PLT RPTS PROBS WITH PHX VFR TERMINAL CHART.

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PHOENIX APCH HAS A REPUTATION AS UNCOOPERATIVE WITH SMALLER ACFT; SO I PROGRAMMED IN SQUAW PEAK; THE START OF THE TRANSITION THROUGH THE CLASS B AIRSPACE; INTO THE GPS SO THAT I COULD GIVE MY INITIAL POS RELATIVE TO SQUAW PEAK AND CONVEY THAT I HAD MY ACT TOGETHER. (I HAVE AN OLDER DATA CARD WHICH DOES NOT HAVE THE VISUAL POINTS.) AS WE GOT CLOSER TO THE GPS WAYPOINT; THINGS DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT. THE PF; A VERY COMPETENT (AS I OBSERVED ON OUR LAST FLT TOGETHER) BUT NOT LEGALLY CURRENT PLT; COMPLETED THE LEVELOFF AT 5000 FT THAT ATC INSTRUCTED. AFTER A FEW MOMENTS WITH THE TERMINAL AREA CHART; IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THERE WAS A GROSS GPS PROGRAMMING ERROR; AND WE RESUMED VISUAL NAV. HOWEVER; MY VERY COMPETENT FRIEND HAD US AT 4500 FT AND DSNDING; NOT FLYING THE AIRPLANE PER HIS REPUTATION. WE PROMPTLY TOOK APPROPRIATE REMEDIAL ACTION; AND XING PHX WAS UNEVENTFUL. I DISCOVERED THE PROB LATER. SQUAW PEAK IS XX MI FROM PXR ON THE 330 DEG RADIAL; BUT ON THE TERMINAL AREA CHART; ONLY ONE '3' IN '33' ON THE VOR COMPASS ROSE IS PRINTED -- THE OTHER IS OBSCURED BY OTHER SYMBOLOGY. WHAT I INTERPED AS '030' WAS IN FACT '330.' THUS THE GPS WAS PROGRAMMED WITH A 60 BEARING ERROR. I MADE THE MISTAKE; BUT I HAD A WHOLE LOT OF HELP FROM NOAA IN MAKING IT. ALSO; THE ARR PROCS FOR THE CGZ SPECIFY A PIT MINE 3.6 MI W OF THE ARPT; AND THAT VERY DISTINCTIVE PIT MINE IS NOT ON THE TERMINAL AREA CHART. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR REITERATED HIS BELIEF THAT THE VFR TERMINAL CHART SHOULD BE MORE CLR AND THAT THE OPEN PIT MINE 3.6 MI W OF CGZ SHOULD BE ON THE MAP.