"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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SNIP


As long as someone is still actually flying the plane. A beautiful
digital display of weather 300 nm ahead doesn't help if it distracts
you from the mountainside looming just ahead through the cockpit
window.


If you're flying something that requires you to be concerned (near term)
with Wx that is 300nm ahead...and you are low enough to hit something that
is part of Earth...you've got larger issues to deal with than how you are
communicating.

;O)

Jay B