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.

FMI: www.controlvision.com