Will a laptop or other portable equipment receive and display Mode S radar info?

("Webdaddy" wrote)
You could subscribe to Flight Explorer Personal Edition (10 Hours a
month) for $8.95 and then purchase a Verizon EVDO card and subscribe to
that service for $89.95 a month. Works well below 12500 ft. only problem
is that the data displayed is 10 minutes delayed due the the security
situation. Thats what I do and it works fine. A little pricey at $100 a
month but I need both of the features for work so it works out for me.


10 minute delay? That's already 20 miles (one way) at only 120 mph.

Is this still useful info? Curious about this feature.


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote
10 minute delay? That's already 20 miles (one way) at only 120 mph.

Is this still useful info? Curious about this feature.


Montblack

But the key factor is how far a storm night move; not very far. As long as
the radar view is reasonably wide coverage, it should help in steering
around storm cells. Better than nothing, and not too expensive.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote

"wihout his glasses on" g

**** how far a storm (m)ight move****

That makes more sense, right?
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" radar)
But the key factor is how far a storm night move; not very far. As long
as
the radar view is reasonably wide coverage, it should help in steering
around storm cells. Better than nothing, and not too expensive.


I guess I was focused in on the Mode S radar info as positioning other
'aircraft' on a screen - with the
10 minute delay.

Maybe I missed the (flying)boat here and it's 90% a weather radar system...?


Montblack
First rain showers of the season. Heavy and steady rain all morning in the
Twin Cities - yard snow finally all gone today. Only the biggest cul-de-sac
snow piles are still hanging on.

Montblack wrote:

("Morgans" radar)

But the key factor is how far a storm night move; not very far. As
long as
the radar view is reasonably wide coverage, it should help in steering
around storm cells. Better than nothing, and not too expensive.



I guess I was focused in on the Mode S radar info as positioning other
'aircraft' on a screen - with the
10 minute delay.

Mode S radar will not give the pilot any weather info. It can't, unless
the FAA has now mandated Mr. Weather to have a mode C transponder in his
cloud. Weather info comes from primary radar.

radar

kage wrote:
radar

I got a primary hit, but I'm not seeing your squawk or mode/C.
Please recycle your transponder.