SUA maps

Henryk Birecki wrote:
Below is a reply I got from NGA. It appears that some data may still
be available but a) it will be by subscription payement, b) only US
(?), c) in a different format (It costs $250 to get the format
standard document .... any rich uncles ? )

The US airport/SUA/airway/navaid data is (and has been for many years)
available from the FAA Aeronautical Information Services Division, by
subscription:

http://www.faa.gov/ats/ata/ata100/120/datadistr.html

For soaring use, 4 or 5 of the CDs would be needed at $36/CD, 6 times
per year, or roughly $1000/year. This obviously creates a logistical
problem. Someone would have to subscribe, reformat the data, and
redistribute it. SSA, maybe?

Marc

Next year South Africa again, I hope. Just returned from Argentina.
Natalie

Now that is neat, create SUA and keep it a secret.
Sort of airbourne lottery - Today I flew cross country
and did not fly into SUA I did not know was there.
Mark you I suppose it could be difficult to check.
Are you sure you have not been talking to the wonderful
people in Brussels, sounds like something they would
really go for.



At 07:30 10 December 2004, Marc Ramsey wrote:
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