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I hope they ship. I ordered the entire bundle (receiver, cables,
antenna, and an AC adapter for home use) and I think it was $850. They told me they would start shipping on 8/15. I hope that is the case! I am also planing on using a tablet PC with WxWorx and JeppView for approach plates... Lenny Sawyer Richard Kaplan wrote: "Mark T. Mueller" wrote in message ... Any idea when the WxWorx boxes will be available? I am ready now! Supposedly they will ship 8/15... I have a demo unit I used at my Forums talk at Oshkosh, so I can tell you it does indeed exist. I hope they work them out in short order. I would use it just about anytime. Agreed... the main engineering obstacle ("they will never do it" kind of thing) was getting a portable antenna for a geosynchronos satellite.. .since they have done that, I would hope a Nexrad receiver could achieve the form factor of a portable GPS. Even better... why not a GPS/Nexrad portable combo? That would seem currently technologically possible. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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There are orders of magnitude more personal boats cruising the world than GA
planes, and a significant percentage of those boats have at least one GPS... They are the driving force behind the moving map stuff... The millions of campers, hikers, etc., buy tens of thousands of the under $300 handhelds, and they are the financial base upon which the GPS moving map industry sits, currently... Us high end Moving Map / IFR Approach / WAAS airplane guys are the tip of the commercial GPS iceberg... Denny |
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--"gwengler" wrote in message
om... I am just repeating from what I read in the FLYING Magazine (Richard Collins). He said basically that datalink capability in the airplane ON THE GROUND is pretty much irrelevant since you get all the weather you want 2 minutes before engine start in the FBO or on your internet laptop. Makes sence to me... That plan does not work if you are departing from a small airport without a weather computer. That plan also does not consider that many airports do not pay for the 5-minute WSI weather feed and instead have 20-30 minute old weather in their flight planning room. Assume the FBO weather is 20 minutes old and it takes 10 minutes to startup and another 10 minutes to taxi and another 10 minutes to receive in-flight Bendix/King weather and all of a sudden the pilot is working with almost 1-hour-old weather data and maybe now has to call ATC to ask for a weather deviation. Imagine how much easier it is to get 5-minute-old weather data anytime during taxi and climb out. Also that plan ignores the time at low altitude when the weather data is unavailable; in some regions of the country the Bendix/King system is unavailable below 5,000 feet, and lots of IFR planes spend considerable time below 5,000 feet when weather decisions are important. Perhaps most important of all, the unavailability of the data on the ground means the pilot loses the ability to use the weather datalink system as a ground-based learning tool to correlate the picture out the window with the weather depiction by that particular digital signal processing system. Richard Kaplan, CFII www.flyimc.com |
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Don't forget a lot of cell phones now have a GPS chip in them to meet E911
requirements. There are tons more cell phones than boaters and campers. "Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ... There are orders of magnitude more personal boats cruising the world than GA planes, and a significant percentage of those boats have at least one GPS... They are the driving force behind the moving map stuff... The millions of campers, hikers, etc., buy tens of thousands of the under $300 handhelds, and they are the financial base upon which the GPS moving map industry sits, currently... Us high end Moving Map / IFR Approach / WAAS airplane guys are the tip of the commercial GPS iceberg... Denny |
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He said basically that datalink capability in the airplane
ON THE GROUND is pretty much irrelevant Not if your cruise altitude is below the minimum reception altitude for your area... which is never the case with a satellite based system. Paul |
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