Larry Dighera wrote in message . ..
I just found it ironic that Boeing/Jeppesen, who are in the business
of providing contract ATC services to nations that are privatizing, is
unhappy about the prospect of paying.

I agree! It's really annoying to me that my taxpayer dollars pay for
the FAA compile the data, Jeppesen gets that data for free, and I have
to pay Jepp to put it in my GPS.

Paying once for a Jepp database may make sense, but for the updates,
all I care about is changed FAA airspace, moved airports, and other
data that they get from the FAA. I'd really like to see a standard
format for updating GPS databases and the ability to then update
monthly, without paying Jepp, from an FAA database.

But I suspect that will never happen, even though it would add to
safety since few pilots update their databases monthly now, largely
because of the cost.

Martin