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I used it this way in the past 3 days: I selected HWO and ORL and was
notified when vis was less than 5miles, ceilings less than 3000 ft and winds over 12 knots. This painted a picture for me on a trip to do a seminar. I noted the times of weather issues and estimated when I could depart for home. Then, when the seminar was over I called for a standard route briefing, noting if it deviated from the routine I had read from my cell. It didn't so I departed about the time I expected. I don't know that this does more than add to the total amount of information worth knowing but that in itself is worth having. The problem I see for a paid service is that with the G1000, we'll have this info and more. That wouldn't be your target market, obviously. There will be plenty of aircraft without Nexrad via Satellite, however. I would suggest graphics at some point, either stills or, preferable, loops (such as those on the ADDS site). The other thing is that I'd like to be able to specify a trip profile - that is, a series of stations submitted at once for monitoring 2, 3 or 4 days. The easier to enter, the better. But, I'm not complaining. I knew what to expect and when to plan a departure and your metar reports helped build the picture. Thanks. Mike |
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On 1 Sep 2005 17:10:29 -0700, "Mike Long" wrote:
I used it this way in the past 3 days: I selected HWO and ORL and was notified when vis was less than 5miles, ceilings less than 3000 ft and winds over 12 knots. This painted a picture for me on a trip to do a seminar. I noted the times of weather issues and estimated when I could depart for home. Then, when the seminar was over I called for a standard route briefing, noting if it deviated from the routine I had read from my cell. It didn't so I departed about the time I expected. I don't know that this does more than add to the total amount of information worth knowing but that in itself is worth having. The problem I see for a paid service is that with the G1000, we'll have this info and more. That wouldn't be your target market, obviously. There will be plenty of aircraft without Nexrad via Satellite, however. I would suggest graphics at some point, either stills or, preferable, loops (such as those on the ADDS site). The other thing is that I'd like to be able to specify a trip profile - that is, a series of stations submitted at once for monitoring 2, 3 or 4 days. The easier to enter, the better. But, I'm not complaining. I knew what to expect and when to plan a departure and your metar reports helped build the picture. Thanks. Mike Mike - Thanks for taking the time to post your experiences with wxnotice.com. 1. I don't see wxnotice.com competing with the G1000 or any simuliar in-cockpit system. wxnotice.com is service (IMO) for pilots to monitorthe wx when they are *not* filying; such as while on a trip or getting ready to take a trip. Several customers (testers at this point) have written me saying they like the ability while out on a trip to monitor their home airport while out doing things in the destination city. As long as they don't get a txt msg they know the wx is pretty decent at the home airport, so they have more peace of mind. 2. Graphics is on my list to offer. I'm hoping my design of using 'push' technology will be seen as being far superior to trying to use your cell phone key pad to log onto the internet and navigate thru a bunch of menus to get to the satellite pic you are interested in. I tried that with another service and hated using it that way. It actually gave me the idea of developing my own service but using 'push' technology. I'm trying to develop the capability to 'push' to your cell phone a .jpg picture of the satellite image you want. 3. Good suggestion on the 'batch' creation for a group of a airports. Mike you can do this already - here's how: When finished creating a Metar WxNotification record, go back into the edit mode with this record and use the Copy To New Record button. This will make an exact copy of this record and all you have to do is change the airport name. You can stay on this screen and make more records all with the same parameters and all you have to do is just change the airport name each time. Try it out. I think you'll see this meets your suggestion. If not please let me know at Ralph |
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