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Hi Fellow Forumites,
The following question was posted on the forum regarding 'Licence Expiry and future Prices'
http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,59.0.htmlThis is an absolutely fair and valid question, and thought I should answer to all members.
I have been explaining my options at the LAA rally, and in various emails/postings, so here are my thoughts
in a bit more detail.
I am looking at a future subscription model, to continue funding the project, and hopefully recover some of the
large investment made to date.
I am not looking to make huge gains on this, this was never the intention of the project.
My current thoughts for pricing once the Beta Period has hopefully proved to be successful are as follows
£14.99 First year
£11.99 Subsequent years & for existing Beta Users
I hope you agree that this is a reasonable amount based upon the low barrier to entry for the hardware costs.
I calculated if you were to buy a F***M system, this would provide nearly 200 years of license subscription,
So when put like that I think it sounds quite reasonable
There is lots of parallel work going on at the moment which has not yet been disclosed to the forum including
a drone project, a tracking system, and extensive work on providing a plug and play kit to overcome the construction
issues which many prospective users are clearly daunted by.
I am sure that those of you who have built your own PilotAware know this only too well, as I would wager you
have had many requests to build more PilotAware units from your friends and fellow aviators.
I sincerely hope everybody agrees this to be reasonable, I have spent over two years on this project and would
hope that nobody feels agrieved by my intentions.
My main concern is to make the project successful by achieving widespread adoption, and hopefully give us all a
better margin of safety when flying. I do not want to dissuade any potential users over unreasonable costs, this
would clearly negate the primary goal of the project.
Thx
Lee