Iridium to complement airborne wx reporting
SkyTrac Systems of Kelowna, British Columbia, has won a contract from AirDat, a U.S.

SkyTrac Systems of Kelowna, British Columbia, has won a contract from AirDat, a U.S. company, to provide Iridium ISAT-100 satellite system hardware as an upgrade to AirDat’s airborne meteorological data reporting system.

The ISAT-100 satcom unit will add services such as automatic flight following, two-way satellite voice communications and text messaging. The AirDat Tamdar (tropospheric airborne meteorological data reporting) system equips carrier aircraft with a multifunction atmospheric sensor that measures icing, turbulence, pressure, relative humidity and temperature and beams the data to meteorologists on the ground.