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flyboy.bob(at)gmail.com
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Jack,
No doubt Dan appreciates the advertisement (SPAM) but IMHO your just wrong!
No doubt Dan;s weather page WAS great!!! But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no longer remember your location or allow you to set a radius . .. it's nearly worthless! Without the $5.00 per month fee it doesn't even do route weather. I'm not saying it's not worth it if you fly several trips per month but it's not much good for the occasional flyer anymore.
Golden Eagle looks like the only choice now if you don't want to pay a monthly fee!
What am I missing???
Regards
Bob in SE Iowa
On 11/9/06, Jack Lockamy <jacklockamy(at)verizon.net (jacklockamy(at)verizon.net)> wrote:[quote] --> RV-List message posted by: Jack Lockamy <jacklockamy(at)verizon.net (jacklockamy(at)verizon.net)>
For those who aren't aware... there is an OUTSTANDING new tool available for aviation weather info. Check out www.weathermeister.com
This aviation weather website was developed and is maintained by Dan Checkoway (aka 'Sharpie') who is a SoCAL RV-7 builder/formation pilot and frequent contributor to Kitplanes Magazine. Many of you have probably visited his RV-7 website.... www.rvproject.com. Hands down the best RV builder website on the internet.
Dan has created a MASTERPIECE!!! Weathermeister.com is a FREE web-based tool that will absolutely change the way you currently get your weather infomation when flying locally or coast-to-coast in your RV. After experiencing www.weathermeister.com, you will NEVER go back to DUATS.
Weathermeister.com displays numerous weather charts, winds aloft info, best economy and best speed altitudes to fly based on up-to-the-minute winds aloft data, TFRs, forecast weather conditions at your destination and airports under your flight path, and much, much more.
If you sign up for the premium service ($4.95 monthly or $49.95 yearly...), you can store your own aircraft info and frequently flown cross-country routes that will accurately give you fuel burn, ETE, etc. The premium service is an unbelievable value once you see how powerful, and easy to use the tools available really are. I encourage everyone to visit www.weathermeister.com., evaluate it's awesome capabilities, and sign-up for the premium service to keep the site alive! (NOTE: The Premium service provides a LOT more info than the free site.)
As a government employee, I still don't understand how a fellow like Dan Checkoway can single-handedly provide such a useful tool for evaluating flight weather conditions when the entire government (read FAA...) can not provide readable or barely understandable weather info to us. Weathermeister.com displays it all so clearly.
If you haven't checked out www.weathermeister.com, you owe it to yourself to try it. I use it EVERY time I intend to fly...
Tell a friend about the site. They WILL thank you!!!
Jack Lockamy
RV-7A N174JL 250 hrs.
Camarillo, CA
www.jacklockamy.com
NOTE: Although Dan C. is a friend of mine, he is not aware of this posting nor did he endorse this message. I am in no way affiliated with www.weathermeister.com. I'm just a a VERY grateful user that appreciates the weather tool Dan has created and wanted to share it with my fellow RV builders/pilots who may not have discovered it yet. [quote][b]
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Bob Collins
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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It cracks me up how folks who have no problem spending tens of thousands of dollars avionics and a gazillion more on stuff in a homebuilt plane that you can't find in a 747, and then go all glassy-eyed at the prospect of spending $49.95 a year so they're a more informed -- and presumably safer -- pilot.
Obviously folks have a right not to spend money they don't wish to spend, but there's a bit of an entitlement mentality at work when people who are doing all the work and spending money on servers etc. to provide something free, all of a sudden get ripped for being compensated for their effort.
If you don't want to pay, don't pay. But please have the good sense not to belittle even the "free" stuff as "worthless."
At the very LEAST, you got what you paid for. Stop complaining about it.
