AOPA Flight Planner - Microsoft only?

Bob wrote:

David Brooks wrote:


Oh, wait, there was a web-based planner, wasn't there. I take back; let's
ask AOPA to restore it. Then I can run it from Redhat Linux running in
Virtual PC on my XP laptop :-)


The web based planner was just CSC DUATS with the AOPA logo in front of it.

PLUS links from various results pages to the AOPA airport
directory, approach plates, etc.

I'm using CSC again since the new and improved AOPA
program doesn't run on Unix and I miss those features.

Still, I understand that the majority rules (unless its in
politics).

For those folks who want to say that since MS is the majority
operating system and all others don't matter becasue they are an
unimportant minoroty, how would you feel if all of a sudden AOPA
started only offering general aviation support for people who own and
fly Cessnas just because there are more of them than any other GA
single-engine plane and used the excuse that all other brands of
aircraft are a minority and don't matter to them?

So when is Plan 9 going to take over the world anyway?

Don

You know full well that is a secret!


"Don Tuite" wrote in message
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So when is Plan 9 going to take over the world anyway?

Don

One's Too Many wrote:

For those folks who want to say that since MS is the majority
operating system and all others don't matter becasue they are an
unimportant minoroty, how would you feel if all of a sudden AOPA
started only offering general aviation support for people who own and
fly Cessnas just because there are more of them than any other GA
single-engine plane and used the excuse that all other brands of
aircraft are a minority and don't matter to them?

Again. AOPA is NOT doing this. Jeppesen is.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Again. AOPA is NOT doing this. Jeppesen is.

Did Jeppesen buy AOPA or do they have pictures of
AOPA management in compromising positions or something?

Doug Carter wrote:

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Again. AOPA is NOT doing this. Jeppesen is.

Did Jeppesen buy AOPA or do they have pictures of
AOPA management in compromising positions or something?

No. Jeppesen produced the program. AOPA provides it to their members for free.
If you want the program to support something besides Windows, talk to Jep.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

Bottom line is that it was supplied for very limited cost, and under such
circumstances, notwithstanding the various merits of different OS platforms,
it is better that it supports the greatest percentage of users.


"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Doug Carter wrote:

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Again. AOPA is NOT doing this. Jeppesen is.

Did Jeppesen buy AOPA or do they have pictures of
AOPA management in compromising positions or something?

No. Jeppesen produced the program. AOPA provides it to their members for
free.
If you want the program to support something besides Windows, talk to Jep.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that
would
not yield to the tongue.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Again. AOPA is NOT doing this. Jeppesen is.

Did Jeppesen buy AOPA or do they have pictures of
AOPA management in compromising positions or something?

No. Jeppesen produced the program. AOPA provides it to their members for free.
If you want the program to support something besides Windows, talk to Jep.

This could be interpreted as an assertion that AOPA has no
choice but to endorse
and promote Jeppesen's product and stop their support of
the CSC version.


I think it rather more likely that AOPA management decided
to switch to Jeppesen
because of the improved TFR support and the more
impressive graphics despite
the loss of non Microsoft equipped users.

As an AOPA member I hope Jeppesen provides the program for
free to AOPA; that
would be nice.

I've tried it using virtual pc on my powerbook 1.33 ghz and it works
just fine. I also use Safelog on my vpc because there's not much in the
way of logbooks on the mac and this works fine too. I think it's
extremely comfortable to be able to use software that's too specialized
to ever get released for the mac without needing 2 computers.

Funny how it always ends up a raging OS war though.... "My daddy is
stronger than your daddy"!

On 2004-03-18 19:05:34 -0500, Andrew Gideon said:

I tried to go to the AOPA Flight Planning web page today, and found
that the only option remaining is to download a Microsoft-only
application. This seems annoying.

Sure, I was able to go directly to the duat web site, and it was fine.
But I'm a member of AOPA, and they've eliminated a benefit from my use
merely because I prefer to use a more robust computing environment.

Especially given what's going on with viruses, worms, zombie machines,
and the like, requiring that AOPA members used one particular unsafe
platform to exercise an organization benefit seems foolish.

Has this issue been raised to AOPA and ignored? Is something in the
works for the rest of us? Anyone here know what's going on?

- Andrew