Pilot My-Cast

Now, get weather briefings and file flight plans - all on your mobile phone.

Critical aviation intelligence.

With Pilot My-Cast® by Garmin, critical aviation weather intelligence and flight planning is literally in the palm of your hand. You can check current and predicted National Weather Service (NWS) data at your departure airport, your destination, or at any terminal waypoint in the continental United States. Then, using DUAT(S), you can file a flight plan right from your cell phone.

Pilot viewing weather information on his cell phone. Pilot My-Cast® makes it easy to page through surface meteorological reports, terminal forecasts, observations and advisories – instantly as they become available. Zoom into a single airport or route in high resolution, view animated radar and satellite imagery, pan across a moving weather map, check upper air winds and temperatures, identify cells producing lightning, and more. Now you can have the latest in personalized, on-demand pilot weather delivered to your mobile phone in text or graphical color formats. Subscription fee is just $9.95/month, billed directly to your phone bill.*

Created by pilots, for pilots.

Pilot My-Cast® was developed by pilots. And it shows. The information-rich features are easy and quick to access. The user interface is intuitively simple. And unlike other web-based services, Garmin’s Digital Cyclone weather engine receives a direct data stream from the National Weather Service, plotting both current and predicted weather to 1km resolution. As a result, commercial and general aviation pilots can now instantly access the precise, personalized reports they need to make better-informed flying decisions.

Go or no-go?

Weather drives many of the flight decisions you make, even before you take to the skies. Now you can get the weather intelligence you need - on demand.

Pilot-Specific Features

  • Radar and Satellite Imagery
  • Easy flight plan filing via DUAT(S)
  • METARs displayed in text and graphic formats
  • TAFs – 24 hour forecasts
  • Current flight conditions and observations— visibility, altimeter, wind direction and speed, temperature, dew point, and time of observation
  • Improved TFR display highlights Temporary Flight Restriction areas
  • SIGMETs, AIRMETs and PIREPs – available as soon as they are issued
  • Winds aloft – direction, speed, and temperatures at planned flight altitude
  • Lightning data – the first mobile system that plots lightning strikes: the most dangerous cells to avoid

Access to Pilot My-Cast costs only $9.95 per month* and adding it to your existing wireless service is easy.

BlackBerryTM: View compatible phones or get set-up instructions.

Windows MobileTM: View compatible phones or get set-up instructions.

JavaTM, Get-It-Now/BREW-enabled mobile phones: Pilot My-Cast is supported by all major providers, including: Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, SouthernLINC, and Verizon Wireless. View compatible phones or get set-up instructions.

Support

Frequently asked questions:

Pilot My-Cast FAQ

Pilot My-Cast User Guide

See a full list of supported phones.

Phones which are not supported by Pilot My-Cast 7 may be able to use a previous version. Contact to find out more.

Further assistance is available by:

* Subscription fee does not include any data access charges or minutes charged by your wireless carrier. Coverage will differ depending on your carrier and phone.
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