Jeppesen Paper Charts Stop, and CASA Exams Still Ban EFBs
CASA says Jeppesen ends paper publications on 31 October 2026. Existing printed sets may still be taken into flight-crew exams where permitted, but electronic Jeppesen products and EFBs stay prohibited.
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Updated November 2, 2026
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CASA told flight-crew exam candidates on 28 October 2026 that Jeppesen is discontinuing all paper publications from 31 October 2026. The change, as CASA describes it, covers Jeppesen paper products as a class: manuals, maps, charts, and instrument approach and departure procedures.
From 1 November 2026, CASA says candidates may keep using existing Jeppesen printed material where that material is already permitted in the exam. The same notice says those publications will not be updated after 31 October, so the sheets may not match current aeronautical data. Electronic Jeppesen publications, including copies used through an electronic flight bag, remain prohibited in CASA examinations.
The notice points candidates to CASA's materials-allowed page for the list that still governs the exam room. That page has not been replaced by a one-line "Jeppesen is withdrawn" rule. The practical problem for a training organisation is the gap between a frozen paper set and the currency rule that was already on the materials page.
What the exam room still allows
CASA's materials page says a candidate may use either Airservices Australia material or Jeppesen material, and may not use both. The sets have to match. An Airservices AIP is used with Departure and Approach Procedures (DAP) East and West, and with the maps and charts appropriate to the exam. A Jeppesen Airway Manual is used with Jeppesen approach plates, maps and charts.
Unless a subject says otherwise, regulations, orders and air publications need to be current for the date of the exam. That sentence sits on the same page as the either-or rule. CASA's 28 October notice does not repeal it. It adds a warning that an unrevised Jeppesen paper set may no longer be current aeronautical data. A candidate who wants current plates, and who cannot mix Airservices DAPs into a Jeppesen set, is pushed toward a complete Airservices paper set rather than a hybrid.
Other permissions on the materials page are unchanged by the Jeppesen notice and still matter for schools printing their own packs.
Self-printed copies are acceptable for the AIP book, CASR, CAR, Civil Aviation Orders, CAAPs, the Visual Flight Rules Guide for PPL and RPL exams, and CASA plain-English guides, if they are printed unaltered from the relevant site, include headers and footers, are bound with no loose sheets, and contain no handwritten notes. CASA does not approve self-printed ERSA, DAPs, en-route charts, world aeronautical charts, or other maps. A school cannot fill the Jeppesen gap by printing approach plates at home.
Tag limits still apply. The AIP book, or its Jeppesen equivalent, may carry up to 15 tags. ERSA may carry up to five. Charts may not be tagged. Tags cannot hold formulae, cross-references or study notes. CAR, CASR and CAO volumes may not be tagged at all.
Australian Defence Force candidates may use specified flight-information publications in place of the matching Airservices documents, with a current ADF photographic identity document. CASA notes that Air Combat Group facilities publications do not contain every procedure or location used in the instrument-rating exam, and it recommends DAP East and West for those instrument approaches.
What stays outside the room
The prohibition that will surprise students who fly with a tablet is the device rule, and CASA has restated the Jeppesen half of it. Electronic versions of Jeppesen publications, including those used through an electronic flight bag, remain prohibited. The materials page already bars electronic devices, including phones, cameras, laptops and tablets, and bars electronic flight-planning computers or similar devices. Using a prohibited item can end the exam and lead to further action.
That split is the operational point. An EFB can be legal in the aircraft and still be forbidden in the CASA exam. After 31 October, the electronic product is also the only Jeppesen product Jeppesen is still revising, on CASA's account of the company's decision. The revised data and the exam-legal data are no longer the same object.
Invigilators still provide pens, an eraser, a pencil, a ruler, a sharpener and scribble paper. Candidates must bring the required documents themselves and cannot borrow another candidate's books. Provided material, including scribble paper and calculations, stays in the room.
What training organisations can do with the rule as written
A school that has been issuing Jeppesen paper for exam candidates has three constraints at once. New paper revisions stop. Old paper may be carried in only where CASA already permitted that publication, and it may be out of date. The electronic replacement cannot go into the exam. Mixing a current Airservices DAP with a leftover Jeppesen chart breaks the either-or rule.
The path the materials page already describes, for a candidate who needs current Australian plates, is the Airservices set: AIP book, ERSA, DAP East and West, and the charts the subject requires, all current on the exam date, with the tag limits observed. Self-printed AIP text can be part of that pack. Self-printed DAPs and charts cannot.
Schools should also separate line-flying kit from exam kit in the briefing. A student who has moved the whole navigation set onto an EFB still needs a paper set that matches one publisher for the sitting. CASA's 28 October notice is the warning that the Jeppesen paper half of that choice is no longer being maintained.
CASA has not, in the notice read for this article, published a subject-by-subject waiver that declares expired Jeppesen sheets current. The currency sentence on the materials page remains the one to brief.
