deej(at)deej.net
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 Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:51 am Post subject: It was fun while it lasted. FAA to charge for "free" charts |
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On 11/17/2011 12:47 PM, Gary Vogt wrote:
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Exactly! 
There are two issues with their announcement:
1) We are already paying for them to collect the data through our tax
money. An extra charge above and beyond that is essentially another
form of "user fee" in disguise. This is a little disturbing, however
the really bad part is:
2) The really the important point to take away from it is the fact that
individuals will no longer have direct access, and only companies that
have a distribution contract will have access, ie Garmin and Jeppesen.
The people developing WingX and Foreflight will not have direct access,
and will have to pay the exorbitant fees that Garmin and Jeppesen will
charge.
I could suffer with 1) if the cost were reasonable (less than the cost
of the paper version) and if anyone could simply go to the website and
download the data as they can now. I can think of no LEGITIMATE reason
why the downloads should be limited to a few privileged companies.
-Dj
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Dj Merrill - N1JOV
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