Don't let lightning strike. Period.

MultiScan helps pilots avoid two of the most common weather threats to an aircraft - lightning and hail. A typical commercial aircraft experiences multiple lightning strikes over the course of its lifetime. And damage to aircraft due to both hail and lightning costs the worldwide airline industry millions of dollars every year.

NASA research shows that the majority of lightning strikes occur around the freezing level at 10,000 feet. Likewise, data collected from NASA's TRMM satellite shows that the probability of lightning strikes varies depending on geographic location and time of year.

So to accurately predict where and when lightning and hail will occur, airborne weather radar needs to consider:

• rate of cell development
• temperature
• aircraft altitude
• storm reflectivity characteristics
• geographic location

MultiScan is the only automatic weather radar that provides both Directed Sequential Hazard Assessment and Geographic Weather Correlation. These technologies provide storm height and growth rate data in relation to each phase of flight, and automatically adjust the weather detection parameters based on position and season. This gives pilots an accurate depiction of the true threat of lightning or hail at any given time - in any given location. And it allows them to respond quickly during approach and departure, when close transit to storm cells is often required.