Lightning Ahead! Avidyne Brings Sferics Back to the Cockpit in 21st Century Style <br/>(Recorded Live at Sun ‘n Fun 2008)

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Key Takeaways:

  • Avidyne is launching a new state-of-the-art lightning detector system called TWX670.
  • The TWX670 aims to revitalize Sferics technology for navigating convective weather, which has been overshadowed by datalinked weather.
  • This new system detects and plots distant lightning strikes, uniquely displaying them as color-coded, cell-like patterns to indicate threat levels.
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For the past five years, Sferics technology has taken a backseat to datalinked weather as a means of skirting convective weather. But Avidyne hopes to change that with the introduction of a new state-of-the-art lightning detector system called TWX670. Like Stormscope and Strike Finder technology, it detects and plots distant lightning strikes, but unlike earlier equipment, it paints strikes in cell-like patterns color-coded by threat level. AVweb‘s Paul Bertorelli talked to Tom Harper from Avidyne about this new product.

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