rustle
Far too many ******** who don't know their arse from their elbow and don't seem too bothered to find out, either
Here you are, kindly donating your spare minutes in order to represent GA at a meeting, and all you get is ridicule and abuse.
**** 'em.
I would suggest a different posting style might bring about a greater and perhaps even original contribution to knowledge.
The questions being asked here are for the most part entirely reasonable. Some suggestions cannot and will not IMO ever be implemented (the graphical plotting one in particular - it cannot be done reliably automatically on the current data feed and who is going to pay someone to do it?) but others are perfectly fair game.
It's very obviously truly hard to bring about any change in this game. I once spoke (face to face) with the man who seemed to be CAA'd head of charting, and asked him why they don't a) produce their VFR charts in a freely downloadable form and b) produce their approach charts in a directly usable Jepp/Aerad-style A5 form. (To most experienced VFR/IFR pilots who actually live in the 20th, never mind the 21st century, these are really obvious things to implement; they would aid flight safety and there is no apparent overall cost). His reply was that they do not wish to compete with commercial data providers. That sort of reply is perhaps acceptable in the ivory tower these people live in but in the real world it is patent nonsense. But they really do believe they are doing The Right Thing. It's hard to see how anything can be changed - except through tiny increments and perhaps Mike Cross is after feedback of that sort.