FAA Chart: VFR TAC BOSTON TBOS (Current Edition)

hi i'm don from dawn drones on what you're about to hear you should never need to know to fly a drone but transport canada does require drone pilots to be able to read understand and actually use vfr charts so let's get into it vfr charts are designed for manned aircraft pilots to fly using vfr or visual flight rules which basically means they're flying at low to medium altitudes with good visibility the maps are intended to provide five bits of information landmarks such as rivers lakes highways and built up areas aerodromes and some of their basic characteristics airways and controlled airspace navigational aids and hazards such as obstructions towers glider areas and restricted airspace there are two kinds of vfr charts vnc and vta charts vnc stands for vfr navigation charts and in the us these are called sectional charts they have a scale of one to five hundred thousand when in pape