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No more charts?
I saw this over on comp.risks... Apparently there is a proposal to
have the FAA stop publishing charts for "security reasons". Am I reading this correctly? Does this mean the end of charts for navigation? Or just that they will cost twice as much and have to be purchased from a private company? http://www.urisa.org/Board_Initiatives/NGA.htm Chris -- Chris Colohan Email: PGP: finger Web: www.colohan.com Phone: (412)268-4751 |
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Hmmmm. Perhaps I should read more before posting. The AOPA has a
nice summary of the issues he http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_tra...od_charts.html Chris === Chris Colohan writes: I saw this over on comp.risks... Apparently there is a proposal to have the FAA stop publishing charts for "security reasons". Am I reading this correctly? Does this mean the end of charts for navigation? Or just that they will cost twice as much and have to be purchased from a private company? http://www.urisa.org/Board_Initiatives/NGA.htm Chris -- Chris Colohan Email: PGP: finger Web: www.colohan.com Phone: (412)268-4751 -- Chris Colohan Email: PGP: finger Web: www.colohan.com Phone: (412)268-4751 |
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Chris Colohan wrote:
Am I reading this correctly? No, you aren't. Check out the link on that page to AOPA's take on the matter. Here's an excerpt -- "Paper Charts — The proposal will not have any impact on domestic aeronautical charted products (sectionals, IAPs, etc.), which are produced by the FAA National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO). If the military navigation charts are withdrawn from the public, pilots flying outside of the United States will have to buy charts from private vendors, usually at a higher cost than the NGA charts. The most immediate impact on AOPA members will be the loss of popular operational international navigation charts (ONC), which include enroute charts for the Caribbean and South America, the supplement of Caribbean airport information, and instrument approach charts for the Caribbean and South America. Flight Planning Programs and Software — Vendors who use this information for their domestic and international flight planning products will have to turn to more expensive alternatives if their access to that free information were cut off in October 2005. While the FAA is in discussions with the NGA to try and preserve the data for domestic products, the FAA does not maintain any international flight information database and has no plan to develop any at this time." The gist of this is that there will be no change in domestic charts (this, of course, means no change in security). The REST of the world will be arguably made more secure from U.S. pilots -- at least, those who can't afford to buy charts from foreign vendors. GPS and LORAN databases will be a different matter, however, as will be flight planning programs. The net effect will be that database and software providers will have to buy this data from foreign companies. Is that Pennsylvania congresscritter behind this one too? George Patterson Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry, and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing? Because she smells like a new truck. |
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Chris Colohan wrote:
I saw this over on comp.risks... Apparently there is a proposal to have the FAA stop publishing charts for "security reasons". Not FAA, NGA, formerly known as the Defense Mapping Agency (and then NIMA: Not into mapping anymore). NIMA produces a variety of aviation charts: WAC, JNC, ONC, etc.. for the entire world. Most civil pilots don't see any of these other than WAC's. |
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