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AvWeb interviewed Ross Neher from FlightPrep. At 5:02 they discuss the RunwayFinder suit:

http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast/AudioPodcast_FlightPrep...

As a student pilot, I hope this gets sorted out soon. RunwayFinder has the best VFR-sectional-over-Google-Maps interface of the available online tools. Skyvector.com is a close second, but they don't seamlessly stitch together charts (you must manually switch between them).

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From the interview:

- How can you patent something like online flight planning? [--] Were you just first ones to think of patenting it?

- According to the Patent Office, that is correct.

The interviewer tries to squeeze information out from the man, but he just talks his way around the actual question, saying things like IANAL, It's in the Patent, the Patent is very specific, that's what the Patent Office says.

I wish the interviewer wasn't so soft with him.

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