by Jeb Burnside

A lot of technology is available to piston pilots these days. This includes certified glass-panel displays in new airplanes to gee-whiz, almost-real-time weather graphics displayed on the same laptop computer used to play MP3s over the ship’s audio system. Some of the portable products available to the GA aircraft owner and pilot these days are truly revolutionary and can literally mean being able to complete a marginal-weather trip safely and reliably instead of holing up somewhere and waiting for the bad stuff to pass. …