What happened to DAL1889

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Many aircraft equipped with Wi-Fi could easily connect to any number of ground-based weather sources and display it on a mobile device such as an iPad. Regulatory restrictions currently make such devices difficult to approve for inflight use.

SiriusXM has been broadcasting NEXRAD and other weather information over their satellites for nearly a decade now. And they sell aviation-approved receivers through Garmin and others. Won't this work on a commercial craft? Or would rain fade in the SDARS band (~2.3 GHz) be the issue here?

https://www.siriusxm.com/sxmaviation

There's a difference between being approved for general aviation and being approved for commercial air carrier (Part 135) use.

Reception would be even less of an issue for commercial carriers since they are rarely not above all significant precip.

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