On 2005-08-21, Roy Smith wrote:
My club has been installing JPI's on most of our planes. It is true that
they're over-priced, and have totally inscrutable user interfaces, but this
is true of almost all avionics. What in particular makes you not like JPI?

JPI have done many dubious things as a company. The most recent example,
after finding out that pilots are hooking up computers to one of their
gauges and the pilot community has made useful programs to analyse the
data, they encrypted the data to stop people doing that. That, to me, is
basically sociopathic behaviour. They basically found out people were
making the instrument they bought more useful - so decided to cripple
the instrument.
http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_18b.../189696-1.html

They have also bullied a smaller firm (Matronics):
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:M...ient=firefox-a

The encryption issue is enough to make me not want to use a company's
product.
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