We will see after taking a closer look, but right now I must assume, there also have been other reasons for the migration. It sounds nice, but does not sound like a crucial factor right out-of-the-box to me. Judging from the charts shown in that news post that means that STAR charts also contain topographic information and not just the approach plates, which already did so with Navtech's product, of course. In the news post cited in the beginning they cite the "true-to-scale topographic infromation such as mountain heights and river courses" as one of the major benefits of that product.
Navigraph switched from Navtech to Lufthansa Systems' Lido series of charts. Not much to report on the UI site, so let us continue on to the really interesting part, the new charts. Especially there have not been any improvements to the enroute chart integration, meaning that the user experience still lags behind the free SkyVector website, as I noted in my previous blog post on chart products. In the cloud-based interface I also don't find any other changes than the same addition of color coding to the chart listings. A nice little touch to have this in the application UI, it might make it easier to quickly find the charts for the larger airports. My guess is, the original real life aviation product they are based on come in binders and this makes it easier to find the approriate pages. This color coding reflects the color coding used on the charts themselves. The charts are now color coded in the listings, making it possible to easily distinguish between "General", "SID", "STAR" and "Terminal" charts. As far as I can tell, other than the obvious replacement of the contained charts, only one minor UI element has been added. So, let us first discuss the new desktop software, "Navigraph Charts 5" (updated from version 4). My biggest fear as they announced an upcoming evolution of their products was that they would discontinue the desktop product with tablets being omnipresent nowadays, fortunately that did not happen.
Accounts are always valid for both, during pre-flight I tend to use the desktop software while enroute I occasionally have the cloud product open on a small laptop computer next to me.
Navigraph comes with both a desktop software (on Windows) to download and print the charts as well as a web-based "Charts Cloud".
I will update those posts and take the opportunity to evaluate their new offering to see if it is worth the subscription extension that is coming up for my account. This, of course, comes about a week I released a post on their product and their pricing.
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