Plans to offer international databases are currently on hold. The National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency (NGA) plans to stop distributing a data feed (the DAFIF) that contains data that CoPilotSoft, like most other navigation software providers, relies on to create their international databases.

Some countries (Australia, in this case) have turned their charting operations over to commercial companies, who are in turn asserting their copyright ownership of parts of the data that is included in the DAFIF. These companies don't want competition from lower cost solution providers using the DAFIF.

The NGA, afraid of losing access to the data in question and not wanting to get mired in the copyright disputes, canceled the entire DAFIF data product effective October 1, 2006. We think it is a rather drastic solution to a small problem, and it has a significant impact on general aviation since most planning sites and navigation products use this data.

Existing customers are unaffected, as their are suitable alternatives for the USA data the DAFIF contained.