Thank you for the information. There are a lot of different charts: whats the difference between them maybe you can explain??
As far as the VFR charts go, you have world charts, sectionals, and terminal charts. The difference is simply a matter of scale- each shows more or less area.
I'll download a raster chart then I can take a look at it. Looking forward to the tutorial. Are there really no european charts??
There are plenty of sources where you can
buy them, but I haven't seen any free ones available for download. Mind you, I haven't looked very hard, and in some cases the language barrier was a problem for me.
Those raster charts from the NOAA are huge files, so you might also have a look here... with this site, you can also plot a course, and get rudimentary heading and distance information. Before I started working on scaled-down pdfs of all the US sectionals, I used to use screencaps from skyvector.
http://skyvector.com/Another useful site, where you can see your course laid across multiple sectionals, is runwayfinder:
http://runwayfinder.com/