Pilot My-Cast Adds Canadian WX
Digital Cyclone, Inc., a subsidiary
of Garmin Ltd.), now offers AOPA Airport Directory data and
Canadian radar, METARs and TAFs on Pilot My-Cast by Garmin, a cell
phone based product that provides critical aviation weather data
and flight planning services. This content is in addition to the
U.S. weather and flight filing data already available on Pilot
My-Cast.
Pilot My-Cast is compatible with many popular phone models, such
as BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices, and is available from all
major wireless carriers in the U.S. including AT&T, Sprint,
Verizon, Alltel, as well as Handmark and Handango. “Pilot
My-Cast is an indispensable tool to those who fly regularly,”
said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing.
“It makes it extremely easy to check the weather, make
educated go or no-go decisions, and file a flight plan, all
directly from your cell phone.”
AOPA’s Airport Directory is now available on Pilot My-Cast
and includes information for over 5,300 public-use airports and
more than 7,000 FBOs, such as pilot services, ground
transportation, lodging, restaurants, and local attractions. Also
new to Pilot My-Cast is Canadian weather information from the
Environment Canada weather service that includes radar, METARs and
TAFs. The Canadian weather is in addition to the National Weather
Service (NWS) data that is available for any location in the U.S.
such as NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, PIREPs, visible and
infrared satellite loops, lightning, winds aloft, area forecasts
(FA), TFRs, and more. Weather information is displayed in either
text or graphical format, and some information – METARs,
winds aloft, PIREPs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, TFRs – is presented in
both text and graphical formats for easy interpretation.
Pilot My-Cast is unique because its data is transmitted directly
from the foremost providers – NWS and Environment Canada, as
well as aviation data from the Federal Aviation Administration. By
offering data directly from prominent sources, pilots can be
confident that the weather and flight planning information they
receive is up-to-date and accurate. Pilot My-Cast was the first to
offer the ability to file a flight plan using the phone’s
keypad to type in the flight plan data. This easy-to-use flight
filing feature stores the most recently filed flight plan, which
means pilots only need to alter information that has changed from
the last time they filed. When the pilot is ready to submit the
plan, a few keystrokes will automatically send the information to
the DUATs provider.
Customers can subscribe to Pilot My-Cast by Garmin for $9.95 per
month.