Making Sense of the WX 500 Stormscope for Your Cockpit
The wx 500 stormscope is one of those pieces of avionics that you don't really think about until the sky starts looking a bit too dark for comfort and you're wondering if that cloud ahead is just a heavy rain shower or something much worse. Unlike a lot of modern gadgets that try to do everything at once, this little remote-mounted processor has one job: finding lightning. And even in an age where we have fancy satellite weather beamed directly to our tablets, there is still a massive case to be made for having a dedicated lightning detector on board. ...