well, liability doesn't stop people from, say, making new avionics,
and putting all this procedural info into its computers, which has
even more potential to cause damage if it has errors in it.

paper charts are still very much in use, and it seems strange that
nobody comes up with better ways of putting them together, or
making various "products" out of them for every possible pilot's
income tranche. everybody i know agrees that jepp is overpriced,
and you usually wind up buying more from them than you actually need,
because their products are structured that way.


Emily wrote:
Andrey Serbinenko wrote:
Does anybody know why it so happened that there's literally
nobody else out there besides jepp in aeronautical charting
business? TERPS people develop the procedures, FAA test-flies
them, and all this info is publicly available. Yet, the only
commercial enterprise harvesting there is jepp. Between NACO and
them there's a substantial gap in terms of pricing and packaging
of services. Why is it empty?

Liability?