Software delivers weather data to cockpit.
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WSI InFlight® v4.1 provides all functionality in single window with standard controls for zooming and panning as well as handling of looping functionality. Time and altitude sliders allow user to select past, present, and forecasted conditions at various altitudes. Cloud tops IR satellite imagery is available at 8 altitudes showing cloud cover at and above selected altitude as well as surface analyses depicting major synoptic weather features.
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WSI Corporation Announces Latest WSI InFlight® Release
Leader in cockpit weather enhances electronic flight bag application
ANDOVER, Mass., July 15 /-- WSI Corporation (http://www.wsi.com/) today announced the release of WSI InFlight(R) Version 4.1, the latest version of WSI InFlight software designed to enhance and simplify the user experience in the cockpit while offering even more weather data. All functionality is now available within a single window featuring standard controls for zooming and panning as well as a more elegant handling of looping functionality. Controls for displaying weather information types have been simplified and time and altitude 'sliders' are now available allowing users to easily select past, present and forecasted conditions at various altitudes. "With the release of 4.1 we have dramatically improved the user experience over our previous versions," stated Paul Devlin, Product Manager of Business Aviation. "These improvements are a direct result of customer input."
Additionally, more WSI weather data is now available for display in WSI InFlight 4.1. Cloud tops infrared satellite imagery is now available at eight altitudes showing cloud cover at and above the selected altitude as well as surface analyses depicting major synoptic weather features. Also new to the WSI InFlight software is an icing product that depicts areas of probable icing and its severity at fifteen altitudes up to FL240 and highlights areas of supercooled large droplet (SLD) icing. "No other service offers this critical operational information. WSI will continue to identify and deliver informational products that will increase weather situational awareness," continued Devlin.
WSI InFlight 4.1 software, for use with EFBs and Windows XP computers, can be activated for a one time fee of $595. In order to take full advantage of all of the features of WSI InFlight 4.1, WSI is now offering a Premium level weather data package. The WSI Premium package contains all of the weather information available on the WSI InFlight broadcast including WSI PIREPs and Icing for one low fee. Available for $849 annually, WSI Premium is only $70.75 per month. Current WSI InFlight customers who are in the process of transitioning to the new AV-300 series systems and have an active subscription are eligible for special pricing. WSI InFlight 4.1 is available at no cost to all current WSI InFlight 4.0 license holders. Go to www.wsi.com/fly/software to download WSI InFlight 4.1.
About WSI InFlight
WSI InFlight provides a continuous stream of aviation weather information to your portable or panel-mounted display with complete coverage and content for the majority of North America and the Caribbean at any altitude. WSI InFlight delivers the most accurate, up-to-date weather and related mission critical aviation information to any aircraft equipped with the WSI InFlight antenna and receiver including the industry's highest quality radar mosaic, WSI NOWrad(R), Radar Summary with storm cell height, speed of movement and direction, lightning data from the long range United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN), cloud tops and Canadian radar. WSI's aviation weather content also delivers icing levels, surface analyses, winds and temperatures aloft, graphical and textual METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, TFRs, PIREPs and city forecasts directly to the cockpit.
About WSI Corporation
WSI Corporation is the world's leading provider of weather-driven business solutions for professionals in the aviation, media and energy markets. WSI provides the world's most innovative and trusted decision-support solutions for aviation professionals through every phase of flight. WSI's pre-flight briefing solutions include WSI Pilotbrief(R) which was recently voted #1 by professional pilots for the 9th year in a row. Daily, thousands of aviation professionals around the world trust the WSI Pilotbrief system, at the nation's top FBOs and corporate flight departments and the WSI InFlight(R) cockpit weather system to provide them with the necessary information to plan safe flights. WSI also supplies cockpit weather services via the Flight Information Service for the FAA pilot programs involving Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B), including Capstone and SafeFlight 21. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts with offices in Birmingham, England, WSI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Landmark Communications, Inc.
For more information call (800) USA-2FLY, or visit: www.wsi.com/.
