Mxsmanic wrote:
FlyCherokee writes:

I wonder about the same thing with XM in-plane weather (apparently)
showing thunderstorm location in great detail. I could see some
pilots being drawn in too close, based on the data shown on their
screens, and then finding out too late that they are in the bad stuff.

I've read a number of articles that are critical of XM weather for this
reason. I don't know much about XM weather, but from what I understand of it,
I certainly wouldn't rely on it if I were a pilot. It sounds like a
convenience rather than a reliable safety-of-life system.

It is well known that XM weather is not real time.

No one with any sense uses XM for anything other than general information as
in there is heavy weather to the north.

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

Then again, there are a lot of things that I wouldn't rely on as a pilot that
other pilots seem to take as gospel. Some of the behaviors I see described by
pilots or even illustrated by them on YouTube worry me, assuming that these
people really are licensed pilots.

This is nothing more than your usual gratuitous shot at real pilots.


--
Jim Pennino

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