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11-03-2008, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Winds Aloft on Garmin 396/496
While flying Friday and Saturday, 31 Oct-1 Nov, three members of Falcon Fllight with Garmin 396/496 onboard all experienced continuous "Waiting for Data" indications when checking Winds Aloft. Indication was continuous all day, both days. Since all three of us experienced it, I assume it was not our individual units, rather a system upload error. Anybody know what the problem was or when it will be fixed?
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11-03-2008, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Stu McCurdy
While flying Friday and Saturday, 31 Oct-1 Nov, three members of Falcon Fllight with Garmin 396/496 onboard all experienced continuous "Waiting for Data" indications when checking Winds Aloft. Indication was continuous all day, both days. Since all three of us experienced it, I assume it was not our individual units, rather a system upload error. Anybody know what the problem was or when it will be fixed?
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Don't know the answer, but flying Saturday and Sunday afternoon it did not work for me either. Everything else was normal so I assume there is a XM problem. 
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11-03-2008, 05:24 PM
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same here! I was wondering what happened, so I'm glad to hear it wasn't me or my unit
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11-03-2008, 08:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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WIND ALOFT
flew sunday morning at 1300z and had data
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11-04-2008, 04:11 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Wind Aloft
Lost the last message I tried to send, but, anyway winds aloft should be fixed now. Server or data format problem at XM or WX Worx. Ended up with great response from WX Worx and Garmin after spending two days chasing it through the XM maze. Really got frustrated with audio response unit at XM but finally got Glenn at WX Worx and Bob Cooper at Garmin. Both were helpful and got it fixed. Biggest problem I noticed was that several people at Garmin knew of the problem but apparently communications between Garmin and XM seems to be pretty lax. Hope this helps.
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11-04-2008, 07:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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I didn't know that I could get winds aloft on the 496, where is that info ??
Bill
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11-04-2008, 07:17 AM
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Location: Louisville, Ga
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You enter figures..
....and it calculates them, according to the manual, page 50, from what I gather, or maybe the higher priced WX sub includes that.
Regards,
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11-04-2008, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Round Rock, TX
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Originally Posted by Bill Riggs
I didn't know that I could get winds aloft on the 496, where is that info ??
Bill
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First, read the Book. Then push Menu twice, cursor down to weather, cursor right to weather options, then cursor down to winds aloft, then cursor right to altitudes and cursor up to altitiude desired.
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Stu McCurdy (Falcon)
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11-04-2008, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Louisa, VA LKU
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu McCurdy
First, read the Book. Then push Menu twice, cursor down to weather, cursor right to weather options, then cursor down to winds aloft, then cursor right to altitudes and cursor up to altitiude desired.
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No thanks, I would rather ask someone that has already read it. |
11-04-2008, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by pierre smith
....and it calculates them, according to the manual, page 50, from what I gather, or maybe the higher priced WX sub includes that.
Regards,
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You're right, it does calculate them, but that isn't what this post is about (I think). The XM weather "full" version gives you the wind aloft forecasts - useful if you don't want to climb to altitude to figure out what's there. I used them when I first got my 396, but then I started using Weathermeister for briefings, and got such a good picture of what is out there that I just never go to the XM winds page anymore.
Paul
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