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Re: XM Weather in the Cockpit

I flew a 2004 SR22 GTS last Saturday. It had the XM weather option, that's what you get with the GTS model plus a lot more. The weather worked great, the return were very fast, even the view on the MFD showed the airport in either green, yellow or red, i believe to indicate VFR, MVFR, IFR. metars were alittle old and no TAFs were available. I think I will buy it, BTW the approach plates were installed but were not working, something about the subscription being expired and then they wont work. The plane itself was awesome, a lot more power than my 20 and the PFD was extremely user friendly. It had the altitude preselect button on it and we flew a coupled ILS down to minimums and went missed and returned to our Apt and flew a GPS approach using vectors and lots of input from ATC headings, altitudes, etc and it flew us right to minimums, its really amazing.BTW, I like this forum alot for ease of use and friendliness, I hope others will start posting here.