Victor’s Vectors: Regional FliteCharts Available Now

I was watching TV with my wife this last week and she stopped the channel surfing on a movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan called You’ve Got Mail.  One thing that stuck in my head about the movie was the scene where Meg Ryan’s character was going online and you can hear the dial tone that people who had internet in the late 90’s remember so well.  I remember thinking about how a 56 k modem used to be high speed.  Now we live in a world advertising cable internet at 15 MBPS and fiber optic download speeds of 20 - 50 MBPS.  Unfortunately, not everyone can have the benefits of the state of art internet speeds.  I even occasionally hear that same dial up sound on the phone when talking to customers in remote areas.  For these customers I can imagine the angst they must experience when downloading large files.  Especially large files like the FliteCharts database which at the current cycle is almost 700 MB.  Well Garmin feels your pain and recently released regionalized FliteCharts.  The full US is still available for those of us with good download speeds but for those customers who don’t want to let the computer run all night the regional updates are about half the size of the full US.  These regions significantly reduce download times and get you flying that much sooner. 

The FliteCharts and other databases are available to purchase and download through fly.Garmin.com.

Eastern US FliteCharts Database

The following areas are covered:
Alabama, Conneticut, Deleware, Florida, Georgia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virgina, West Virgina, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Western US FliteCharts Database

The following areas are covered:
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, and some Pacific Territories

Central US FliteCharts Database

The following areas are covered:
Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin