X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from esmtp.cave.com ([66.35.72.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 983508 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:03:09 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.35.72.5; envelope-from=lancair@ustek.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([66.35.73.227]) by esmtp.cave.com (VisNetic.MailServer.v7.2.4.1) with ASMTP id CQN38002 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:02:23 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <42A09B2B.809@ustek.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:02:19 -0400 From: N301ES Reply-To: lancair@ustek.com Organization: USTEK Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Ground planes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marvin Kaye wrote: > Posted for "Bryan J. Burr" : > Sounds like a good argument to go with XM Weather (WxWorx) and "S" > mode transponders for traffic. Actually I have both in my GlaStar, but they are limited. Mode S is fine where there is reception, but even just cruising across Ohio there are many areas with no coverage. I considered the passive Ryan TCAD 9900B because it works whenever a transponder is interrogated by Center or approach, providing that you are in US radar coverage. However I went with the active TAS 9900BX because it is on and interrogating all the time and everywhere. Means I only have to look out for ultralights, and gliders, and balloons, and sky divers, (and things that go bump/crash in the night). Good thing that the ES-P has large windows. The NexRad weather depiction on WSI and WxWorks is a great planning tool for domestic flights. However the cell position is based on aged precip density and the lightning strikes are limited to air-ground. The in-cloud strikes are not depicted. And NexRad peters out when a bit off shore. Flying beyond Cuba to the Cayman Islands and into the southern Bahamas is without any radar returns or lighting detection, hence my need for real-time everywhere-available info. (And again, I will appreciate those big windows!) My GlaStar has an Insight Strikefinder but at present the Cheltons in my ES-P require the likes of a WX500. If I had the available weight and the room and the bucks I might even install onboard radar, but I don't so I won't. ;-) Robert M. Simon, ES-P (xl) N301ES