Viewing the Charts
After you have designed your Chart Layout and built your first chart, you can view it by saving and approving it.
At least one aircraft type must be authorized to takeoff and land at an airport before the images will display on the EFB. See the Runways documentation for details. If an aircraft type is not authorized, the images will not display for that aircraft type.
Next sync the EFB, and pull up the chart to see how it looks. If you don’t like the way it looks, go back and change the Chart Layout and/or chart data and formatting until you like what you see. Each time you make a change and come back to the iPad you will have to sync to make sure you have the latest changes.
If images or information are missing, double check to be sure that the aircraft type is approved for use at that runway, since some of the data is pulled from that table.
Printing Charts
Print individual PDFs of charts for all aircraft types at a given runway (with the change history) by clicking on the printer icon at the top, which will create a PDF with charts for all aircraft types.
Or print all runway charts for an aircraft type by first selecting the reports icon,
Then search for “chart”, click on the report title, select charts for the desired aircraft type, then print.
Completing the Chart Portfolio
Once you are happy with your chart design, you will still need to review and edit each of your runway charts, for each of your aircraft types, until your chart portfolio is complete and correct.
Revision Status
On the EFB, each chart will display the last revision date at the top. If the revisions are less than 60 days old, the message will be yellow.
After 60 days the message will turn gray and simply give the last revision date.
Scroll down to view the change history.
As a recommended best practice, for each aircraft type, set the Aircraft Type EFB Preference to ignore changes prior to the date when the basic construction of the runway charts was completed.
This is designed to avoid teaching pilots to ignore what would otherwise be a long list of changes.
On the EFB, the revision block will turn red with a No Chart Revision Info message until the first time another revision is made to that chart.
Once your chart portfolio is complete and you are routinely managing chart revisions, be sure to have a robust process where one person makes the chart updates, and a second person reviews and approves the charts in accordance with these instructions.
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