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Flying weather on your cell phone
http://www.my-cast.com/
Here's the website for the service I first heard about at Sun N Fun. I've signed up and it seems to work perfectly. It's very, very cool to be able to see "live" weather radar on your cell phone. A radar picture is truly worth a thousand words when you're trying to skirt a front -- and for less than ten bucks a month! Just when I had started to regard my cell phone as yet another annoyance, something like this comes along. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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In article WYPhc.2472$_L6.412360@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck
wrote: It's very, very cool to be able to see "live" weather radar on your cell phone. A radar picture is truly worth a thousand words when you're trying to skirt a front -- and for less than ten bucks a month! How well does it work in flight conditions? |
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Here's the website for the service I first heard about at Sun N Fun. I've
signed up and it seems to work perfectly. I have the Samsung i700 which has a cellular modem (and unlimited internet access through Verizon). I've found http://www.accuweather.com/pda to be a good, free weather site. DUATS works well with it too. I assume it's not legal for use in flight though, and I don't see how this service is any different - is it? |
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In article WYPhc.2472$_L6.412360@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.my-cast.com/ Here's the website for the service I first heard about at Sun N Fun. I've signed up and it seems to work perfectly. I have a GPRS phone, and I've just set up short cuts to weather images and data. For all the moaners about the abbreviations used in TAF/METAR reports, it does mean it fits nicely on a mobile phone screen :-) -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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EDR wrote in message ...
In article WYPhc.2472$_L6.412360@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck wrote: It's very, very cool to be able to see "live" weather radar on your cell phone. A radar picture is truly worth a thousand words when you're trying to skirt a front -- and for less than ten bucks a month! How well does it work in flight conditions? My phone rarely gets a signal at 5000-8000 MSL that I usually fly. So,this will be useful when I'm on the ground, but doubt this is useful for 'live' cockpit weather. But at $9.95/month, I'll try. Especially with the summer thunderstorm season approaching. |
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I have a GPRS phone, and I've just set up short cuts to weather images
and data. For all the moaners about the abbreviations used in TAF/METAR reports, it does mean it fits nicely on a mobile phone screen :-) Funny you should mention that -- I noticed it, too. For ONCE learning all those stupid abbreviations has paid off! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Try a direct link to your radar FREE noaa picture. It is much faster
to download. For example: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/images...bro/latest.gif |
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