|
Integrated display specialist Sandel, to
add WSI aviation weather capability to products for a complete
solution
Press Contact :: Learn
More ::
PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 30, 2003 - WSI Corp. and
Sandel Avionics, Inc. today announced plans to integrate WSI
InFlight with Sandel’s line of situational awareness
displays. The FAA-certified WSI InFlight aviation weather
system will improve safety by delivering WSI NOWrad® radar
mosaic weather imagery and other mission critical aviation
weather information on the Sandel display.
“WSI InFlight will significantly increase the operational
and safety benefits delivered by Sandel’s products.
As Sandel moves forward, we will be able to bring together
functions such as HSI, RMI, TAWS, and navigation maps with
data-link weather graphics onto a single unit,” said
Gerry Block, President of Sandel. “One of Sandel’s
board members has been flying with WSI InFlight and finds
it to be a superb situational awareness system,” continued
Block.
“WSI is pleased to be selected by Sandel as its cockpit
weather system and to be associated with another market leading
avionics display manufacturer. Sandel provides general aviation,
corporate and regional airline customers with fantastic solutions
that affordably improve the safety and utility of flight operations,”
said Lynne Wilson, Executive Vice President of WSI’s
Aviation and Marine Business Group.
The WSI InFlight system uses satellite technology to continuously
broadcast the most accurate, up-to-date weather and related
mission critical information to any aircraft equipped with
WSI's special purpose antenna and receiver. WSI InFlight delivers
the industry’s highest quality radar mosaic, WSI’s
NOWrad®, depicting areas of rain, snow and mixed precipitation,
along with echo tops and movement, graphical and textual surface
observations (METARs) and Terminal Area Forecasts (TAFs),
plotted SIGMETs and AIRMETs direct to the cockpit. WSI InFlight
builds on the strength of WSI’s Pilotbrief service,
trusted and used daily by thousands of aviation professionals
in corporate flight departments, FBO’s, major and regional
airlines, and FAA Flight Service Stations. WSI Pilotbrief
was again voted the #1 weather briefing service in Professional
Pilot magazine’s annual reader poll for the fifth year
in a row.
About Sandel Avionics
Sandel Avionics Inc., a privately held company in Vista, California,
specializes in providing compact integrated display systems
for General Aviation, Business Aviation, and Airlines. For more
information, please call 877-726-3357 or visit the Sandel website
at www.sandel.com.
About WSI Corporation
WSI Corporation is the world's leading provider of mission critical
weather-driven solutions for professionals in the aviation,
media and energy markets, and also serves officials in government
agencies at both the federal and state levels. WSI is headquartered
in Billerica, Massachusetts with offices in Birmingham, England,
and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Landmark Communications.
The company can be found on the web at www.wsi.com.
For more information, please contact:
Ken Kochi
Sandel Avionics
(760) 727-4900
kkochi@sandel.com
|
|
David Laubner
WSI Corporation
(978) 983-6735
dlaubner@wsi.com
|
|
|
