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CL600 captain believes that many STAR's have become unreadable as a standard paper chart due to the font size required by the size of the chart page.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1228435 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201412 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | HOU.Airport |
| State Reference | TX |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Challenger CL600 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Route In Use | STAR KIDDZ1 |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 15000 Flight Crew Type 800 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Concern about readability of stars which have been condensed from easily readable foldouts to minimum single page. Example: houston; tx (hou) kiddz one arrival. Due to extreme minimization; some fixes are unreadable. We were switched from another STAR to this one which has some unreadable fix names. You can barely discern some of the letters even with a 10x loupe that jewelers use. This is unsafe! All charts should be able to be read quickly and easily. Maybe you can do something about this situation.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: CL600 Captain believes that many STAR's have become unreadable as a standard paper chart due to the font size required by the size of the chart page.
Narrative: Concern about readability of STARS which have been condensed from easily readable foldouts to minimum single page. Example: HOUSTON; TX (HOU) KIDDZ ONE ARRIVAL. Due to extreme minimization; some fixes are unreadable. We were switched from another STAR to this one which has some unreadable fix names. You can barely discern some of the letters even with a 10x loupe that jewelers use. THIS IS UNSAFE! All charts should be able to be read quickly and easily. Maybe you can do something about this situation.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.