"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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| In a previous article, (Andrew Sarangan) said:
| (Paul Tomblin) wrote in message
| ...
| 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.

The key difference between the FAA and NavCanada, is that the FAA is a
government organization, while NavCanada is privately run. They're not
incented to do anything for free. NavCanada didn't "force" anyone to do
anything. They were granted it by the MoT, much to the chagrine of a bunch
of private pilots. They closed valuable flight service stations at key
training locations in Canada (gripe: Buttonville for one) against massive
protests that fell on deaf ears. IMO, they're be just as happy to get rid of
us all, and just service the airlines at major airports.