Original Message

I have had many complaints from pilots when we removed the xm sirrus sat garmin gdl 69 units from our small birds for the lynx 9000 transponder with adsb IN.  the coverage was 110 times better with sat service thru the gdl system unless you were blasting thru under a towering cloud top....but the same wx coverage via adsb varies at different alts and your range to a station putting out that info (ground based) can limit your experience to about 0-10% usage ability.

Our GOM pilots hate it that we ripped their gdl's out for a crappy spotty FIS-B wx service via a small unusable interface touch screen on that 9000.

stay away till it gets better.  keep a sat based unit if you have it and pay the subscription.