"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

In this example, one slip might have cost me several times the cost of
the Garmin unit. Can you grasp the differences here?



Our "non-essential" XM weather made what could have been a way to exciting
flight rather comfortable and it's no less important for pleasure flying.
Without it our Sunday flight home might not have happened and that doesn't
sit too well with the office "Sorry, weather isn't good, I won't be in for
a few days".

Quite so. In your case, you take a sick day or a vacation day.

Not quite so easy when that's not an option.

Take a gander at any issue of "Professional Pilot" magazine and notice how
much the big boys speak to "Situational Awareness". Probably even more so
than handling emergencies, which they typically do endlessly in the
simulators. Their safety record is, what?, six or seven times the " $1000
Hamburger" (adjusted for current 100LL prices) crowd?

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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)