New Jepp Pricing

Actually it is more than double what I currently pay for my current subscription, but that's for a KLN-89B.

It also says it includes "Regional Paper Enroute charts".  Really?

Given the current state of play, I'd like to see a Jepp bundle which serves the 540s and Aspens.

The charts on the 540 are georeferenced which is nice, and once you land the chart swaps to the airport diagram which is nice. On my dual setup, I have the top box on the map view and the bottom box on the appropriate chart. It is a nice addition.

Looks like $662 for the basic VFR nav set if you get your approach charts on Foreflight.

FORANE wrote: $994? $662? Jeppesen did not make this very clear.  Either way, I do not like those figures.  I have been paying $330 for East/Central USA NavData on the 430.  One thing I can say is if it will be about 1 thousand annually to keep the box current, the box will not get a subscription.  This is a deal breaker for me.  At that price I will have a new IFD440 for sale.

You're lucky - in EU land they want €1783 per year. I think I might be cancelling too

All I want is a database to fly IFR en-route and approaches in the US (no charts).   Right now I pay Bendix-King $410 a year for this sort of navdata (coverage includes US, Canada, Latin America), however the GPS is not WAAS.  I could see maybe paying a little extra for LPV approaches, etc.   I don't cross the continent very often (about every two years) so I guess I could settle for less routine coverage, though I wonder about the economics of one-time updates for expanded coverage.

I made an account with Jepp to see the pricing and it looks reasonable - I assume this is for a year of data



Edited by Royski - 01 Aug 2014 at 8:41am

Paul wrote: Forane, are you comparing full US for the IFD versus East/Central for the 430?  If so, I think you'll find you can get East/Central for the IFD.

I do have a jepp account and could not find the pricing options below, but yes, that is much better.

Royski wrote: I made an account with Jepp to see the pricing and it looks reasonable - I assume this is for a year of data

Then give me a day or four to get Jepp to straighten this out.  The new bundled prices are *much* lower than they used to be.  You should be getting Jepp data at the price of government data.

Steve, will Avidyne make the ICD for the database public so other companies like Seattle Avionics can compete with jepp? 

The IFD540 Jepp Navdata only prices for Europe (excl charts) are 11% more expensive than for the Garmin 430W/530W and have less coverage.

I just went on the Jepp site, and for 1 IFD-540, the NAVDATA subscription for FULL US is $465.  For the CHART subscription for FULL US, it is an additional $940.

If you're using the 540 simulator, on the MAP page there are 2 sub pages, one called Map and the other, Charts.  it's my understanding that the Map sub page will show what you normally see when running approaches on the Garmin 530:  i.e. approach waypoints.  The Charts page shows the actual chart as it appears on paper and is geo-referenced, showing your progress on the chart.  That's the extra Jepp charge, I think.  You can get the same thing from Foreflight on an Ipad for about $140 a year.

The 540 navdata does add approach altitude info, a nice improvement over the G530.