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By the way - I flew through that weather system on Friday. There was a lot of nervous chatter on the radio with the turbulence and thunderstorms associated with the front. It became obvious to me that ATC's radar was not cutting it when I got a vector right into a big red cell. I told them updated radar downloads
and could I navigate on my own? Permission was granted and I picked my way through it without incident and not so much as even moderate turbulance.
ATC asked me for PIREPS and then started vectoring aircraft in my path. It was very cool. I was completely in the soup for over an hour, just to duck out on the other end on the friendly side of an ILS.
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Got it, subscribed to XM and played with it on the ground. I had to test fly a Bonanza after an autopilot repair and there was a line of CB’s approaching. I flew straight for them. The stormscope 1000 in this plane was "spoking" so it wouldn’t indicate with any precision the actual location of the line. Awesome! I could actually find "holes" through the line without having to patrol for them. The rain boundaries depicted on the map coincided so close to the actual rain that it amazed me. I expected the delay from NEXRAD to be appreciable, but in reality you hardly notice it. I can already tell that this will dramatically increase the utility of my plane and all the other ones I fly. We leave tomorrow for a long weekend in Houston. I feel so much more relaxed knowing that I’ll have the big picture when I have to face the inevitable summer time line.
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