Randy Smith wrote: > She saw > me take off and got all p**t. I figured I better get > rid of something so we got divorced. I loved my KR.
You need one of those T-shirts that William Wynne sells: "my ex wanted me to quit flying". I have one, and I wear it all the time. I get some funny looks from the women that I run into throughout the day, but occasionally I get a warm smile, like "now there's a man that's truly in love with flying". And just so there will we a tinge of KR content in the message, I now have weather capability in the KR, so y'all just let me know when the next Gathering is. Actually it's not in the KR yet, but I jigged it up last night in the GTI and it works great. I'll do a web page on the installation, but there's a photo of the screen at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/06092010m.jpg . It shows a flight route between me and MVN, and the clouds that were in place at about 8PM last night. It also shows TFRs, rain, lightening strikes, etc. I'm using the WXWORX XM sattelite box and FlightPrep Chartcase software running on a laptop. I'll fly with this and see if I can handle a laptop on the seat. I think that's the best solution because I can use a cheap laptop and keep my Airmap 1000 on the panel. Now I have two GPSs, and I only need the laptop for weather. I carry the laptop on every flight anyway to record EIS info, so I may as well have weather on it too! The neat thing about this is that I don't have to buy a $2700 LS-800, just use an inexpensive laptop with a bright screen (some of the latest generation of laptops are about as daylight readable as the LS-800). This laptop is my work laptop, so I'm still researching a cheap bright one for home use. I flew with it on Tuesday and I could see it pretty well, and best of all I have a keyboard and fingerpad with it, something you don't get with an LS-800. WXWORX is $50 a month...that's the big downside, but you'd have to pay that with a Garmin 386 anyway... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
