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From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
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Posted for "Matt Hapgood" <matt.hapgood@alumni.duke.edu>:

  Tom,
  
  Agreed about avoidance.  I do use WxWorx for tactical when VMC conditions.
  In those situations I can see the cells, but not necessarily what is behind
  them.  WxWorx gives me a good idea of what's behind them.  That way it keeps
  me from flying around a cell (VMC) only to find a wall of storms in front of
  me.
  
  If it's embedded in IMC conditions, that's when I give a very wide berth.
  
  Nothing is amiss with the GPS - when I use it on the road it's withing about
  20 feet (when I am at the intersection of X and Y, it shows me AT the
  intersection).
  
  The receiver is just getting coordinates and 1 & 0's to show digitized
  weather... so I can't imagine that it is the receiver.  I think it must be
  the software or information that is being sent to the receiver.
  
  Last week I made two flights.  On one flight there were many stationary
  cells.  They didn't move for over an hour.  WxWorx painted at least a few of
  them miles off from where they really were.
  
  Matt