Airborne Weather: Enjoy the many options for homebuilders.

By Stein Bruch

Weather depiction on the Advanced Flight Systems EFIS includes airspace and obstructions as well as navigation waypoints.

As pilots, we have an intimate relationship with weather. Sometimes it’s love, sometimes it’s hate. But as is true among humans, the more you know the easier it is. Technology has improved markedly since the days of “going up for a look” or getting a long-range briefing before departure and hoping that the weather picture doesn’t change too much before you get to the destination. (This issue is never will it change, just by how much.)

For builders of Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft today, the information stream is nothing short of amazing, and it stands to get better. Technology now affords even those with the most modest budgets the capability to have a clear and fairly accurate picture of the weather situation around them and along their intended route of flight. Instead of relying purely on a flight brief as many of us have done, we now have the ability to keep an…

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