It’s official – the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has decided to remove public access to the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF). For more information about what DAFIF is, why it’s important, and why it’s being taken away from us, see this page.
I don’t think my waypoint generators will die, but they sure won’t be as useful for people outside of the United States as their data gets staler and staler.
This is a sad day for me.
Paul, you’ve got a double “http://” in your link to the NGA article.
Thanks, Em. Fixed now.
Bad news about DAFIF, Paul, but thanks for your waypoint generator.
I just started using it as a backup GPS system with my Sony Clie Palm
and it’s really great to have for peace of mind. If I didn’t already have
a Lowrance Airmap, I wouldn’t hesitate to use the backup system as a
primary.