On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:53:23 GMT, Bob Noel
wrote in Message-Id:
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In article ,
(Martin Hellman) wrote:

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.

Jepp expends effort compiling, filtering, checking, and
formating that data. The data doesn't come out of the FAA
ready to copy into your GPS.

That is very true. Jeppesen does a lot of work formatting and
correcting the FAA data for use in each GPS receiver. They also
assume considerable liability risk in providing their products.