WSI InFlight® Selected for L-3 Communications' SmartDeck®
Graphic data-link weather incorporated in new integrated flight control and display system for General Aviation
ANDOVER, MA, September 25, 2007 - WSI Corporation today announced that the WSI InFlight® broadcast cockpit weather service has been selected by L-3 Communications Avionics Systems to depict North American weather information on their new SmartDeck® Integrated Flight Controls and Display System. SmartDeck integrates navigation and weather along with traffic avoidance, terrain avoidance, communications, flight controls, engine monitoring and enhanced vision into a single ‘easy-to-use’ system. The WSI system will be offered as standard option to general aviation aircraft OEMs.
“I am pleased that L-3 has selected WSI InFlight for their integrated avionics suite recognizing the value that WSI delivers with high quality, aviation specific weather information, said Jim Menard, General Manager of WSI’s Aviation business group. “It is becoming apparent in the marketplace that data-link weather is a must-have for any new aircraft cockpit and with WSI InFlight available on the new SmartDeck platform, pilots will benefit from enhanced situational awareness.”
“L-3 has worked with WSI for some time,” said Larry Riddle, Vice President of Business Development for L-3 Communications. “It was natural to extend the relationship to our next generation SmartDeck platform based on WSI’s performance, quality, and customer feedback. Our joint desire to improve the safety and efficiency of flight operations makes the WSI InFlight service a perfect fit with our suite of avionics safety technologies.”
The SmartDeck implementation of WSI InFlight will include WSI NOWrad®, the industry’s leading depiction of precipitation over the United States, Canadian Radar, EchoTops, Lightning, METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs and SIGMETs as well as TFRs with more weather products anticipated in the future. The WSI InFlight weather broadcast will be received on board SmartDeck equipped aircraft by the AV700 system built by the L-3 Aviation Recorders division. SmartDeck, with WSI InFlight functionality, will be on display this week at the NBAA tradeshow in Atlanta. Demonstrations will be conducted by L-3 in booth #603.
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® 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® 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
About L-3 Communications – Avionics Systems
L-3 Avionics Systems has been providing industry-leading, safety-enhancing avionics
technologies to aviation markets for more than 45 years. The company, which
is known for bringing cost-effective and advanced technologies to the industry,
has recently introduced the SmartDeck® Integrated Flight Controls and Display
System, a next-generation avionics suite and the industry’s most intuitive
and cost-effective full cockpit system. Additionally, the company continues
to provide a wide array of avionics safety technologies, such as the GH-3000
electronic and J.E.T.® standby instruments, SkyWatch® collision avoidance
system, Stormscope® lightning detection system and the IRIS™ Infrared
Imaging System, while customizing the smartest GA flight system available, SmartDeck,
for the next generation of aircraft.
For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.L-3Avionics.com.
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