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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...

If the government stays the course, DUAT's days are numbered
in favor of LockMart's web service.


What course would that be?

How long do you all think it will be before we have to give Lockmart
our credit card number before receiving any service?

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
If the government stays the course, DUAT's days are numbered
in favor of LockMart's web service.


What course would that be?


To not modify the contract with LM that includes the
Internet FSS portal and not renew the DUAT contracts.

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
As soon as they pull the plug on DUAT, you won't have any
choice other than to go grovelling to LockMart if you want
to submit flightplans (unless you're going to do them from
your ATC facility).


Why would they pull the plug on DUAT?


Because they've contracted with LockMart for web-based
services that are redundant to that.

http://www.generalaviationnews.com/e...index&-nothing

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...

To not modify the contract with LM that includes the
Internet FSS portal and not renew the DUAT contracts.


Not renewing the contracts with the present providers of DUAT does not mean
there won't be DUAT.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...

Because they've contracted with LockMart for web-based
services that are redundant to that.


Which means DUAT will go on.

"SM" == Steven P McNicoll writes:
If the government stays the course, DUAT's days are numbered
in favor of LockMart's web service.

SM What course would that be?

To turn everything over to private, because private is so much more
efficient and delivers much better service. I just wish they'd
outsource the presidency. Oh wait, they did, to the VP and the
right-wing religious ayatollahs.

--
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is
indispensable.
Dwight Eisenhower

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...

To turn everything over to private, because private is so much more
efficient and delivers much better service.


Excellent. The private sector has been providing better service than FSS
for years.

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...

That's funny. When the government was running the FSS, things
worked. Now that private is running it, things suck.


When the government was running FSS it worked, but it didn't work as well as
DUAT and it cost considerably more. A better alternative to contracting FSS
would have been eliminating FSS.

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:25:54 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:

Go to DUATS, brief, file, fly...

Quite!

If every little airport had a decent Internet connection, I'd agree.

Well...not entirely. Pre-changeover I'd some very educational
conversations with FSS about weather in this area or that. DUATS doesn't
do that.

- Andrew