Not that I mind Europe wasting their own money for a change. If Europe doesn't want to be dependent on us big, bad Americans for navigation data, it'd be a lot more cost effective to help the Russians build the full Glonass constellation. They could do that for a fraction of the cost of building Galileo.

To be honest, as long as Galileo doesn't interfere with GPS then I don't care one way or the other. I already have 3 GPS receivers (a cheap Garmin II+ that I velcro on top of the panel to act as a cheap HUD, a Lowrance Airmap 100 with a nice aviation and geographic database, and a panel mount Garmin GNC-300XL) so I won't be bothering to get a Galileo compatible one. The next time I get a GPS receiver, it'll be WAAS compatible. That won't happen until WAAS is approved by the FAA for precision instrument approaches. The GNC-300XL is approved for non-precision (no glide slope info) instrument approaches so it'll do for a while.