Inflight Weather
Hi all
I have searched and either I'm terrible at searching (a distinct possibility) or this hasn't been asked. Apologies if I've missed it.
Can any Australian pilots give me some useful advice on receiving weather, winds aloft, weather radar etc. at higher altitudes where there is no mobile reception. My aircraft has an XM subscription which is great for the US but useless here. No Garmin avionics, it's an IS&S system so something handheld that feeds the iPad would be what I'd need.
As an example, I was cruising along at FL360 the other day, beating into 120kt headwinds (80 more than forecast) and only had 2 hour old data on my iPad so didn't know if I should try higher or lower,
Is there a way to achieve this reliably that doesn't cost a bomb?
And as an aside, why don't we get XM in Australia?
Thanks in advance.