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Old June 14th 07, 02:50 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Weather Info via a web cell phone

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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