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11/20/2011 8:30 PM
 

News stories are freely available information, published for public use. However, try copying the Washington Post onto your own webserver and allowing free access to it, and see how legal that turns out to be.

While their website is ambiguous (I don't see a "terms of use" page anywhere), I seriously doubt that airnav.com would take kindly to AdventurePilot crawling their site to mine fuel pricing data wihtout any compensation. AirNav makes money by selling ads on its website. People will only buy ads if folks are visiting the website. One way Airnav gets people to visit is via the AirBoss program, which encourages operators to use the Airnav.com site to check for fuel prices. FBOs have agreements with airnav.com to communicate their fuel prices to airnav and to honor the prices posted there.

That is effort that airnav.com is expending to gather fuel pricing data, and it's a part of their business model.

To go pilfer that data for your own business could be considered stealing.

As far as I know, there is no "free, publicly available" database of avgas fuel prices. The FAA doesn't collect that data and make it freely availalbe. Anyone else who collects it is expending effort to do so and creating a product that has value, and they deserve to be compensated for it.

 
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11/20/2011 8:41 PM
 

Look up "fair use" and you'll see that your wa-po example isn't so cut and dried. I agree that AirNav owns the information, but as long as you don't SELL the data, I don't see how they can fault your for packaging it some other way, particularly in the absence of any lisence agreement on their website (I looked, too). Regardless, it's not worth getting bent out of shape about, my point was that the data is out there and it may be possible to get ahold of it. I'll just use my phone to acess airnav.

 
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11/20/2011 8:45 PM
 
chuck wrote:

...my point was that the data is out there and it may be possible to get ahold of it.

Yes, and as indicated by Walter's 9/6 post (the first reply to the OP), he already knows that.

 
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11/21/2011 11:54 AM
 

We contacted AirNav a while back, they are opening to selling us the data but it's expensive. It's copyrighted data, so we cannot redisplay it without permission. I doubt many folks would be willing to pay $50-$100 per year for this capability on the iFly - especially since it's free on the internet. But we're continuing to keep our eyes and ears open for a viable option.

-Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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11/21/2011 9:49 PM
 
Agree with Walter....I wouldn't want increased subscription costs for this feature. Would have this covered during my flight planning.

Dave

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