Quite honestly, I do not understand why the updates are so expensive.
Perhaps my understanding is incorrect, but I thought that all of the
navigation data used
was available for free from the FAA in electronic format ?
And, Jeppesen reformat that data and sell it directly or via Garmin to us
users ?

If I was correct, then the only cost to Jeppesen is the cost of the software
to automatically
reformat the nav data and a run for each new cycle.

How far away am I from the real facts ???

--
Roy
N5804F Piper Archer

"I have had some bad landings but I have never missed the runway"


"abripl" wrote in message
ups.com...
Wow, what a scam. They charge $105 for just one update and then force
you
to pay $315 for an entire year. Must be nice to have a monopoly on the
data.

Scam... Yes. Take a look again... They just jacked up their prices by a
whopper. Those greedy b....... Thats what monopoly does. Isn't there
somebody else out there to offer competition?