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Tim(at)MyRV10.com
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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I've been using GoldenEagle for the past year now, and find it amazing
that you can get all of that for FREE. It's a fantastic program,
and worth a try for anyone who hasn't seen it. Not only that, but
after using it for a while, at OSH I decided to buy ChartCase Express
for in-flight tracking and charting. That too is a very cool program
and has all the low-enroute, sectional, WAC, and terminal approach
charts, plus more, and includes a terrain view EFIS with HITS, similar
to flying with a Chelton system. The nice thing is, you can save
your route in Golden Eagle Flight Prep, and then import it into
Chart Case Express. Now Chart Case is definitely not free, but they're
giving a heck of a program away for free with Golden Eagle, trying
to lure you to their paid-for software....it sure worked on me.
None of that is to knock Dan's site. I haven't looked at it but
briefly. The only disappointment worth mentioning with the limited
exposure I have to it is that the page is that the free side of
it is covered by "Ads by google", which makes it lose appeal for
myself. On the plus side, it is web based, so you don't require
a software download, so there is a market for the info.
On the flip side, if you're really in need of an online flight planner,
it looks like FlightPrep http://www.flightprep.com/ also has an online
version that would be excellent and include more feature wise than
you could almost ever expect, but you'll pay $149/yr for it. For an
IFR flier though, this might be more of what you'd need considering you
can even get approach plates out of it.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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| Quote: | Jack,
No doubt Dan appreciates the advertisement (SPAM) but IMHO your just wrong!
No doubt Dan;s weather page WAS great!!! But it's NOT FREE
anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no longer remember your
location or allow you to set a radius . .. it's nearly worthless!
Without the $5.00 per month fee it doesn't even do route weather. I'm
not saying it's not worth it if you fly several trips per month but it's
not much good for the occasional flyer anymore.
Golden Eagle looks like the only choice now if you don't want to pay a
monthly fee!
What am I missing???
Regards
Bob in SE Iowa
On 11/9/06, * Jack Lockamy* <jacklockamy(at)verizon.net
<mailto:jacklockamy(at)verizon.net>> wrote:
<mailto:jacklockamy(at)verizon.net>>
For those who aren't aware... there is an OUTSTANDING new tool
available for aviation weather info. Check out
www.weathermeister.com <http://www.weathermeister.com>
This aviation weather website was developed and is maintained by Dan
Checkoway (aka 'Sharpie') who is a SoCAL RV-7 builder/formation
pilot and frequent contributor to Kitplanes Magazine. Many of you
have probably visited his RV-7 website.... www.rvproject.com
<http://www.rvproject.com>. Hands down the best RV builder website
on the internet.
Dan has created a MASTERPIECE!!! Weathermeister.com
<http://Weathermeister.com> is a FREE web-based tool that will
absolutely change the way you currently get your weather infomation
when flying locally or coast-to-coast in your RV. After
experiencing www.weathermeister.com <http://www.weathermeister.com>,
you will NEVER go back to DUATS.
Weathermeister.com <http://Weathermeister.com> displays numerous
weather charts, winds aloft info, best economy and best speed
altitudes to fly based on up-to-the-minute winds aloft data, TFRs,
forecast weather conditions at your destination and airports under
your flight path, and much, much more.
If you sign up for the premium service ($4.95 monthly or $49.95
yearly...), you can store your own aircraft info and frequently
flown cross-country routes that will accurately give you fuel burn,
ETE, etc. The premium service is an unbelievable value once you see
how powerful, and easy to use the tools available really are. I
encourage everyone to visit www.weathermeister.com
<http://www.weathermeister.com>., evaluate it's awesome
capabilities, and sign-up for the premium service to keep the site
alive! (NOTE: The Premium service provides a LOT more info than
the free site.)
As a government employee, I still don't understand how a fellow like
Dan Checkoway can single-handedly provide such a useful tool for
evaluating flight weather conditions when the entire government
(read FAA...) can not provide readable or barely understandable
weather info to us. Weathermeister.com <http://Weathermeister.com>
displays it all so clearly.
If you haven't checked out www.weathermeister.com
<http://www.weathermeister.com>, you owe it to yourself to try
it. I use it EVERY time I intend to fly...
Tell a friend about the site. They WILL thank you!!!
Jack Lockamy
RV-7A N174JL 250 hrs.
