In a previous article, (Andrew Sarangan) said:
(Paul Tomblin) wrote in message
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No. NavCanada are a bunch of greedy selfish *******s, and you can quote
me on that.
Are you saying that the FAA is overly generous? The FAA does not
provide any funding for AOPA, Airnav or Aeroplanner. These are all
individual efforts. Is NavCanada refusing to release airport database
to individuals? If that is the case then you may have a point.

I get FAA data on CD for $36 every 56 days. And there is no restriction
on redistributing that data - I put it on a ftp site for anybody else to
grab.

NavCanada, on the other hand, forced the originator of the Canadian
equivalent data (Energy Mines and Resources, later National Resources
Canada) to stop distributing it to anybody but them. And they flat out
refuse to distribute it to the general public. Sorry, they don't "flat
out" anything - they just tell you they have to do one more thing before
they can, and then they stop talking to you.

I've contacted them numerous times about it. One time they told me they'd
do it if I signed a paper holding them harmless in the event of a lawsuit,
and referred me to their legal staff, but the legal staff refused to draw
up the paper, and told me that they wouldn't accept a paper that I had a
lawyer draw up. Eventually, in every case, they just stopped answering my
email.

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