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I searched the archives & did not see any recent posts on this. I
just upgraded my cell phone to a new one, Sprint Service, that comes with some type of web access. It has some canned weather sites that provide simple weather for non-pilots, but am interested in a web site that will (1) fit well, and is simple to use, on the tiny cell phone screen and (2) ideally, shows current radar, but SA's would be fine enough. I experimented with www.duats.com and aviationweather.gov, the two that I use with a PC. DUATS wasn't too useful. Aviationweather.gov actually showed a very good, but tiny, pic of the USA with fields in IFR/MVFR/VFR that the web site shows on its home page when you first visit it. And tantalizingly, I was able to "browse" to the radar section but was never able to pull up a useful radar pic. I was wondering if any site had optimized their site for phone web so that it would be easy to type in a 4 letter designator and pull up an SA. For my type of flying this woudl be really useful as during the summer it invariably involves setting down in front of a line of cells, getting a pic of the weather,and "threading" through. Many times this involves setting down in fields where they have apparently never heard of refrigerated food, much less the internet, so the phone access is useful. I know I can always call up the FSS but we all know that calls to the FSS are taking longer nowadays. And the web access from the phone is free with the service, which is a plus. Anybody know of any web-phone weather sites out there for pilots? Thanks in advance, Hank Rausch |
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