Camarillo, CA
www.jacklockamy.com <http://www.jacklockamy.com>
NOTE: Although Dan C. is a friend of mine, he is not aware of this
posting nor did he endorse this message. I am in no way affiliated
with www.weathermeister.com <http://www.weathermeister.com>. I'm
just a a VERY grateful user that appreciates the weather tool Dan
has created and wanted to share it with my fellow RV builders/pilots
who may not have discovered it yet.
*
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jacklockamy(at)verizon.ne
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Bob (and others),
I apologize if you consider my post regarding 'Weathermeister.com' as SPAM. It never crossed my mind that it was either SPAM or an advertisement for the site or Dan Checkoway.
I am extremely impressed with the weather info and it's capabilities and thought I was doing the RV commmunity a favor by mentioning the site to others who may not be aware of it.
In the future, I will keep my opinions and recommendations to myself and STAY in the lurker mode....
Cheers,
Jack Lockamy
Camarillo, CA
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ronlee(at)pcisys.net
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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I apologize if you consider my post regarding 'Weathermeister.com' as SPAM. It never crossed my mind that it was either SPAM or an advertisement for the site or Dan Checkoway.
I am extremely impressed with the weather info and it's capabilities and thought I was doing the RV commmunity a favor by mentioning the site to others who may not be aware of it.
In the future, I will keep my opinions and recommendations to myself and STAY in the lurker mode....
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I see nothing wrong with pilot input on good and bad products.
Personally I am not happy that the winds/weather info provided
by Dan's website is now a fee-based service but such is life.
Ron Lee
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billsettle(at)bellsouth.n
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Jack,
I for one am glad you posted the message about Weathermeister.com. And because you did, I also became aware of the Golden Eagle & Cirrus software for DUATS as well as FlightAware.com. I did not know any of these existed... So please do not become a "lurker". It is through the experienced insight that you guys have, and are willing to share, that ignorant newbies like me can learn. I sincerely appreciate everyone's contributions.
Bill Settle
Winston-Salem, NC
RV-8 Rudder
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From: "JACK LOCKAMY" <jacklockamy(at)verizon.net>
Date: 2006/11/11 Sat AM 08:31:40 EST
To: "RV List" <rv-list(at)matronics.com>
Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
Bob (and others),
I apologize if you consider my post regarding 'Weathermeister.com' as SPAM. It never crossed my mind that it was either SPAM or an advertisement for the site or Dan Checkoway.
I am extremely impressed with the weather info and it's capabilities and thought I was doing the RV commmunity a favor by mentioning the site to others who may not be aware of it.
In the future, I will keep my opinions and recommendations to myself and STAY in the lurker mode....
Cheers,
Jack Lockamy
Camarillo, CA
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Jack,
You should never apologize for bringing what you believe to be a great aviation product and value to the attention of other builders/pilots... that's the purpose of these lists -- to share information about what's good and what's bad. There is a vocal minority out there with the twisted notion that "if it costs money it's bad". I suspect they don't work for free and question why they expect others to. Money and/or profit is not a dirty word, it's all about VALUE, in other words what do we receive for a given amount of money.
Dan - Thanks for bringing another cost-effective weather option to the aviation community.
Jack - Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Dan didn't want to for fear of the same misguided attitude noted above and we need to know about it.
Randy Lervold
www.rv-3.com
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Well said Randy!
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jjessen
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Jack, it wasn't SPAM. It was a good reminder of a useful tool. It's good to give an opinion of a tool here so others can come back with their opinion of other, good tools, and others can go take a test drive and benefit from the new knowledge. I've benefited from such SPAM discussions in the past, and hope to in the future. Don't just lurk. Put on the flame suit and keep posting. If there are folks who disagree with your opinion, fine. Some might be more "civil" in their retort, but what the hey. It rains here in Oregon, but what beauty.
John Jessen
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| Quote: | From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of JACK LOCKAMY
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:32 AM
To: RV List
Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
Bob (and others),
I apologize if you consider my post regarding 'Weathermeister.com' as SPAM. It never crossed my mind that it was either SPAM or an advertisement for the site or Dan Checkoway.
