Aeronautical chart

Aeronautical charts are an important basis for the planning of routes and for navigation during flight. The map projection and the main content is governed internationally by the ICAO; However, the exact layout or the type of representation of terrain and forest are left to the state.

The most common cards for visual flight, and for detailed flight planning are held overview maps at scales of 1:500,000 and 1:1 million and in conformal conic projection. But there is for slower aircraft used for general aviation and gliding in many areas also großmaßstäbigere cards such as the aerospace General Germany map at a scale of 1:200,000.

The air traffic control overprint is compiled annually, while the topographic maps fundamental long period of time remains the same. The print is decorated in blue and contains, among other things, all airways, airspace structure, airfields and the beacon with name, frequency and Morse code, especially omnidirectional radio (VOR), DME, Non-Directional Beacon ( NDB ) and markers of the start and runways.

Next prescribes the ICAO "Map Notes " a coordinate grid in a uniform reference system, the representation of the larger towns, terrestrial roads and water bodies, and information on the magnetic declination ( declination ).

ICAO 1:500,000 scale maps provide control zones ( D airspace ) colored as pink areas represents the altitude of the upper boundary refers to sea level ( MSL). The addition of HX indicates that the zones are only intermittently active. The transport areas (areas of airspace E) are now generally bordered blue.

The DFS German Air Traffic Control offers the aeronautical charts for IFR flights (IFR ) in Germany and Flights ( VFR) in Germany and in other European countries. The latter, under the name Airfield Guide.

Another supplier of aeronautical charts is the company Jeppesen, part of the Boeing group. Cards for instrument flight (without terrain representation ) are offered under the name Jeppesen and maps for visual flying under the name Bottlang ( Airfield Manual) and Jeppesen (VFR GPS Charts ).

Provider of aeronautical charts for use by professional Airlines is specially for example, Lufthansa Systems AG with the product " Lido ".