Wed, Jul 28, 2004
Can We Pick Cool Sponsors... Or What?
OK... you've heard our reports about all the work we're doing
and how grateful we are that ten really cool companies ponied up to
the task of sponsoring this immense effort. With nearly a dozen of
the best fly-writers in the biz to take care of, ya just gotta know
that this is a massive and expensive undertaking... heck, the beer
bill alone... well, never mind.
It ain't a pretty story.
However, we're truly thrilled that long-time ANN Sponsor
ControlVision is helping us out this year...especially
when they're making so much cool news of the their own!
The message from Control Vision is clear:
There's no excuse to not have datalink weather in your cockpit.
Sure, years ago when Radar and Stormscopes were state-of-the-art
the numbers weren't exactly compelling: $40,000 for a radar system,
$6,000 or more for a Stormscope. For that kind of money you could
buy a new airplane.
A talented group of
engineers at Control Vision decided that NEXRAD, METARs and TAFs
shouldn't be restricted to weather terminals at FBOs but should
accompany a pilot throughout his flight. It should be fast,
reliable, easy to use and above all AFFORDABLE.
That's how Anywhere Wx came to be.
Award-winning Anywhere Map is one of the finest moving map GPS
systems available to pilots. Its features rival those of $20,000
panel-mounted displays and exceed most. It's now available on HP
iPAQ Pocket PCs, Anywhere XP, a Windows XP version of Anywhere Map
for tablet and laptop PCs, and the new micro-tablet RAVEN,
described as a super PDA but actually much more.
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