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Judah wrote:

Hi Roy,
I seem to recall the CNX-80 Tutorial talks about it being used for
weather avoidance during IFR enroute flight. I guess their thought is
that you can use it to request a diversion around weather, eg: a 5-mile
diversion to the left. Then you can program it into the CNX-80 and stay
parallel to your track.

As you know, I don't have a whole lot of IFR experience - I had thought
that you typically tell ATC about your diversions for weather in degrees
and time (5 degrees left for about 5 min), so it very well may be one of
those "sex-sells" types of features. But I thought I'd share with you
what I read on the tutorial...

Hi Judah!

What you said sounds reasonable. Whenever I've wanted to alter course
for weather, I have indeed made my request/report in terms of heading,
but that's mostly because that's what's been the most convenient in the
pre-GPS days (if the only tool you've got is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail). I suppose now that I've got the tool, "I'd like to offset
5 miles left of course for weather" might work just as well.