It absolutely breaks my heart that I'm going to have to cough up $2500 plus
big bucks for monthly weather service when I had almost the same
functionality with my 295 and Palm Pilot running Cheap *******s weather. In
flight weather, email and automatic aircraft position reporting on the net.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Wizard of Draws" wrote:

So I am looking at the Lowrance Airmap 1000 ... Does
anyone have a good reason *not* to buy one?

It doesn't do weather.

It's a new world for portable GPS since Garmin released the 396. If you
can't bring yourself to part with $2,500 now, just wait awhile: Lowrance
probably has a wx-capable unit in the works that will put some price
pressure on Garmin.

Flying xcountry down South without satellite wx is unthinkable for me now
that I've seen how much utility it adds to the airplane. IMO, you should
plan on getting a portable that will give you this wonderful capability.
I would not buy a new unit that won't show you where the boomers are; you
can always get a nice used unit if you want to wait for prices to come
down.

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Dan
C-172RG at BFM