On Feb 21, 12:24 pm, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
Danny Deger wrote:
"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What'll it do to satellite NEXRAD services?

Can someone explain what this is? Is this a service that sends
current radar information to a plane while in flight? I googled for
information, but did find any. What is the monthly fee for this
service, and is there a portable/battery operated "box" that combines
GPS position with the radar image?

Danny Deger

Here's a portablehttp://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap496/

And while there is probabaly a link in there somewhere to the serveice cost.
Here's one from XM.

http://www.xmradio.com/weather/av_service_pricing.xmc

and while I looked that up I found this for hardware other than the Garmin
mentioned above.

http://www.xmradio.com/weather/hardw...lutions_av.xmc

Danny,

Not sure where you live or how often you fly x-country, but if its
often and someplace where you don't have severe clear 365 days/yr, you
oughta find a way to put XM Wx in your plane. A Garmin 396 or 496 is
often the cheapest way to go. Others may have their preferred
hardware solutions. The situational awareness and near real-time
weather is worth its weight in gold. NEXRAD, visual projection of
winds, AWOS and TAFs across the country, airmet and sigments....its
great. Knowing EXACTLY where the t-storms are and whether the clouds
I'm in are just clouds or something worse is fantastic. After having
it for 18 months, I wonder how I survived in the east coast soup for
all of these years without it. Even better than sliced bread.

And no....I don't work for Garmin or XM.

--Jeff