Wed, Apr 14, 2004
New Service Adds Aged Spherics To Popular Portable Weather
System
Control Vision Corp.,
makers of the award-winning Anywhere Map and Anywhere
Wx portable moving map and weather systems, and Meteorlogix,
LLC, distributors of precision weather data, announced the
introduction of lightning data for Anywhere Wx systems.
After NEXRAD (the color-coded weather intensity data we're used
to seeing), lightning is the second most important data to have for
avoiding catastrophic weather while enroute. By seeing the location
of NEXRAD and lightning on the moving map, the pilot has a powerful
tool for circumnavigating areas of bad weather and continuing the
flight safely. Meteorlogix supplies the data to Control Vision's
web servers via satellite. Pilots retrieve the data while enroute,
as often as every 5 minutes using the Globalstar Satellite
network.
The lightning data is displayed on the moving map in three
colors that depict a rolling twenty-minute time period. Purple
icons are strikes within the last 5 minutes, red are 6-10 minutes
old, and yellow are 11-20 minutes old.
Jay Humbard, President and CEO of Control Vision commented:
"Lightning adds a new dimension to our already successful weather
product. Having flown many hours with the system in IFR conditions,
and using feedback from our 900+ weather customers, we know that
NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs, and Satellite Imagery allow the pilot
strategic and tactical enroute flight management in and around
weather. With the addition of lightning strikes, we complete
another critical piece of this puzzle, keeping the pilot out of
harm's way while allowing the flight to continue."
Existing customers can add lightning to their Anywhere Wx system
for $75 per year. Complete Anywhere Wx systems begin at under $2200
and ongoing subscriptions are only $195 per year, to which the
lightning fee is added.
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