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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
"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 |
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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
"Sam Spade" wrote: There is a real chance consumers will react to both with a big yawn. Home videotape recording was a revolutionary product that everyone wanted. On the other hand, the new DVD formats offer so small an increment in display quality over a good 480-P player on an HDTV screen, I think few people will care enough to upgrade. At least they can afford to wait and see which new format survives. Once you see a Hi Def DVD properly connected to a compliant HDV set, you won't consider the difference between that and up-converted 480P, to be a "yawn." I have seen it. It looks great to me: I want one. But it's not so sensational that everyone will want it, as they did with home video recorder/players. My daughter, a typical low-tech consumer, said she didn't see what the big deal was. I'll bet you that consumers will sit on the fence long enough waiting for prices to come down that either Blu-Ray or HD DVD will die quickly; maybe they'll even wait long enough that both will flop. -- Dan C-172RG at BFM |
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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
"Peter R." wrote in message ... Matt Barrow wrote: That's their partner. What's the fascination with WSI? Or is it something you dislike about XM? My fascination with WSI is tied to the fact that I am already a WSI customer. My preference is to maximize the 5.0 AMU expenditure spent purchasing and installing the WSI downlink weather receiver two years ago (back when Garmin and WSI were partners of sorts, too). Believe me, the thought has crossed my mind several times in ripping the damn unit out and selling it on eBay, then purchasing the Garmin XM receiver, but given that WSI is about to change to Sirius satellite delivery, I am going to wait until the dust settles after the now free WSI receiver swap later this year. Well, can you use the L-3 iLink? |
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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
Whether these particular returns contained destructive turbulence or not
was not something I wanted to test. Actually, it's not something you EVER want to test. I inadvertently penetrated a Level 3 once, and would not willingly do so again. My point is that if you have reliable static discharge data, it's not something you're testing. You can't have strong convection with water droplets without having static discharges. It's just not possible. If the water is there and the static discharges are not, then there's no convection and penetration is safe. It's just that simple. My trip wasn't exactly critical either, and I could have deviated an extra 30 miles and been outside the convective SIGMET. But what's the point? Deviating around stratiform cloud with rain? Now without 'sferics, I would certainly have deviated. Or maybe not, if I had live lightning data piped into my cockpit. Additionally, my point in starting this thread was to question whether it is really the FSS specialist's job to imply that I am being too conservative when asking about the colorful radar returns? I made no comment on that part of your post. I think you made your point, it's been discussed, and I have nothing to add to it. No, of course it's not appropriate - but then you get what you pay for. Pesonally I prefer a self-briefing with DUATS. Michael |
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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
Dan Luke wrote:
"Sam Spade" wrote: I'll bet you that consumers will sit on the fence long enough waiting for prices to come down that either Blu-Ray or HD DVD will die quickly; maybe they'll even wait long enough that both will flop. There is an awesome amount of industry power behind both formats. It's like the bullies on the 4th grade playground splitting and fighting each other instead of the little kids us ;- There is no difference in quality, unlike Betamax and VHS. So, whichever one wins will make no difference in that respect. The big players are being complete fools by not having adopted standards. Then again, they probably wouldn't have adopted the ATSC standards had not the over-the-air regulators (such as the FCC) forced them to do it. As it was, they kicked and screamed long enough that digital HiDef overtook analog HiDef (for the unending benefit of all of us). Similar issues are at play with RNAV avionics and MFDs. Unlike VOR and ILS, which had (and have) an over-the-air component, only the aviation regulators are involved. And, being high-tech stuff, the aviation cert folks cannot comprehend it all. |
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"Are you worried about all those non-green colors on the radar?"
"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "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. Think that's bad...I have a King KLN-94 POS, but at least I have it linked with an AviDyne 500. |
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