Satcom Direct Now Supports Graphical Weather for Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Integrated Flight Deck

Satellite Beach, Fla. (Vocus) June 9, 2010

Satcom Direct, a leading innovator of satellite voice, fax, datalink, and Internet communications solutions, has added graphical weather to its existing FlightDeck Freedom? (FDF) service for aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21? Integrated Flight Information System (IFIS).

Aircraft types that use the Pro Line 21 Integrated Flight Information System include the Bombardier Challenger 300 and 605; the Cessna CJ1+, CJ2+, CJ3, CJ4, Encore+, and XLS+; the Gulfstream G150?; and the Hawker 750, 800XP, 850XP, and 900XP. Using FlightDeck Freedom, aircraft operators will have access to a variety of graphical weather products, showing actual or forecast weather conditions.

?Availability of global graphical weather completes the integration of Pro Line 21 into our FlightDeck Freedom suite of services. FDF customers now have access to all of the datalink capabilities offered on the Rockwell Collins platform,? said Jim Jensen, founder and owner of Satcom Direct. ?By adding graphical weather information to our FlightDeck Freedom service, our customers now have access to current visual weather data, which can help them make more informed decisions about changes in altitude or if they need to route around adverse weather.?

Graphical weather selections for Pro Line 21 that are available with FlightDeck Freedom include:

????NEXRAD ? available in U.S. only ? shows radar summary with position and intensity of precipitation
????NEXRAD with Tops/Movement ? available in U.S. only ? displays radar data with indication of altitude of echo tops and direction of movement
????Weather Depiction ? available worldwide ? displays CATMET (categorical METAR), a color-coded weather depiction chart indicating flight rule conditions (IFR or VFR) for a variety of airports
????Winds ? available worldwide ? displays forecast wind direction, speed, and temperature; winds may be requested for various flight levels, forecast times, and world regions
????Icing ? available worldwide ? displays areas where aircraft icing is most likely to occur; icing may be requested for various flight levels, forecast times, and world regions
????Turbulence ? available worldwide ? indicates where Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) is most likely to occur; turbulence may be requested for various flight levels, forecast times, and world regions

About Satcom Direct

Founded in 1997, Satcom Direct is the leading innovator of satellite voice, fax, and broadband data service solutions for business and general aviation, military, government, emergency response, media, and other industries that demand secure and reliable global communications. Its primary product, Global One Number?, is an advanced connection service for aeronautical, maritime, and land mobile applications that makes satellite communications as reliable and simple to use as ground-based telephones. Satcom Direct?s extensive product portfolio also includes Aero V(SM), Aero X?, FlightDeck Freedom? (FDF), One View?, Plane Simple?, Satcom OnSite, and SD Flight Tracker; Inmarsat?s Classic Voice, Swift 64, and SwiftBroadband; Iridium Aero Services; and ViaSat? Yonder(SM) Ku-band Mobile Broadband. For more information regarding Satcom Direct, visit satcomdirect.com, e-mail sales(at)satcomdirect(dot)com, or call +1.321.777.3000. To view Satcom Direct?s portable satellite communication equipment and services, including satellite phones and BGAN units, visit http://www.satcomstore.com, e-mail mobileops(at)satcomdirect(dot)com, or call +1.321.777.0771.

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Innovative New Weather Website Offers Personalized Weather Forecasts For Outdoor Enthusiasts

Syracuse, NY (PRWEB) November 2, 2010

Huntlogix, LLC launches a new weather website, http://www.ScoutLookWeather.com , designed with the outdoor enthusiast in mind. The website provides detailed weather statistics for an array of outdoor activities, Hunting, Fishing, Golf, Skiing, Boating, Water Activities, Camping and Outdoor Adventure. ScoutLook?s mission is to offer customized weather forecasts that are specific to your individual outdoor activity of choice, including detailed reports, forecasts and weather mapping, in a creative, simple and uncluttered format that will enhance your performance in any of your outdoor activities. Not only will ScoutLook give you the weather just the way you want to see it, but it will also offer you useful content to help you better hunt, fish, and plan for all of your outdoor pursuits.

Founders, Bill Little & Cy Weichert, avid outdoorsmen themselves, have a vision to provide a weather service that will give people the ability to obtain activity-specific weather information at a far more granular level than previously available. The site also incorporates a ScentConeSM mapping tool that delivers wind speed and direction forecasts with precision down to any location you plan to hunt. According to Bill Little, ?ScoutLook uses geocodes to tag your specific location of interest in order to provide weather reports and forecasts that go far beyond the zip code level provided by most other services. Users will be able to save exact locations on a satellite/terrain map, enabling precise weather reports based on much more granular forecast data than zip code level. You can also save locations of interest for swift retrieval across all activities.?

In addition to providing the finest possible and most detailed meteorological data with state of the art weather mapping, ScoutLook will provide a vast array of other content. Little says, ?We will greatly enhance the user experience by including free photo archiving, sharing and management capabilities and free solunar tables for your use. In addition, we have a pro-staff of wildlife biologists, professional athletes, hunters, fishermen and other subject matter experts that will supply tips and techniques to help you improve your game.?

According to Cy Weichert, ?We all know that weather impacts everything we do in the outdoors, and in very different ways from sport to sport?..the goal of Scoutlook is to help people plan for their activity by providing them all the condition information that will affect it. Our content will be especially attractive to people who are very serious about the outdoors?..there was nothing out there quite like it, so we decided to create it.? You can get the weather just the way you want it at http://www.ScoutLookWeather.com

HuntLogix, LLC founded in 2010, is committed to creating online and mobile tools for outdoor enthusiasts.

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