The Aerotech Flight Planner project was completed in late 1990 and
my subscriptions to the data used for this project ran out in early
1991.  So the data contained in this package is out of date. 
Although a good deal of the data may still be suitable for navigation,
I would check it out carefully before you trust it, especially if
you're flying IFR.

The reason the data is not up to date is that I could not afford to
renew subscriptions to NOAA for the digital data.  I had hoped I could
sell the flight planner and start an ongoing business but I only sold
four packages at $50 apiece.  I subscribed to the digital navaid data
and the digital aeronautical chart supplement which contained the
airway and waypoint data.  The cost of these two subscriptions was about
$600 per year.  I also purchased two nine track tapes directly from the
FAA.  One was the landing facilities tape which contained most airport
data.  The other was called the Tower tape which contained all the
frequencies used by the various airports and approach controls.  The
cost of these tapes was $72 which I bought twice during the year of
this project.  So the cost of data alone was about $750 dollars a year
to keep my data up to date.

If you like this flight planning package and would like to have up to date
data, drop me a line and let me know.  What I am looking for is twenty
people who will commit to spend $50 to get updated data.  This would allow
me purchase the subscriptions and the tapes and mail each person 4 updates
during that year.

Here's how I would envision this plan working.  If you are interested, drop
me a line or phone.  Send no money.  Once I get twenty people to commit, I
will contact everyone and let them know that I have a minimum commitment
and will ask for money to start the subscriptions and purchase the tapes.
It will probably take a month to actually get the product out the door
once the process is started.  If I can get forty people to commit, I can
drop the price to $35 per year.  This means that if you are one of the
original twenty and have sent me $50, I will refund $15 to each one of
you.

If you're a pilot, I think you'll like this package a lot and the price
even more.  Most commercial packages are close to $200 a year for the
package and updates.

Please let me here from you if you're interested.

Bill Adams
5 S. 775 Malibu Lane
Naperville, IL 60540-3766
708-420-2940 (H)
708-393-5513 (W)

P.S.
Disregard the installation instructions in afp.txt.  If you have
downloaded this package from a BBS you need only to unzip the
files and start running the programs.  The rejoin program is not
required.
