Jay,

I just recently acquired a 396 and am in the process of learning all I can
about it. In the process, one of my Google Newsgroup searches pointed me to
the tread earlier this month where you posted a concern about age of METAR
data. There was a lot of interesting data in the responses you received,
including the critical fact that the METAR data itself is not a real time of
the underlying ASOS/AWOS data.

However, one interesting piece of information was not included in any of the
responses (or maybe I missed it). In the WX tab, in the Information sub-tab
is a list of all the Weather Products, each with the age(in minutes) of the
most recent download. That information would have verified the age of the
METAR download, but not the age of the underlying data.

This data would have helped pin-point the problem (396, XM Weather, or
underlying METAR data). Not sure this would have addressed your concern,
but it is one more data point.

Radu