PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - primus 440 weather radar on helos.
View Single Post
Old 12th Jan 2007, 05:42
  #1 (permalink)  
cpt
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: 1500' AMSL
Age: 68
Posts: 412
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
primus 440 weather radar on helos.

To primus 440 digital weather radar, do you find this equipment reliable ? very often significant convective clouds are not shown on weather mode, intermittent functionning is not rare. Many of the other available functions are not very usefull to helicopter operations. I have the feeling it doesn't do its basic job correctly , detect convedtive clouds (precipitations) and good reliable mapping mode for ARA approaches.
I think the older versions of Bendix 1400 were much better, even in its monochrome version.
cpt is offline