"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"

Dan Luke wrote:

Ouch. This is bad for all of us, as there is virtually no competition for
WxWorx/Garmin.

So true. Last week I was talking to my avionics tech about the MX20/WSI
issues and he informed me that the MX20 (multifunction display) replacement
just released from Garmin will not even display WSI weather in any form.
This new display is only compatible with Garmin's XM receiver.


--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote in message
...
Dan Luke wrote:

Ouch. This is bad for all of us, as there is virtually no competition
for
WxWorx/Garmin.

So true. Last week I was talking to my avionics tech about the MX20/WSI
issues and he informed me that the MX20 (multifunction display)
replacement
just released from Garmin will not even display WSI weather in any form.
This new display is only compatible with Garmin's XM receiver.


http://www.avidyne.com/products/ex500.shtm (Even better with a two channel
data link)

http://www.avidyne.com/products/ex500_comparison.shtm (Compared to MX-20)

http://www.avidyne.com/products/ex500_freexm_rev00.pdf (XM link promo)


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

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Peter R." wrote:

Dan Luke wrote:

WxWorx.

Red precip without lightning:
http://www.seaerospace.com/garmin/396pic2.jpg

Red precip with lightning: http://www.seaerospace.com/garmin/396pic8.jpg

Nice.

WSI downlinked weather displayed on a Garmin MX20 moving map: Will never
display the lightning data now offered by WSI, thanks to the feud between
these two companies.

Ouch. This is bad for all of us, as there is virtually no competition for
WxWorx/Garmin.

XM/AviDyne


Matt

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"I had one fundamental question about
economics: Why are some places prosperous
and thriving while others just suck? It's not
a matter of brains. No part of the earth (with
the possible exception of Brentwood) is dumber
than Beverly Hills, and the residents are wading
in gravy. Meanwhile in Russia, where chess is
a spectator sport, they're boiling stones for soup.
" -- P.J. O'Rourke in Eat the Rich

"Matt Barrow" wrote:


WSI downlinked weather displayed on a Garmin MX20 moving map: Will never
display the lightning data now offered by WSI, thanks to the feud between
these two companies.

Ouch. This is bad for all of us, as there is virtually no competition for
WxWorx/Garmin.

XM/AviDyne

As I said: virtually no competition.

Avidyne has no line of NAV/COM/GPS boxes, nor does it make portables.
Avidyne, it seems to me, also lags Garmin's technology in PFDs and
MFDs--Garmin now has an integrated autopilot. Cessna, Mooney and Raytheon
all chose Garmin over Avidyne. It is ominous for Avidyne that Columbia
Aircraft now offers Garmin as an option.

Garmin is just flat beating the crap out of its competitors in all GA
segments, gobbling up market share and setting prices levels. This is as it
should be, of course, but its disappointing (and costly) to us consumers that
B/K, Lowrance, Avidyne, etc. seem unable to catch up.

As for WSI, they are getting beaten in the marketplace too by WxWorx, which
made the key alliances while WSI slept.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM