Best way to download Jeppesen paper charts

Buckerfan wrote:

Would I be able to download and print these charts, and from my Mac, rather than the clunky old laptop?

You can print them directly from the iPad.

Or click on the arrow in the upper right corner in Foreflight, select “Print”, pinch to zoom in to the previewed plate, click the arrow in the upper right corner, share with the Mac via Airdrop, print from the Mac.

You can via https://plan.foreflight.com/

I know AIP charts show up there but I’m not sure if Jepp charts also do. Maybe @Josh_Tahmasebi_ForeFlight can shed some light.

If you want paper charts then the only practical way is to have the Windows-based Jeppview / Flitestar / Flitemap / Flitedeck program.

Jeppview should work OK. What sort of issue do you have with it? Just right-click on the airport and select Print. The pic below is Flitemap but IIRC Jeppview looks the same

and you get lovely A5 terminal charts printed, with no batteries that go flat

The IOS based devices cannot print (usefully). See e.g. here and I am not sure whether anything has changed. Jepp told me the main reason they are moving everything to IOS is because bootlegging is harder with it (harder on IOS than an Android, too, which is why most of these apps are not on Android, or why e.g. the Android version of Garmin pilot can’t have Jepp charts on it).

Peter wrote:

The IOS based devices cannot print (usefully).

The AIP plates printed from FF (iPhone, iPad) look just fine, I don’t see the reason why Jepp plates printed from FF wouldn’t be equally good.

Peter wrote:

Just right-click on the airport and select Print.

Just to add to this:

1. You can save the plates as PDF files also, by selecting “Print to PDF”, but make sure to uncheck the tick-box that says “rely on system fonts only”, because otherwise it makes a mess of the Jeppesen fonts.
2. Print in the Jepp “kneeboard” format, with two plates side by side, and print only on one side of the paper. That way you can fold the A4 down the middle and you get the two A5 plates.
3. I am a bit “OCD” with this, I like that each pair of plates (that is, each piece of paper), has two plates that make sense: for instance the ILS 09 on one side and the ILS 27 on the other side. To ensure it you may have to print your plates in groups of an even number of plates. If you just print the entire airport pack, it won’t care about this. This may be just me though…

Yes exactly; Jepp use custom fonts etc to print various chart symbols. It would not surprise me if they created a truetype character depicting a glideslope It’s a crappy way to do it and occassionally breaks. You must check printouts (paper or PDF) after generating them.

The AIP plates printed from FF (iPhone, iPad) look just fine, I don’t see the reason why Jepp plates printed from FF wouldn’t be equally good.

I would be amazed if you could print a whole airport to either a printer or a PDF. Jepp specifically blocked that, because that is how “unofficial clubs” share the data. Of course, as my link above describes, you can screenshot and then print or combine to a pdf, etc, etc.

The AIP plates are PDF to start with. You can download these e.g. via the EuroGA airport database, under the AIP button. Very simple. But much stuff is missing unless you €€€€ extra – example.

Buckerfan wrote:

Nothing will persuade me to abandon paper charts, nor am I prepared to use non-Jepp charts.

You can easily create routepacks and print all desired charts at once using Jeppesen Elink Portal.