A glorious flight - Just add Music!

I wonder what's going to happen to XM after losing money in a big way for
so long? It was just in the papers that their upper management is
starting to flee the sinking ship, and taking pot shots over their
shoulders...?



Normal course of business. One guy has left. Profitability expected by
the end of this year.

I hope so. I'm anxiously waiting for XM weather to migrate to new
platforms, and that won't happen if XM goes belly up...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Maule Driver wrote:

Have to say that XM Sat beats it cold. Since installing my Garmin w/XM
Weather, the music from that is just great. Music, or talk, or
whatever. No decision about when to hook up or what playlist to have
loaded. Just turn on and choose from the many channels.... 70s is my
current thing.

Agreed. I am also flying with XM in the cockpit and took it on my
across-the-US- country trip last May. The music was invaluable in keeping
me focused and alert. Jazz is my current thing.

--
Peter

Jay Honeck wrote:


Normal course of business. One guy has left. Profitability expected by
the end of this year.


I hope so. I'm anxiously waiting for XM weather to migrate to new
platforms, and that won't happen if XM goes belly up...

As more and more ADS-B stations get installed XM will be hard pressed to
sell their weather package. I just saw in Controller magazine a box
that is out now that receives the transmissions for ADS-B and from mode
S transponders. It plugs in to your computer and shows you a radar
screen picture of the traffic near you.

"Newps" wrote in message
...


Jay Honeck wrote:


Normal course of business. One guy has left. Profitability expected by
the end of this year.


I hope so. I'm anxiously waiting for XM weather to migrate to new
platforms, and that won't happen if XM goes belly up...

As more and more ADS-B stations get installed XM will be hard pressed to
sell their weather package. I just saw in Controller magazine a box that
is out now that receives the transmissions for ADS-B and from mode S
transponders. It plugs in to your computer and shows you a radar screen
picture of the traffic near you.

How would that effect their sales of airborne weather (strategic)?

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

My understanding is that the weather options for ADS-B will be limited
to text METARs and TAFs - of course I could be wrong. But, if I'm
correct there will be a market for more advanced solutions offered by
XM & Sirius/WSI. Additionally, no one knows when the government will
actually get around to providing nationwide coverage and there'e the
pesky cost of ADS-B receivers.

Mike

Matt Barrow wrote:


As more and more ADS-B stations get installed XM will be hard pressed to
sell their weather package. I just saw in Controller magazine a box that
is out now that receives the transmissions for ADS-B and from mode S
transponders. It plugs in to your computer and shows you a radar screen
picture of the traffic near you.


How would that effect their sales of airborne weather (strategic)?

You'll get the same thing for free.

cwby-flyer wrote:

My understanding is that the weather options for ADS-B will be limited
to text METARs and TAFs - of course I could be wrong. But, if I'm
correct there will be a market for more advanced solutions offered by
XM & Sirius/WSI. Additionally, no one knows when the government will
actually get around to providing nationwide coverage and there'e the
pesky cost of ADS-B receivers.

The service will be substantially the same as XM. As for the receivers
the one I mentioned earlier was on sale for less than a thousand bucks.
That could be interfaced to any GPS or PDA or other computer.

Newps wrote:

As more and more ADS-B stations get installed XM will be hard pressed to
sell their weather package. I just saw in Controller magazine a box that
is out now that receives the transmissions for ADS-B and from mode S
transponders. It plugs in to your computer and shows you a radar screen
picture of the traffic near you.

How would that effect their sales of airborne weather (strategic)?

You'll get the same thing for free.

/Aviation Consumer/ and /IFR Magazine/ both project that ADS-B is still a
few to five years away from complete US mainland coverage.


--
Peter

Peter R. wrote:

You'll get the same thing for free.


/Aviation Consumer/ and /IFR Magazine/ both project that ADS-B is still a
few to five years away from complete US mainland coverage.

I understand that but when it's working effectively the market for XM
will shrink to near nothing.

Newps wrote:

Peter R. wrote:

You'll get the same thing for free.

/Aviation Consumer/ and /IFR Magazine/ both project that ADS-B is still a
few to five years away from complete US mainland coverage.

I understand that but when it's working effectively the market for XM
will shrink to near nothing.

Not if the market is filled with knucklehead, early adopters (this is
purely a slam on me - but that's another story) like me who prefer to pay
for the "bird in the hand" and have onboard NEXRad now rather than wait for
the "two in the bush" at some unknown point in the distant future.

/Aviation Consumer/ also mentioned that they have little confidence in a
complete mainland ADS-B network ever happening, given the FAA funding
issues and fiasco with TIS/Mode-S.

--
Peter