I am extremely impressed with the weather info and it's capabilities and thought I was doing the RV commmunity a favor by mentioning the site to others who may not be aware of it.
In the future, I will keep my opinions and recommendations to myself and STAY in the lurker mode....
Cheers,
Jack Lockamy
Camarillo, CA
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:03 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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No doubt Dan;s weather page WAS great!!! But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no longer remember your location or allow you to set a radius . . it's nearly worthless! Without the $5.00 per month fee it doesn't even do route weather. I'm not saying it's not worth it if you fly several trips per month but it's not much good for the occasional flyer anymore.
Golden Eagle looks like the only choice now if you don't want to pay a monthly fee!
What am I missing???
Regards
Bob in SE Iowa
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Yep.
The FREE version WAS great before it got crippled.
Nothing quite like 'truth in advertising' to stir the hornet's nest, Bob.  )
Like you... my style of flying does NOT JUSTIFY any fee based product at this time.
I have Golden Eagle installed, but I am much more familiar using Cirrus.
Either meets my needs and then some. Soooo...
How much money is in my plane or bank account is irrelevant.
Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beerholder [beholder].
Again, CIRRUS 5 and Golden Eagle FlightPrep® flight planner are still.... FREE!
http://www.duats.com/cirrus.shtml
Bob - the beerholder and defender of capitalism
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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John Jessen wrote:
| Quote: | It rains here in Oregon, but what beauty.
John Jessen
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Yes it does rain here. everyday it pours down rain, never a day goes by
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that it does not rain, so please do not anyone else move to this state
where it
rains everyday. And John is wrong about the beauty it is dark, gloomy,
damp and miserable here 
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Terry Watson
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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This conversation reminds me of an incident here on the RV list some years ago. A guy named Steve had a computerized system for laying out and cutting instrument panels. I think he still does it, and I have only heard great things about him and his work, EXCEPT in one case from one “customer”.
Steve offered to use his equipment and expertise to create name tags for anyone on the list so they could make contact with each other at flyins. He offered to do it for FREE – no cost, not even for materials or postage. But of course he would do it in his spare time, so it might take awhile.
You guessed it … someone decided he wasn’t quick enough and started bitching and badmouthing the guy right here on the RV list, for a FREE service.
Dan Checkoway has provided more free and helpful services than anyone else I can think of, (with the possible exceptions of Randy Levold and Sam Buchanon) on or off the RV list. His website is probably the best reference anywhere in existence about building an RV; his articles in Kit Planes magazine are excellent, and now I see he is conducting workshops with SportAir on building RV’s for those who want to get a taste of what is in store for them. He has provided for free this great site for checking and decoding weather information. Now he has enhanced and expanded it into a fee based service, which costs roughly the same as a gallon of avgas a month, and some of you guys are crying about it?
How embarrassing for the rest of us.
Terry
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Bob 1
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:02 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: RV-List: Weathermeister (SPAM)
No doubt Dan;s weather page WAS great!!! But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no longer remember your location or allow you to set a radius . .. it's nearly worthless! Without the $5.00 per month fee it doesn't even do route weather. I'm not saying it's not worth it if you fly several trips per month but it's not much good for the occasional flyer anymore.
Golden Eagle looks like the only choice now if you don't want to pay a monthly fee!
What am I missing???
Regards
Bob in SE Iowa
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Yep.
The FREE version WAS great before it got crippled.
Nothing quite like 'truth in advertising' to stir the hornet's nest, Bob. )
Like you... my style of flying does NOT JUSTIFY any fee based product at this time.
I have Golden Eagle installed, but I am much more familiar using Cirrus.
Either meets my needs and then some. Soooo...
How much money is in my plane or bank account is irrelevant.
Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beerholder [beholder].
