Understanding how to read a sectional chart is a vital, and useful, to know as a pilot. Learn more about sectional charts here. [Credit: iStock] Published by the National Aeronautical Navigation ...

What is the scale of a VFR sectional chart? VFR sectional charts are drawn to a 1:500,000 scale. This provides detailed information while covering a large geographic area.

On a sectional, each quadrangle covers an area the size of a postage stamp, and it takes 2,000 of them to make up an entire sectional chart. (An inch on a sectional is just under eight miles.) ...

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Two new mountain passes in Alaska’s Brooks Range are now displayed on sectional charts, as of March 24. The new charts identify the Naqsralugiaq and Carters passes, with displayed elevations as ...