

 

My older WAC's just about tell the whole story of the trip before the aircraft is started. I mean it,s not as if they are getting any cheaper either.

 

Maybe there is a push to have everyone plan on google earth or rely entirely on map based GPS:scratching head:

 

 

[facthunter]

That's a pity. Somebody should be responsible for that. You are still paying your money. Nev

 

 

[Guest davidh10]

I find them to be about as accurate as a 4WD map, which are often updated every twenty years.

 

There's roads on the map that don't exist any more and there's plenty or roads in existence that aren't on the map. Perhaps they aren't highways, but show up visually as significant landmarks. I've got to say that not all the creeks and rivers are there either.

 

One thing that puzzles me is that there are some landmarks on VNCs that don't appear on VTCs.

 

 

[eastmeg2]

It's suprising how useful landmarks on a WAC chart can be. Flying from Bushpilot's place near Bathurst to Narromine for Natfly 2009 my Garmin 296 refused to lock onto satellites so I had to fly 110Nm x-country on WAC chart, compass & clock. There was an abondoned railway line marked on the WAC about 20Nm south of Dubbo which I found, followed for a while and followed a fresh compass heading to Narromine. If such landmarks no longer get published on new WAC's, what is there to replace them that are uniquely identifiable.

 

Not much else I could do about having to orbit a few times upon arrival over Narromine to find a slot in the busy circuit and then still go around 3 or 4 times because I couldn't get a slot to turn from base onto final.

 

At least at Temora there are more runways to choose from . . . Back to topic.

 

Cheers,

 

Glen