Again, CIRRUS 5 and Golden Eagle FlightPrep® flight planner are still.... FREE!
http://www.duats.com/cirrus.shtml
Bob - the beerholder and defender of capitalism
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fstringham
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Give me a break. One of my seven adult children lives in Oregon and it is
BEAUTIFUL......and I have yet to be rained on in my 10 years of visiting
them. I may even move up that way like all those Calefournea (don't ya just
love Arnold) people you love.....to......xxxxxxxx
Frank (at) SGU and SLC
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| Quote: | From: Jerry Springer <jsflyrv(at)verizon.net>
Reply-To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:07:17 -0800
John Jessen wrote:
> It rains here in Oregon, but what beauty. John Jessen
> #40328
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Yes it does rain here. everyday it pours down rain, never a day goes by
that it does not rain, so please do not anyone else move to this state
where it
rains everyday. And John is wrong about the beauty it is dark, gloomy,
damp and miserable here
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fstringham
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Terry
Yes.......Dan has done more for me and my plane than just about anyone on or
off the list. Man if I had to pay for his on list and off list advice to me
I would have to added a bunch more to the cost of the plane. Sam and
Walter's web sites have also added a great deal to my plane.
So with that said .......like noses and other body parts ........everyone
has an opinion. Some I like and others I think stink.
Frank (at) SGU and SLC
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Reply-To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
To: <rv-list(at)matronics.com>
Subject: RE: Weathermeister (SPAM)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:53:40 -0800
This conversation reminds me of an incident here on the RV list some years
ago. A guy named Steve had a computerized system for laying out and cutting
instrument panels. I think he still does it, and I have only heard great
things about him and his work, EXCEPT in one case from one "customer".
Steve offered to use his equipment and expertise to create name tags for
anyone on the list so they could make contact with each other at flyins. He
offered to do it for FREE - no cost, not even for materials or postage. But
of course he would do it in his spare time, so it might take awhile.
You guessed it . someone decided he wasn't quick enough and started
bitching
and badmouthing the guy right here on the RV list, for a FREE service.
Dan Checkoway has provided more free and helpful services than anyone else
I
can think of, (with the possible exceptions of Randy Levold and Sam
Buchanon) on or off the RV list. His website is probably the best reference
anywhere in existence about building an RV; his articles in Kit Planes
magazine are excellent, and now I see he is conducting workshops with
SportAir on building RV's for those who want to get a taste of what is in
store for them. He has provided for free this great site for checking and
decoding weather information. Now he has enhanced and expanded it into a
fee
based service, which costs roughly the same as a gallon of avgas a month,
and some of you guys are crying about it?
How embarrassing for the rest of us.
Terry
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From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
[mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Bob 1
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:02 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
No doubt Dan;s weather page WAS great!!! But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!!
With the 'free' function it will no longer remember your location or allow
you to set a radius . .. it's nearly worthless! Without the $5.00 per
month fee it doesn't even do route weather. I'm not saying it's not worth
it if you fly several trips per month but it's not much good for the
occasional flyer anymore.
Golden Eagle looks like the only choice now if you don't want to pay a
monthly fee!
What am I missing???
Regards
Bob in SE Iowa
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Yep.
The FREE version WAS great before it got crippled.
Nothing quite like 'truth in advertising' to stir the hornet's nest, Bob.
)
Like you... my style of flying does NOT JUSTIFY any fee based product at
this time.
I have Golden Eagle installed, but I am much more familiar using Cirrus.
Either meets my needs and then some. Soooo...
How much money is in my plane or bank account is irrelevant.
Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beerholder [beholder].
Again, CIRRUS 5 and Golden Eagle FlightPrepR flight planner are still....
