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Ahh...but government publications, online or web, are public domain and
can thus be duplicated with impunity. Its not like theyre stealing
anything and its really no different than some TV station calling
something the "Joe Blow" forecast when they got the info form the NWS.

I see no difference...Pete

In article <39a42ad8$1@cs.colorado.edu>, waltsb@pobox.com (Brandon
Walts) wrote:

> In article ,
> Kelly Bakst wrote:
> >Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with this site, but I REALLY
> >wish I were.
> >
> >Its http://www.aeroplanner.com - by far the best aviation site Ive
> >seen.
> >Sectionals for the whole country, flight planning, weather, online
> >logbook,
> >links, discussion areas, calculators - you name it. The only thing I
> >use
> >another site for is for filing flight plans, and they plan to have that
> >soon. Even approach plates are coming!
>
> Yeah - theres a lot of cool stuff on there - especially the flight
> planner and sectionals.
>
> I do have a fairly major gripe with them, though, in that there
> are some places where they pass off other peoples work as their
> own; for example some of the weather maps are advertised as
> "our current convective watches page" (or "our [whatever] page")
> but its copied verbatim off of some of the National Weather Service
> sites.
>
> -B "Sucker for free maps" W
>

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