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I can't blame them. If I lived outside the US, I would be pretty wary
about depending on a navigation system which I had no control over.

Half of me agrees with that, and finds it a reasonable position. If only it
weren't always the same companies gravitating around these projects. Just
today, the official announcement was made of Toulouse as the hub city for the
Galileo project (AirbusVille). So guess who - EADS, Alcatel, Thomson etc will
all be receiving strong subsidies to get set up there, and to "soften the blow"
of getting the project going, until they're ready to start raking in the big
cash when they start licensing.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the BEA (French NTSB) published a "white paper"
about GPS, stating it is a dangerous device, that "causes" pilots to be
inattentive and lose track of their situational awareness. I'll bet the
Brooklyn Bridge that when Galileo is ready to go on line the same agency will
hail it as a revolutionary invention, enhancing pilots' situational awareness.

By that time, Garmin will be up to G-3000 boxes, but if they try to make them
"Galileo Compliant" they will surely find that their boxes lack some code
required to be certified in JAA airspace.

GF