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![]() "JB" wrote in message oups.com... snip Danny, Not sure where you live or how often you fly x-country, but if its often and someplace where you don't have severe clear 365 days/yr, you oughta find a way to put XM Wx in your plane. A Garmin 396 or 496 is often the cheapest way to go. Others may have their preferred hardware solutions. The situational awareness and near real-time weather is worth its weight in gold. NEXRAD, visual projection of winds, AWOS and TAFs across the country, airmet and sigments....its great. Knowing EXACTLY where the t-storms are and whether the clouds I'm in are just clouds or something worse is fantastic. After having it for 18 months, I wonder how I survived in the east coast soup for all of these years without it. Even better than sliced bread. And no....I don't work for Garmin or XM. --Jeff I plan to go cross country a lot in an older Taylorcraft that has no electrical system and radio. I have not flown in a while, but it sounds like for a couple of grand and $29.99/month I can put what is equivalent to what used to be INS and weather radar in my little putt-putt airplane. No. It is even better. The display has a lot more that just an INS and weather radar. I get terrain avoidance, actual weather, etc. Danny Deger |
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