Not sure how long it has been available but Verizon offers pilot weather
as part of their Get It Now service. You can get Metars, TAF's, radar
pictures and loops, radar loops for a user defined route. The radar
pictures are good enough for VFR flight, you make the call for IFR
flight. Takes about 30 seconds to download a radar loop. I just started
the service, it is $10 per month for unlimited usage. There are three
other weather services available that also offer satellite pictures as
well as radar pictures for less money but they do not have TAF's and Metars.

lance smith wrote:

I always use DUATS for my xc flights. It's free, on the web, and it
does everything I need. For short local flights I use NOAA's aviation
weather and the DOD NOTAM website.

-lance smith

Sridhar Rajagopal wrote in message ...

Hi,

I was wondering about the following:

1) how many people actually use any kind of flight planning software
(VFR and IFR)?
2) If you do use it, which one do you use?
3) how would you rate it?

Thanks!
Sridhar