Nice, perfect!
True if you do it yearly. Thing is with Navigraph you can skip AIRAC Cycles at your leisure by cancelling the monthly subscription so it can work out cheaper if you don’t mind having slightly out of date NAVData…
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Foreflight and airnav is all we use in real life but that’s just my experience with my company. For some quick access for simming I use airnav a lot.
Congrats on testing the waters of IFR. This is where the real flying is done. I’m amazed at how much info is on youtube, you can really learn a lot before stepping foot in an instrument ground school classroom. Have fun and don’t get discouraged!
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For the real data of Belgian and Luxemburg aerodromes you can also look here:
Skeyes BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG Aeronautical Information Publication
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Yeah, the amount of free access to information from the flight community is mind boggling and awesome! I’ve been binging Youtube vids and Google articles since release. Thought I’d start from the bottom with NDB/ADF navigation, which was a pain to understand in the beginning, but I think I got the fundementals now atleast ^^
yes it does. all the terminal procedures for the usa are there.
FAA has some best written public materials for free.
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/instrument_procedures_handbook/
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IMO to the OP, Navigraph is the only choice moving forward.
Even if you find great flight planning tools (skyvector is nice and free) and free Charts from FAA and other sources, if those plans and SID STAR’s don’t match your actual flight plan in MS FS, it will ruin it for you. Nothing worse than gathering all this free stuff up to plan a flight and MS is completely different.
Navigraph has the largest amount of charts available, and the key is FMS Data Manager (in beta promised soon) that will sync the Navigraph Jeppesen charts database with MS FS 2020 so that you always have the latest (within 28 days) charts matching real world and MS FS matches those.
If you havn’t seen Navigraph in action:
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It looks really nice for simming. I’ll probably test it out in the, hopefully, not too far future. Gonna use the free stuff for the moment, though, to get a grasp on things (as to not be overwhelmed by all the information) and improve my flying chops ^^
Nice vids as well, very detailed 
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No. They are available on Skyvector as PDF if published.
it is time for microsoft to clarify how they intend to exploit their partnership with NAVBlue…
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I wouldn’t hold my breath. Not saying that free accurate charts and plates wouldn’t be awesome, but it’s always seemed (and been elsewhere) a premium type of addon. Does navblue even have charts? They would have to be Jeppesen charts I’m guessing.
No, they have IFR charts and they pass nav data and charts to microsoft that should then inject those in the sim (info source NAVBlue). I do not know (and don’t care) if this will be a free or paid service but now that Navigraph is almost ready some info would be useful
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I cannot wait for Charts+. What I don’t understand is how this has so little attention.
FMS Data sync from Navigraph to MS FS 2020 is in beta testing as we speak. The first handful of people starting installing this yesterday for testing.
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For jetliner operations I have Navigraph. For my low and slow VFR flights I tend to use Little Navmap. Be advised Navigraph charts covers the larger airports. Don’t expect it to cover your grass field around the corner.
Hope it helps,
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Navigraph all the way. The beta atm is more of a headache than not, not really usable other than for testing but it looks promising as they even add airfields that weren’t in the game at all.
But you need a running subscription to access the charts, don’t you?
If it has an IFR approach Navigraph has it. 6B6 in the US for example, 3100’ one paved one grass runway with an approach…