Terminal Area charts or TAC (may be pronounced like “tack”) charts are the most detailed Chart available from the FAA for navigation, scaled at 1:250,000 (vs the 1:500,000 scale for sectional ...

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.) ...

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 ...