"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:l0hIj.100539$yE1.18097@attbi_s21:

Before XM weather and the kind, you had to tediously
transcribe information from airborne FSS weather breifings, HIWAS,
etc. onto a map or your head or whatever to determine where adverse
weather was. Now all the busy work is removed, so all you have to do
is look at the screen and it's all there. The flying is all the same.
Your weather avoidance piloting techniques are exactly the same. It's
just that information you use comes to you more efficiently.

It is that, and more.

When you can see the weather actually developing and changing ahead on
your route of flight, in nearly real-time, your understanding of the
weather is increased a hundred-fold over what is possible with a
pre-flight weather briefing.

Your undrstanding of weather is near zilch.

Before, we had to "paint the picture" in our heads, based on old,
static, possibly hours-old information -- and HOPE that it hadn't
changed from predicted.

Now, we know. It's that easy.

No it isn't, fjukkwit.


Bertie