Charts A. VFR and IFR Enroute Charts. Cross-Country simulator flying should never be attempted without the real charts covering your route. They allow you to do realistic flight planning and make it infinitely more fun when you can track your flight on an actual chart of the flight. I couldn't get along without them. And since we are not really flying, we don't have to keep them updated every three months.
Outdated ones work as well as new ones.
I'm embarrassed to admit some of mine are almost ten years old. IFR Charts can be obtained in several ways. Any flight school at your local airport will sell them and is the most convenient, but the many Internet sources of aviation products will send them to you and put them on your credit card. B. Approach Plates. There is a program which provides an excellent source of approach charts for flight simulator pilots.