Aeronautical charts

 


AERONAUTICAL CHARTS OVERVIEW

Caribbean Sky Tours is your source of aeronautical charts. If you are flying to Mexico, the Bahamas or Central America in a general aviation airplane, we offer a variety of VFR and IFR charts to suit your needs. We have detailed pages showing the charts available for specific regions:

Mexico charts

Bahamas and Caribbean charts

Central America charts

All charts can be purchased at the Caribbean Sky Tours on-line PILOT SHOP.

» VFR Charts

There are a number of different options for VFR charts including Mexican WAC charts, FAA WAC charts and DOD ONC charts, depending on the region you plan to over-fly. The following are brief descriptions of the different options available.

Download the Caribbean Sky Tours comparative analysis of VFR chart options for Mexico by clicking here.Comparative Analysis

Mexico WAC Charts

Published by INEGI - Mexico's National Institute of Statistics, Information & Geography. These World Aeronautical Charts (WAC) are for VFR flights to Mexico and contain topographical, airport and navaid information. Caribbean Sky Tours participated in the development of these charts and is an official distributor for INEGI.

These charts utilize the latest topographical, navaid and airport information available and we consider them to be far superior to the old DOD ONC Charts discussed below due to the quality of information and for their size and method of folding. VFR WAC charts do not show Terminal Control Areas (TCA) around large airports so it is a good idead to supplement them with an IFR Enroute Low Altitude chart which show TCA's. Mexico is divided into 12 regions and each region is named after a major city within the area covered by the chart. There are 2 regions printed on each chart for a total of 6 individual charts. However, the fact that this means that each chart will be named after 2 cities for the 2 regions printed on the chart can make it a little confusing. Therefore, we are also assigning region numbers to each chart to make it easier for pilots to select the appropriate chart. The charts are updated every 4 years. SCALE 1:1,000,000.

Click on the WAC Chart COVERAGE MAP below for more detailed information on each individual Mexico WAC chart and for observations reported for each chart. Pilots flying to Mexico will find these charts extremely valuable.

Tuxtla Merida VFR Chart MexicoVFR Chart Mexico

(click on a region below for more detail)

Mexico VFR Chart

 

FAA WAC Charts

Published by the FAA- Well known to pilots in the U.S., these World Aeronautical Charts (WAC) charts also show topographical information. FAA WAC chart territory coverage includes the Bahamas, Cuba, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Haiti, Dominican Republic and the northern Leeward islands as well as the USA-Mexico border. Pilots will find the information on an FAA WAC chart to typically be of superior quality to that on an ONC chart for the same territory.

Updated yearly except for CH-22 for Mexico (which is updated every two years). SCALE 1:1,000,000.

VFR Chart MexicoVFR WAC Chart Mexico

VFR Chart Mexico

 

DOD ONC Charts

Published by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, United States Government. These charts DO NOT show VOR's and they are updated every 10+ years (some charts have not been updated in 20 years). Much of the information for major, secondary and non-towered airports as well as coastlines and roads can be out of date or in error. The other major drawback to these charts is their large size (42" X 57.5") and the way they are folded which makes them difficult to use in the cabin of most small aircraft. We have been told that many of these charts for central and south America will no linger be published after the fall of 2008. Updated every 10-20 years (or more). SCALE 1:1,000,000.

ONC Chart MexicoONC Chart Mexico

ONC Chart Mexico

 



»IFR Charts

DOD Enroute Low Altitude Caribbean and South America IFR Charts are a great complement to VFR charts as they show navaids, airways and Terminal Control Areas (TCA) throughout the region which many VFR charts will not show. For IFR pilots requiring Instrument Approach Procedures, contact Caribbean Sky Tours.

DOD ENROUTE LOW ALTITUDE CARIBBEAN & SOUTH AMERICA

Published by the National Geospatial-Intellegince Agency, United States Government. These charts are similar to the DOD IFR enroute charts available for the domestic U.S. In fact, the FAA is taking over the publsihing of these charts for the civilian pilot. Due to a variety of legal and other issues, the coverage region for these charts has been reduced significantly to that shown below and now only covers Mexico, Central America, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Users of domestic NACO IFR charts will be familiar with the format and appearance of the Caribbean and South America IFR charts. Updated every 28 days. SCALE varies by chart.

IFR CHartIFR Chart

IFR CHart Coverage

Home Page!! Mexicali Hermosillo Juarez Chihuahua Nuevo Laredo Monterrey Culiacan Guadalajara Mexico Acapulco Merida Tuxtla_Gutierrez HER-MEX: Hermosillo-Mexicali (Chart 1) CHI-JUA: Chihuahua-Juarez (Chart 2) MTY-NLR: Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo (Chart 3) GUA-CUL: Guadalajara-Culiacan (Chart 4) ACA-MEX: Acapulco-Mexico (Chart 5) TUX-MER: Tuxtla Gutierrez-Merida (Chart 6)