runway finder back online

[N546RV]

I'm glad RF is back up, but I'm not glad that he apparently accepted FlightPrep's "free license" offer.

[spmcnjim]

caused the settlement. Or maybe not; I'm just speculating. Although I am a transactional patent attorney (and former litigator).

[Flying Scotsman]

Originally Posted by Sig600

Happy to see this, however whats done is done and I'll maintain my position of never supporting ASA or flightprep.

Concur.

So if anyone from this predatory company is reading this...don't think we've forgotten your actions!

[Bevan]

I agree. It's still bullying in my books. I will not buy any FP products, or anything else the owners try to sell.

Bevan

[Snowflake]

So all of you who will continue to boycott FlightPrep... Will you be using RunwayFinder now that it's back? Just wondering, because RF is now a FP "affiliated" product.

[BrentHumphreys]

I am a little conflicted on that. I contributed to the legal defense fund on the premise that they were going to fight the patent. As you will recall FP offered a license free of charge at the beginning of this whole ordeal.

One thing is for sure. I will continue to work against FlightPrep until they change their approach to this.

I can't know what went on behind closed doors between RF and FP, and I don't question RF's right to make decisions to their best benefit. I contributed to the legal fund so that FlightPrep would be stopped early. That didn't happen, and it feels like RF licensing from FP only serves to strengthen the FP claims.

[rv7boy]

I really missed RunwayFinder while Dave had it offline. Now it's back up but it doesn't seem the same. I realize the charts are not up-to-date and he needs some time to update them. That's on the PC. Route drawing and adding waypoints seem the same.

On the iPhone, RunwayFinder is "maps only" at this point. There is no window to insert origin and destination, so it is not very useful. In addition, from the Pilots'nPaws website, we used to be able to click on the "Use RunwayFinder to Map this Route" and it would automatically draw the map between origin and destination when RunwayFinder opened. Ain't happening now.

Just wondering if anyone else is noticing this...???

[the_other_dougreeves]

Originally Posted by jtrollin

This will just continue to legitimize a poorly awarded patent instead of invalidating the patent all together. While I am happy for the users of runwayfinder, I am saddened that the patent still lives.

I agree. Don't feed the (patent) trolls.

TODR

[Kenny Gene]

I'm another pilot that is GREATFUL RunwayFinder is back on line!!

Thanks.

Kenny Gene
RV7a 630 hrs
RV10 45 hrs

[AltonD]

For what its worth, I walked past the Flightprep booth at Sun N Fun. Not a single person was talking to them. I also saw another vendor with a simillar name. They had a sign " We are not associated with the patent case issue" hanging on their display.