OldPilot, thanks for the responsive reply. For the rest of the forum my reply is,
My Comanche is older than I am, going on 57. My car is 17 years old. My house is about 80 years old. My Comanche only has steam gauges and a old GNC300XL. No high dollar stuff. If I was wealthy,I wouldn't even be here, because I'd have all the latest gee wiz stuff installed in my late model Cirrus. Since I not, I get by with a old Comanche and apps like iFly, and Droid EFB. The first app that does it all, is the app I'm moving to. I hope its iFly. Save a few dollars.
I uses EFB apps such as iFly to keep it cheap.
I'm going with the GTX345 cause it a few dollars cheaper than the Lynx. I had to wait for an "all in one" (Integrated ADS/WAAS) solution because I'm not going to pay for a high dollar Garmin 430W to get the ADS required WAAS.
For me, the dollar investment I'm going to make in the next month or so is worth it just for the traffic. This is a safety enhancement. Lawton-Fort Sill area is surrounded by 4 Air Force Bases that are heavely involved with Pilot training. Most of the traffic is small fast movers that are hard to see. There have been a couple of collusion between GA and Military Training flights in the last 10 years and I don't want to be the next.
I've been using XM weather since it was available (on Anywheremap PDA). If I never had XM weather, I'd probable would be satisfied with ADS-B weather. However, now I know what I'm missing and find the extra weather XM products a necessary tool when I'm do my long cross country flights.
I remember reading AOPA articles discussing ADS weather back before it was fielded. AOPA lobbied the FAA to output "limited" weather so as to entice pilots/owners to add an ADS system. Pilot had to get something for our many thousands of dollar investment. I believe he example case was the Mode C transponder, which cost us thousand with nothing for it. In my opinion, the weather products were "limited" so as not to compete with the other inflight weather services like XM. I'd like nothing better that to see ADS-B weather have the same products as XM, so I could then save a few dollars.
Fly Safe, be happy.