Charts

Types

• VFR CHARTS: 1:500,000
  • Caribbean VFR Chart scale is 1:1,000,000
• VFR FLYWAY PLANNING CHARTS 1:250,000. Flyway Planning Charts depict flight paths and altitudes recommended for use to by-pass areas heavily traversed by large turbine-powered aircraft.
• TAC: 1:250,000
• IFR ENROUTE CHARTS
  • Enroute High Altitude Charts (at or above 18,000 ft MSL.)
  • Enroute Low Altitude Charts
• TERMINAL PROCEDURE PUBLICATION (TPP)

FAA Users' Guide: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/aero_guide/

VFR

On VFR Charts, information about radio aids to navigation (NAVAID) are boxed.

A quadrant on Sectionals is the area bounded by ticked lines dividing each 30 minutes of latitude and each 30 minutes of longitude.

IFR Airways

Low Altitude (below FL 180):

• V: Victor Airways (Low Altitude) Black VOR airways
• T: Low Altitude RNAV Routes (T-Routes) Blue

High Altitude (FL 180 through FL 450):

• Q (blue): High Altitude RNAV Routes (Q-Routes)
• J (black): Jet Routes

More Airways

• TK: Helicopter RNAV Routes (TK Routes) Two helicopter RNAV routes (TK-routes) exist in the northeast corridor between the Washington, DC, and New York City metropolitan areas.
• Joint Victor/RNAV Routes (Low Altitude)
• Joint Jet/RNAV Routes (High Altitude)
• Unusable Route Segments
• Military Training Routes (MTRs): All IR and VR MTRs are shown on enroute charts, except VRs at or below 1500' AGL. They're numbered and published in brown.

Acronym

• svc = service.
• ctc = contact.
• APP = approach control