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German VFR AIP becoming free of charge (starting from 01.2023)


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From the 1st of January 2023, the German VFR AIP will become free of charge. (Source) Since Skydemon continues to sell the subscription for one year, how will this affect if I would extend my subscription? Do customers with a DFS subscription get a refund for the remaining days after begin 2023, or does Skydemon continue selling the DFS VFR charts as a premium add-on?


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Tim Dawson - 8/5/2022 9:40:51 AM
Only a basic version of the VFR AIP will be free of charge. It will not contain all the features of the premium VFR AIP that exists today and that we sell licenses for. That is what I have been told by its publishers. Unfortunately nobody knows anything more at this stage, because the details of exactly what will be free and what will not, have not been worked out.

Therefore, there is no current change to what we can license, which is a year's provision of the AIP VFR.

My personal speculation is that the textual parts will become free but the charts will not.

IFR charts are available in the German AIP website and have been since 2020 —> https://aip.dfs.de/basicifr
I appreciate the amount of work that goes into getting these charts into SD, but charging full price from 2023 for a free product seems extreme.

As someone whose subscription is soon to end, clarification would be welcome, as I also subscribe to EasyVFR in order to get chart data into my Dynon HDX

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Isn’t this thread about the VFR charts, which currently have to be paid for however you source them through?
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