Hardware Recommendations
WEATHER in the palm of your hand.
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XM Weather Kit
Real Time Weather on the APIC moving map is available using XM WX Satellite Weather information. APIC allows
the user to populate or depopulate the moving map with detailed weather information. This includes TAF, Metars,
Radar, Satellite, Winds Aloft, Lightning Strikes, Airmets, Sigmets, and TFR information. APIC Weather capability
is included in APIC - no additional charge! To integrate this data into the APIC software a WxWorx Receiver Kit
must be purchased along with a XM WX Satellite Weather Subscription.
[XM's satellites simultaneously transmit all data, optimizing signal availability to mobile users. XM's transmission in the S-band
remains strong ever in poor weather conditions.]
With APIC NO additional software is required to receive weather data!!
Purchase weather receiver kit . . .
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XM WX Satellite Weather Subscription |
No online activation; please call
toll free: 1-800-985-9200. |
| XM WX Aviation Package: | Aviator LT | Aviator |
| Subscription Pricing (monthly) | $29.99 | $49.99 |
| One-Time Activation Fee | $75 | $75 |
| XM WX Specifications: | Aviator LT | Aviator |
| High Resolution Radar - NEXRAD | X | X |
| TFRs | X | X |
| City Forecasts | X | X |
| County Warnings | X | X |
| Precipitation Type (at surface) | X | X |
| METARs | X | X |
| TAFs | X | X |
| AIRMETs | | X |
| SIGMETs | | X |
| Echo Tops | | X |
| Severe Weather Storm Tracks | | X |
| Surface Analysis Weather Maps | | X |
| Lightning | | X |
| Winds Aloft (at altitude) | | X |
| Satellite Mosaic | | X |
Select the Aviator LT or Aviator package.
Have your credit card and Radio ID code (located on bottom of your Receiver Kit) available.
When you call, an XM representative will ask you to provide your address, billing information,
Radio ID code, and other information to set up your XM account.
You can be billed monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually.
APIC
APIC software will allow you to populate or depopulate your map with the following weather items:
Metars, Radar, Lightning, Satellite, Winds Aloft, Airmets: (Turb, Icing, Mtn Obs, IFR),
Sigmets:(Turb, Conv,Ice), and TFR.
AVIATORS
You can call XM Radio and suspend your subscription billing once a year. (For those months you do not fly.)
Ask for the 'End of Season' package. XM Radio will suspend your subscription billing until you call them back.
This way you do NOT need to pay another 'Activation Fee.'
| POPULATE THE SCREEN | OR | DEPOPULATE THE SCREEN |
Weather Items to display (or not) are: Metars, Radar, Lightning, Sat, Winds Aloft, Airmets:
(Turb, Icing, Mtn Obs, IFR), Sigmets:(Turb, Conv, Ice), TFR.
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