Cell Phone Weather

[Groundpounder]

I just got a new fancy cell phone, with one of those color screens. Its through Verizon, and they offer a service that provides aviation weather. Here is the description from the web site:

Pilot My-Cast provides convenient weather information to the general aviation or commercial pilot. View animated Doppler radar centered on your airport as well as METARs (coded and decoded) and TAFs along your route. Pan around a weather map and page through graphical depictions of flight conditions, ceiling, visibility, wind, cloud cover, altimeter, temperature, dew point, observation times, and stations. Airtime required.

That sounds like it could be pretty handy, does anyone on here use this service, or anything similar?

 

[56xdriver]

I use a service that is called AvWx.net. I currently use it on the Treo 600, and you have the capability of looking up METARS, TAFs, Radar, satellite pics, regional and local weather conditions, airport info (inlcudes FBOs, rental car agencies, etc.) Also have the ability of looking up any airport by city name, and I am pretty sure that it has worldwide info,

 

[Moonfly201]

Cheap In-Flight Weather

Buy a Palm i705 (Palm Pilot) on E-Bay for $40 to $70. They are no longer sold in stores because they have a black & white screen and have been superceded.

Then, subscribe to;
http://www.palmone.com/us/wireless/wirelessoptions.html
Their PalmNet basic plan is $19.95 per month, and allows your Palm i705 to have a wireless browser using 270 old pager towers located across America. This is legal to use from your aircraft, and works really well when within 20 miles from cities that have towers. With the PalmNet wireless service you are able to send and receive email during a flight.

Next, order up;
http://turbowx.com/
This costs $70 per year, and gives you Nexrad, Metars, etc. The TurboWX paints the precipitation in 16 shades and is only 5 minutes old. I love it.