> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:36:19 +1100, Nick Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I must have missed it, sorry about that. Oh yeah, 2 months ago was exam
> > time, I stopped reading the list for a few weeks.
>
> No harm done. We're all unhappy, of course, but it's hard for
> non-Americans like me to complain too much -- the U.S. is removing
> information about our countries that our own governments never made
> freely available in the first place. The FAA database is still
> available for the U.S., but other governments (like mine) do not make
> their aero data available freely at all, and we've been lucky that the
> U.S. has made data for Canada, Europe, Asia, etc. available. It's so
> bad that the Garmin 296 GPS (which displays terrain and manmade
> obstructions) does not even display towers in Canada, because the
> Canadian government wanted royalties for every Garmin unit sold (!!!).
I guess we can all thank AOPA that GA's right to exist (and the things
it depends on) continues to be recognized in the US.
-Kip
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