Tim Olson
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2879
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 Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 12:18 pm Post subject: CSC / Lockheed get DUATS contract |
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I know, it's not RV-10 related, but we did talk about the topic
a little a few years ago.
So Lockheed and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) won the
contract to provide DUATS.
If you remember, CSC is somehow tied to the makers of FlightPrep,
who are the ones who went around suing everyone who was making
online flight planners. DTC was the "good" one, but they
are now out after 25 years of doing it. Lockheed has it's
own system in place. Users have a 60-day transition time to
switch to the new providers.
http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/flight-planning/lockheed-and-csc-offer-duats?cmpid=enews051415&spPodID=030&spMailingID=22653172&spUserID=NDc4NjE3MTE3OQS2&spJobID=561343644&spReportId=NTYxMzQzNjQ0S0
I know which one *I* will use....definitely not one provided
by the lawsuit happy corp.
It should also be noted that I believe a while back, foreflight
started working to directly interact with Lockheed Martin
for flight plan filing. If I remember right, you just have to
clear out your DUATS info and then it will use Lockheed.
At the time, they said it was better and faster anyway.
So I did that and haven't looked back.
I just thought I'd provide that food for thought as you all
go about tweaking your iPads and devices with the new
account settings. I'll have to even doublecheck what
WingX and FlyQ use, but hopefully everyone will have whatever
app updates are required so that we can file through
L.M. and can skip anything to do with CSC. Yes, when
a company acts like they did, I hold a grudge. Forever. 
Tim
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