FREE!
http://www.duats.com/cirrus.shtml
Bob - the beerholder and defender of capitalism
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Frank you are not helping to keep the state I have lived in all of my
life from becoming over populated like the state you want to escape
from. So NO, you don't get a break oops to late, it is getting
next to impossible to even drive to Portland from where I live
20 miles the west.
do not archive
Frank Stringham wrote:
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Give me a break. One of my seven adult children lives in Oregon and it
is BEAUTIFUL......and I have yet to be rained on in my 10 years of
visiting them. I may even move up that way like all those Calefournea
(don't ya just love Arnold) people you love.....to......xxxxxxxx
Frank (at) SGU and SLC
do not archive
> From: Jerry Springer <jsflyrv(at)verizon.net>
> Reply-To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
> To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
> Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:07:17 -0800
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> John Jessen wrote:
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>> It rains here in Oregon, but what beauty. John Jessen
>> #40328
>> do not archive
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> Yes it does rain here. everyday it pours down rain, never a day goes
> by that it does not rain, so please do not anyone else move to this
> state where it
> rains everyday. And John is wrong about the beauty it is dark,
> gloomy, damp and miserable here
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> do not archive
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> Jerry
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| Quote: | So with that said .......like noses and other body parts ........everyone
has an opinion. Some I like and others I think stink.
Frank (at) SGU and SLC
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Everyone certainly is entitled to their own opinion, Frank, but not their
own facts.
OPINION:
| Quote: | Dan has created a MASTERPIECE!!! Weathermeister.com is a FREE web-based
tool that will absolutely change the way you currently get your weather
infomation when flying locally or coast-to-coast in your RV.
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| Quote: | But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no longer
remember your location or allow you to set a radius . .. Without the $5.00
per month fee it doesn't even do route weather.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:54 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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No one said Dan was not a good guy.
He is only providing a very nice solution and format for Government generated information using his computer knowledge. I just do not think it is worth one more low cost of $X.95 per month. It is a marketing response.
Frank Stringham <fstringham(at)hotmail.com> wrote:
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Terry
Yes.......Dan has done more for me and my plane than just about anyone on or
off the list. Man if I had to pay for his on list and off list advice to me
I would have to added a bunch more to the cost of the plane. Sam and
Walter's web sites have also added a great deal to my plane.
So with that said .......like noses and other body parts ........everyone
has an opinion. Some I like and others I think stink.
>him and his work, EXCEPT in one case from one "customer".
| Quote: | >You guessed it . someone decided he wasn't quick enough and started
bitching
and badmouthing the guy right here on the RV list, for a FREE service.
Dan Checkoway has provided more free and helpful services than anyone else
I
can think of, (with the possible exceptions of Randy Levold and Sam
Buchanon) on or off the RV list. His website is probably the best reference
anywhere in existence about building an RV; his articles in Kit Planes
magazine are excellent, and now I see he is conducting workshops with
SportAir on building RV's for those who want to get a taste of what is in
store for them. He has provided for free this great site for checking and
decoding weather information. Now he has enhanced and expanded it into a
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Idaho Falls
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Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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I wonder how many people who are complaining that Dan moved his content to premium status made a contribution to his effort back when there was just a tiny link there asking people to donate?
All the time I hear -- appropriately so -- "I can't thank Dan enough" for either the default instruction manual or his various applications.
But apparently they can...they just don't want to.
[quote]If you don't like the fact Dan isn't giving you something for nothing, have the good sense to shut up about it. You just sound ridiculous with your complaining. Do not archive. [b]
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fstringham
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:42 am Post subject: Weathermeister (SPAM) |
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Bob
You are right.....but.......apples to oranges......price is one
FACT.....some ones cost vs bennefit (to them a fact) is another.
Out for ever on this one
Frank (at) SGU and SLC
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Reply-To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
To: <rv-list(at)matronics.com>
Subject: Re: Weathermeister (SPAM)
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:33:16 -0600
>So with that said .......like noses and other body parts ........everyone
>has an opinion. Some I like and others I think stink.
>
>Frank (at) SGU and SLC
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Everyone certainly is entitled to their own opinion, Frank, but not their
own facts.
OPINION:
>Dan has created a MASTERPIECE!!! Weathermeister.com is a FREE web-based
>tool that will absolutely change the way you currently get your weather
>infomation when flying locally or coast-to-coast in your RV.
FACT:
>But it's NOT FREE anymore???!!! With the 'free' function it will no
>longer remember your location or allow you to set a radius . .. Without
>the $5.00 per month fee it doesn't even do route weather.
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