Weather display

I have a GDL 69 feeding my IFD 540 for XM weather; I have a separate XM weather subscription for a yoke mounted Garmin 696. I was just up in BC, Canada and found that the 696 would show NEXRAD weather in Canada for a couple hundred miles north of the border, where the 540 showed only green hash marks. In the U.S., the 540 works as expected, except that the 696 will depict SIGMETS, which don't show on the 540.

Why would this be? I'm not sure whether this is an Avidyne issue or an XM issue, but there doesn't seem to be an option on the 540 to display SIGMETS or Canada NEXRAD.

Thanks... that's a handy reference. But since I have XM Aviator on both subscriptions (I just checked to be sure), seems like I do still have a problem. I ought to be getting Canadian radar at least. (With Aviator XM, SIGMETS do show on the 696, though on the reference chart that isn't an option for the 540. Why not?) There is an option for Puerto Rico radar on the 540, though I haven't checked out whether that's working.

Not so obvious, since I can't find that button! The bottom left LSK, for weather overlay, includes PR radar, U.S. radar, METARS, and one or two other items (not looking at it at the moment), but NOT Canadian radar or Canadian weather.

Steve,

Jake - any more thoughts on my original issue? Where should I go to find answers?

No comment.

Scott - I also had to update the software (firmware?) on the GDL 69, but after doing so it does display radar (except in Canada).

Hi All, sorry it started working a little bit after i wrote that post. Thanks a lot.

Can you upload or send a picture of this page?  I'm looking for your "CN WxRadar" field in the top left corner of the product ages.

Push the "Select Software" button, and continue pushing until you get "Select Datalink".

frankbell wrote: I've been paying for the "Aviator" service, but it shows up on my unit as "Aviator Lite"... hence no Canadian radar. I'm working on fixing that.

By the way, you can subscribe to "Mariner" or "Master Mariner" data and get the same features as "Aviator Lite" and "Aviator" for less money.  They don't charge the boaters as much as they charge the pilots. (Yes, the boaters get winds aloft data and TFRs and everything.)

David Bunin

Edited by DavidBunin - 21 Aug 2015 at 8:20am

Oh boy, you're right.  Looks like the link was broken.  I'll see if that (and others) can be restored and we'll post an update when they are.

Jack Seubert wrote: Steve, I was trying to find out which weather products are displayed with the various packages when using the GDL-69.  I have the Aviator LT package and it does not have TAF's.  It seems to me that there was a table somewhere that listed all the possibilities but I can't find it anymore, possibly the link was lost with the new web page or something.  Can you help on that. Jack

Okay, the link has been restored.   Look for the Compatible Weather Interfaces item on the right side of this page:   http://www.avidyne.com/products/ifd/index.html

AviJake wrote: Yes, that's the plan.   For the Cirrus owners who have the EX5000 big screen MFD and the XMD-076A, a future release of the IFD440/540 should support it.     We did not include that in Release 10.2.0.0 for a project scope management reason since it's still available on the big format MFD.  But we want to add it to the 440/540s in the not-too-distant future.