Originally Posted by
bushy
There are thousands of places that need GPS approaches. Are we going to have to buy them? Where is this heading, and where will it end? Is this another case of a monopoly selling mandatory items?
If this continues, I see many "home made" approaches in the future.
I'm with you bushy!
Seems a bit daft that the waypoints are available (on my GPSMAP296 database anyway), its only a short step to a homemade approach.
There should be a general good here. Whats the value in keeping a surveyed approach secret? If the Feds are not going to fund the Appr then a private mob should only be able to have one officially accepted if it is made public.
Its not as though Qld Emergency Services are in commercial competition with anyone and the public purse will cough up a lot more than the cost of surveying the Appr if they have to go looking for me in the scrub when I smack in while trying to grope my way into YATN.
R