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Now! The Most Advanced Aviation Weather Service Yet! Yours, Thru XM Satellite Radio
You probably already know about XM Satellite Radio, the powerful new satellite system that transmits commercial-free music, talk and other entertainment with superior digital quality. You may even have it in your new car. And now, XM Satellite Radio has joined WX Worx, a private weather information service, to bring unbelievably crisp, clear high resolution weather graphics to your cockpit in near real time! This new service, known as XM WX Satellite Weather, available soon, is amazingly affordable.
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Kings Avionics technicians Clay Allison and Matt Drake perform final inspection and ops evaluation of Heads Up XM WX Satellite Weather system installed in Cirrus SR22 aircraft, which displays on the Avidyne Integra MFD. It will soon display XM WX Satellite Weather, available by subscription. |
If you already have a moving map, Garmin, Avidyne, and other avionics manufacturers, can upgrade your present system at a very modest cost of receive XM WX Satellite Weather. And, even if you don't yet have a moving map in your aircraft, there has never been a better reason to get one.
XM WX transmits a NEXRAD national radar picture every 5 minutes via satellite broadcasts. No request/reply action is needed. XM Satellite Radio has two powerful geostationary satellites positioned over the east and west coasts to provide seamless coverage of the U. S. and coastal waters. Its super-sharp graphics can show storm cells, speed and direction of movement, echo tops, lightning, possible hail, winds aloft, precipitation type at surface, METARS, SIGMETS, AIRMETS, TAFs, TRFs, and more.
Now you can have NEXRAD weather--sharper, clearer than you have ever seen it--shown here overlaid on a Garmin GNS 530 moving map. |
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XM WX Satellite Weather, available by subscription, offers two service tiers--the "Aviator" tier, at $49.99 monthly, and the "Aviator Lite" tier, which provides a core group of services at $29.99 monthly. This allows users to select the level of service that best fits their needs at a corresponding price.
Besides XM WX Satellite Weather in the cockpit, XM WX can provide quality entertainment programs in the passenger cabin. In fact, the aircraft can be wired to provide individual channel selection at each passenger seat.
With XM WX Satellite Weather available in your cockpit, you can now know far in advance what type of weather you will encounter on any flight. Unlike radar alone, which cannot always show you what may be lurking behind that storm front, XM WX Satellite graphics show you the entire picture. So you should never again fly up to a thunderstorm without knowing it is there, and--even more important--what's hidden behind it that you can't see on radar alone.
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Cloud top graphic, shown here on an MX 20 screen, gives you an excellent overview of cloud coverage, including cloud tops info, and areas to avoid. |
One of the valuable services we offer our customers is to help them choose new avionics that will work best with their present equipment, and at a price that best fits their budget. If you are interested in having advanced new XM WX Satellite Weather in your aircraft, we invite you to call us for more information. And if you don't yet have a moving map in your aircraft, we can help you select one to fit your needs. Just call us at 801-539-8412 today. Ask for Doug Hayden or Jim Goodrich.
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