REFLECTOR:Storm Scope Probe

[Dave Scharfenberg]

I occasionally fly a King Air 200 equipped with the Bendix / King display
that shows radar images similar to a DTN screen.  I think the signal is
uplinked from the ground.  It always works well and is great for getting the
big picture, which is what we need for avoiding the weather completely.  The
unit also displays onboard radar, traffic, terrain, metars, moving map,
stormscope returns, and probably some stuff I haven't found yet.

Dave Scharfenberg


  on 6/11/03 9:30 AM, Alexander Balic at alex157@direcway.com wrote:

> I was also, thinking
> about Bob Wood's suggestion about the Satellite weather downlink- it looks
> really good, but my concern about it is that you are relying on your weather
> data from an external source, and perhaps it is on a different frequency
> than other satellite links, but I know that my sat TV, and my Sat internet
> uplink both go down during bad weather, so I would have some concern about
> reception of the signals just when you really need them most..... anyone
> have any experience with that? I'd like to hear about it, because if the
> signals are reliable in lightning infested areas, then maybe it would be a
> good alternative.