Chuckle

I've only had one glider flight east of the Mississippi (at Harris
Hill), but I am familiar with crappy visibility and I don't have an ILS
in my glider. =-O But, where I fly, I can see much further than a final
glide will get me which is why I don't see the value in having satellite
radar in the cockpit.

The blipmap suggestion is intriguing if you can get it from the macro to
the micro scale. Admittedly, I haven't used it but, the looks I've
taken appear to be quite general when zoomed down to the 5-10 or even 20
mile radius that I think might be of interest. Again, where I fly, a
simple look at the sky for clouds or the ground for thermal generators
seems to be of more use. I'm talking fun flying, not hard driving
contest flying.

But this is once again getting away from the original topic. We're
going to take a look at the Stratux source code and see how much work it
will be to change the output stream from GDL-90 (did I remember that
correctly) to Flarm protocol. If we can do that, I can fool my Streak
into thinking I've got a Flarm installed.

On 1/17/2016 4:50 PM, Andy Blackburn wrote:
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I'd like to have BlipMaps on the display - updated over the course of
the day would be a nice to have, but probably not essential - that's
separate from ADS-B weather of course. For the ADS-B stuff, knowing
where the thunderstorms are can be useful for those final glide
decisions where you want to know whether you might need to use the ILS
by the time you get there. Also for knowing whether you can get around
a cell or not, how far to the sun on the far side of the blowoff. The
usual nail-biter decisions where most people can only make a guess.
Even for you some of those scenarios might be occasionally useful aids
to getting home on an OD day. 9B

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Dan, 5J