Weatherlink

[peabody]

While at the Venice RC meeting last evening, a motion was passed to upgrade their existing DavisŪ Weather Station to offer Internet access for field weather that is updated every 5 minutes, The whole thing would be around $1500 I guess.
Check out www.weatherlink.com . If you establish and account with username and password you can view a US map that has Weatherlink sites. The nearest to our field is the Manatee County Administration building. The display is pretty interesting and encompasses most of the information that we want when making a decision about heading to the field.

Kinda neat!

[Steve Helmick]

$1,500, when NOAA aviation weather is free online? Somebody has too much money, and it's burning a hole in the club's checkbook. I would be livid if the club officers approved that kind of an expenditure.  Steve

[peabody]

You don't get it....the TV has weather....NOAA has weather...
But they are for places other than the flying site.

Venice is unusual because the flying field is 15 miles inland from the airport.....lots change with sea breezes......

NOAA is almost always wrong when I check the weather in Ellenton, home of the MCRC, and the station is a distance from that site, too.

The Ellenton site is almost an hour from me, and many times I have checked Accuweather or NOAA, and hiked up only to have the wind blowing a gale.

I know the old Sterling kits instructed us to "fly on windy days too"......