News/Analysis By ANN Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell (Still Alive
and Kicking)
On the cusp of FlightPrep's first major public event after
taking a cyber-drubbing from the GA community over their ham-fisted
attempts to profit off a recent and oft-questioned patent approval,
things seemed to have changed again. What was expected to be a
confrontational scenario (with GA community threats of boycott
related activity to be held at the Lakeland Fly-In), now seems
mysteriously quiet. At the center of the an online storm that
erupted late last year when FlightPrep attempted to seek financial
consideration from a number of online flight planning utility sites
for 'infringement' of their IP, FlightPrep was excoriated by
thousands of flyers and GA advocates over what was termed to be
heavy