Pilots who want an alternative source of electronic chart data for flying outside the U.S. can now buy ChartData from Seattle Avionics Software for European Union countries. The EU ChartData is available for hardware manufacturers that want to make the data available for their customers. Honeywell’s Bendix/King AV8OR Ace handheld GPS is one of the first to offer the EU ChartData. Seattle Avionics is working with Apple iPad software developers that plan to release the EU ChartData on those devices. On the AV8OR Ace, the EU ChartData costs $799 per year, roughly a quarter of the cost of a Jeppesen subscription for the same area, according to Seattle Avionics president John Rutter.
Many Seattle Avionics customers access the company’s digital data via its Voyager flight-planning software, and others by buying it for devices such as the AV8OR, Aspen Avionics panel-mount display, iPad or Seattle Avionics’s own SkyPad EFB. The EU ChartData is not yet offered on Seattle Avionics’s Voyager flight-planning software but should be available by year-end. Seattle Avionics doesn’t supply VFR charts for the EU subscriptions, but they are coming soon, too, according to Rutter.
The EU ChartData includes georeferenced IFR approach plates, SIDs/Stars, airport diagrams and HI/LO IFR en route charts.
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