Even though I fly a Technologically Challenged Airplane, I do have a Garmin 396 with datalinked XM Weather. My trip to Oshkosh last Friday would not have worked without it.
I filed IFR from home base, Somerset Airport in New Jersey, to my fuel stop at Sandusky, Ohio. With the headwinds forecast by fltplan.com, I was confident I’d have sufficient groundspeed to get there with healthy reserves. In the last issue of Flying, Editor in Chief Mac McClellan wrote how accurate his flight plans are when filed through that free service. This was my first experience with it, and I liked what I saw.
