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12/16/2020 4:22 PM
 

Not so sure, though... see attached 

 
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12/16/2020 8:20 PM
 

Perhaps these are two different weather RADAR's, but they are from within 2 minutes of each other.  The Weather Underground image shows a significant difference from the iFly in depicted weather.  If not for the MVFR/IFR/LIFR dots I'd think flying up the edge of Lakes Erie/Ontario would be a good idea. 

 
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12/16/2020 9:12 PM
 

ADSB radar intensity levels do not map 1-to-1 with NEXRAD radar intensity levels.  NEXRAD has several more levels of granularity that are "crushed" into single levels in ADSB.  Thus, it's always an apples-to-oranges comparison when you compare ADSB to NEXRAD.

Perhaps iFly converts the NEXRAD intensities to the equivalent ADSB intensities, to avoid the situation where the image you saw in the FBO lounge suddenly changes to a very different image at 1000' AGL?

 
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12/17/2020 7:16 PM
 

If Cobra is correct in his summation, I have a few problems and suggestions.

1. It would seem to me that NEXRAD should be NEXRAD.   If iFly is converting the NEXRAD intensities to the equivalent ADSB intensities, I would request they cease that practice, or change "NEXRAD" in the documation to something like "Simulated ADSB WX RADAR".  If I think I'm looking at NEXRAD, I'd like to think that wherever I look (TWC, CH7, or whoever else purports to be showing NEXRAD) I'd see the same weather depiction at the same time.  

2. If NEXRAD weather depiction is that different from ADSB, and iFly doesn't already, I'd like to see any available NEXRAD (acquired on the ground/internet), combined with (airborne derived) ADSB weather depiction, but some kind of visual indicator so we know which part of our looped WX RADAR depiction is NEXRAD, and which is ADSB.  Maybe different colors, or similar colors with stripes, or something. 

3.  If possible, always show the weather a step up rather than a step down.  So in the images above, the rain that is apparently there based on the weather reports and the WxUnderground image gets displayed even if it's depicted higher than it is.  Personally I'd rather find myself flying in weather better than what was predicted/forecast/anticipated than worse.  I'm not sure what to do if the ADSB stream shows no rain when NEXRAD indicates there is. 

 
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