Does Jeppesen offer a discount for COPA members?
I just checked pricing on updating the NAV data in my SR20…
$465.00 per year for the GNS430’s
$129.00 for the programmer
$600.00 per year for the EX500C
Optional Flitestar planning software updates $239.00 per year.
It would be great if COPA could negotiate a deal with Jeppesen as many COPA members will be required to purchase these updates.
Wayne Harris - SR20 #993 - 8127B - Everything
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It would be great if COPA could negotiate a deal with Jeppesen as many COPA members will be required to purchase these updates.
Wayne,
I’ve taken two runs at this, both completely fruitless. Jepp has us over a barrel, and they know it (no competition), and anyway, at 1,000 members, we hardly register as a drop in their bucket.
We need competition here!
wayne - Im emailing you on this.
Perhaps a more fruitful avenue would be to find another data provider. Is there any company that could reformat the public domain chart information into formats acceptable to Garmin/Avidyne? A COPA-sponsored effort to do that might get Jepp’s attention.
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Is there any company that could reformat the public domain chart information into formats acceptable to Garmin/Avidyne? A COPA-sponsored effort to do that might get Jepp’s attention.
Curt,
I’ll contact you offline about this idea.
I already worked on that earlier in the year. I found that the garmin format was entirely proprietry, covered under a licensing agreement with Jepp and I could get no access to information about it at all.
Avidyne I don’t know about, never tried.
Seems that Jepp puts agreements in place with people they supply data for to lock themselves in as the only content provider.
I have some code to read and reformat the public data, I’ve been messing with it to make what I’ve been calling ‘platelets’, although I haven’t touched it for a while. If anyone finds a way to get garmin or avidyne formats and a way to program the cards, we can take a look.
The legality issues, I won’t even try to comment on, at this point it’s a project of interest only.
Roland
Mike,
Good luck! But having seen Jeppesen’s http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~airboy/images/jepp_logo_ani.movcaring attitude toward customers, I’m not optimistic.
Cheers,
Roger
Roland,
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Jepp puts agreements in place with people they supply data for to lock themselves in as the only content provider.
Oh - so they took microsloth lessons…[:(]
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The legality issues, I won’t even try to comment on, at this point it’s a project of interest only.
If you reverse-engineer the system / software, there is no legal issue. It has been done repeatedly. (EX: Intel vs. AMD for PC-type processors embedded firmware). Getting the information dataset approved by the FAA for IFR navigation is another issue…[:(]