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Old February 10th 05, 04:19 PM
Fred Wolf
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Isn't there too much clutter and wires hanging all over in the cockpit...
where do you mount the tablet/ display

fred
"John W. Galvin" wrote in message
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"Nathan Young" wrote in message
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XM Weather is great. I use a portable version in my Cherokee.

Cost: $2000 tablet PC (which obviously has uses outside the aircraft)
WxWorx portable receiver: ~$800
Monthly svc fee $50

-Nathan


We have XM Weather on a Tablet PC similar to that mentioned above in our
SR22. Extremely worthwhile for an IFR pilot. Also use JeppView FliteDeck
for approach charts. Personally, I would be hard put to justify the
$7,500
Cirrus XM Weather Option and/or the $3,600 Cirrus CMAX Approach Plates
Option and/or the $11,500 Cirrus Terrain Awareness Option when the same or
_better_ functionality can be had with a Tablet PC based option (WxWorx XM
Weather, Jeppesen JeppView FliteDeck, and PCAvionics MountainScope) for
_far_less money.

--Galvin




 




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