"Denny" wrote:

I'm flying with the 196 and 296 on the yokes... I can afford a 396 but
haven't decided that I need inflight weather...

If you flew back and forth between Mobile and Houston very much, you'd
already have decided.

These are typical days from mid-May to mid-September:

http://tinyurl.com/zmxej (Pardon the crappy resolution allowed on the
Bellsouth servers.)

Before I had XM WX, it was impossible to plan summer trips with any degree
of confidence, and often nerve-wracking to fly them.

Now? The boomers aren't nearly as scary when I know exactly what they're up
to.

I ain't sayin' I'll go *every* time, but I've postponed only one flight, and
landed short and waited only once in the two years I've had NEXRAD aboard.
Used to happen all the time.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM