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73 In-Cockpit Weather and WeatherSpork app for Private and Instrument Pilots – Scott Dennstaedt Live Interview

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🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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73 In-Cockpit Weather and WeatherSpork app for Private and Instrument Pilots – Scott Dennstaedt Live Interview

Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance.

Max interviews Scott Dennstaedt, a former National Weather Service research meteorologist talks about how to become a meteorologist, and about the new weather products available in cockpit from SiriusXM and ADS-B In weather services. He also talks about SkewT and the WeatherSpork app for training and trip planning.

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Yeah, so Stormscope is obviously real time.

0:04.0

I mean, you're going to, if a lightning strike happens, you're going to see it instantly shown on your display.

0:09.0

I remember one time we were waiting for our thunderstorms to roll through, and we were sitting there taxing,

0:14.0

and all of a sudden out of nowhere, we got this lightning strike, literally probably within a mile of where we were,

0:20.0

and it showed right next to our airplane, where we were got our attention so that's

0:25.7

real-time stuff so that when you're in real-time mode in Storm Scopes you have to

0:29.7

understand how to interpret them it's not like out of the box easy to interpret per se

0:33.6

so it's good idea to get training I see if the video is coming up here.

0:40.9

All right, super. I think we are ready to roll.

0:44.1

Three, two, one.

0:49.3

Well, hello, and welcome to aviation news talk. I'm your host, Max Trescott. If you're new to our show, we have a regular weekly show in which we talk about general aviation as well as

0:55.8

give tips for pilots and offer skills that they may be able to hopefully, you know, use someday,

1:02.2

maybe even the safe of their life. And we are doing something different today. We are operating

1:07.3

live from the grounds of Air Venture in Ashkosh, Wisconsin. And we are in the

1:13.1

Lightspeed tent. Now, I want to thank Lightspeed very much for making room for us to put on this

1:18.4

broadcast today. And you can see literally people are behind us. They're checking out headsets and

1:23.2

talking about the different headsets they have and so on. So again, I want to thank them for

1:27.3

offering us space in the tent. And I should just mention, I've been using Lightspeed headsets they have and so on. So again, I want to thank them for offering us space in the tent.

1:28.8

And I should just mention, I've been using light speed headsets for almost 20 years, I would imagine.

1:33.8

I've traded up different models and currently have three different ones, which I use,

1:38.2

which is great.

1:38.7

As a flight instructor, you never know when somebody comes along and says, hey, we need some help here. So if you are not

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