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Old April 18th 07, 02:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Paul Tomblin
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Default NGA US navigational data at risk?

In a previous article, Doug Vetter said:
Has anyone seen the notice on the NGA website that the USFIF (raw
aviation waypoint data for the US) will be discontinued in October of 2007?

They tried to kill DAFIF as a whole last year but eventually succumbed
to pressure from the industry to allow US territorial data to remain
available. If I'm reading this correctly, however, they're about to
screw us anyway (read the second notice down from the top):


You weren't paying attention. When they "succumbed to pressure", they
said they'd make USFIF available FOR ONE YEAR. This has always been the
plan.

In the meantime, the FAA is working on providing the data that is in USFIF
that isn't in the ATA-100 data CD (namely, the airspace boundaries).


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