Agreed Dave. I wonder what, if anything, is stopping someone in the updaters team releasing an extract of their work?
What, and blow the best part of several months efforts?
We, as a team , have a pretty good, totally independant working routine to try and achieve what we set out to do.
To be fair, AirNav have left us alone to decide how and what we do. We disagree with each other, and regularly with AirNav, despite what a fair few people seem to think?
However, one thing we all have in common is a desire to try and make this work to the best of our ability.
I'm not going to debate if using a team of volunteers is the correct option, as it basically isn't - however it's where we are at the moment.
Unfortunately, we have lives outside of this task, so as I'm sure you'll all respect, we can only afford to give up the time we feel appropriate.
We're very lucky in that we have one member who almost operates 24-7 manning the "update request" thread.
The rest of us generally work away in the background, checking and improving etc, trawling production lists, other forums for info etc etc.
We're also aware of a "target" database that would be worth releasing, and at the moment, we're not there - or near for that matter - so maybe we need to gauge peoples opinions as to what is acceptable, before any new Navdata file is released?
We are also equally frustrated with some areas of our work not "getting through", and are currently banging on about this with AirNav. This is obviously the main point of contention with this thread. We've been in discussion with AirNav today, before this thread went this way, regarding this very issue, so believe me, our frustrations are just as, if not more fraught than others.
However, that said, we're not just going to suddenly throw our toys out of the pram and do what people seem to want us to do.
There's absolutely nothing stopping us "releasing an extract "of our work .We have the tools to do it, but why would we just throw it all up in the air in such a way.
Believe me (and I'm sure many won't!) , but we as a team are as near as damn it to a "user voice" to shout at AirNav on these things, and shout we certainly do!
Sometimes we feel frustrated, particularly as we have to come on here almost daily, answering on AirNav's behalf, primarily as we as a team know full well the issues of the way all this hangs (or not) together, only for no fixes or answers!
However - saying all this, we are not going to jeopardise what we are doing for the benefit of all users, just because a few people are voicing their frustrations! Everyone at the time had an equal opportunity to get involved - to be brutally honest, the silence was deafening!!
We will bat on regardless, and will bang on at AirNav regardless as well, for answers and solutions..........and I can see the responses now "but you're wasting your time" "you shouldn't be having to do this for AirNav" etc, etc, all stuff that's been heard a million times before.
I'll no doubt get slaughtered for this on here and elsewhere, but only thought it right that everyone knows where we're at.
If anyone wants to throw any questions our way, we'll do our best to honestly answer them, but please please respect what we're doing,and not compromise the position we are in. There's absolutely nothing to gain at all for anyone in that?
Thanks for reading
Regards
Rich