The NIMA Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File web site will
cease being available to those of us who are civilians, sometime in the
next few months. This is the data that has been used for several years
to generate the SUA files for the Worldwide Turnpoint Exchange, as well
as many flight analysis programs, for the US and much of the rest of the
world.

This is apparently being done to keep terrorists from getting their
hands on airspace data they can use to build dirty bombs, or something,
and, oh by the way, it will make the world a safer place for Jeppesen.

Now the FAA promised something like 5 years ago that they would make the
airspace and facilities data freely available on their web site. As far
as I can tell, this never happened. The National Geodetic Survey UDDF
files will apparently continue to be available on the NGS web site, but
they only contain airport, navaid, and obstruction data.

Assuming we have an impending SUA data crisis on our hands, what steps
can we take to make sure valid SUA data continues to be freely available
for the US? Bug the SSA and/or FAA?

Marc