Verizon (my service) provides airplane service at an extra charge. Justin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraut" <brian.kr...@engalt.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: RE: KR> Cell Phone Weather!
> I used it for about six months. I really loved it, but my digital phone > would usually not work above 1,000' so it was fairly useless in the cockpit. > It was really great for preflight planing though and not expensive. > > I go a postcard from www.wxworx.com yesterday for their XM radio based > system. The card was for a live demonstration at my airport, but > unfortunately, I got the card the day after the demo. I had an XM in my KR > piped through my intercom and it worked great all the time at any altitude > so that would probably be a real good in flight weather sytem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On > Behalf Of Dana Overall > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:24 AM > To: kr...@mylist.net > Subject: RE: KR> Cell Phone Weather! > > > I've used it for the last several months. It is a nice addition for weather > awareness. Believe it or not, the near real time NEXRAD is actually a > little conservative in it's presentation. I think it has something to do > with picking up water saturated clouds from above the earth vs. water pickup > of a standard radar. It also is from pilot mycast on a phone from Cingular. > > So, when I meet up with Langford on April 15th for our trek to SNF we'll > have on board, in Doug's plane, a new GNX80, new Garmin audio panel for Doug > to play with, Mark has his his new Garmin 196, I'll have my new Monroy 200 > air traffic detector and cell weather.........................heck with all > those new toys on board we'll probably strangle ourselves in all the > wires:-) > > > > Dana Overall > 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host > Richmond, KY i39 > RV-7 slider, Imron black, "Black Magic" > Finish kit > 13B Rotary. Hangar flying my Dynon. > http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero1.jpg > http://rvflying.tripod.com/aero3.jpg > http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackrudder.jpg > do not archive > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get tax tips, tools and access to IRS forms all in one place at MSN Money! > http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/home.asp > > > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
