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Aviation Forum / General / IFR / March 2010Belfort Digiwx AWOS SPEWS Un-Approved, Un-Certified Weather data
> I haven't seen any other comments about the fact that a Belfort > Instruments Digiwx AWOS comes with an analog (not digital) Chinese > wind direction indicator and an analog (not digital) Chinese made > wind speed sensor. Belfort converts the analog signal to digital >after the fact! Actually, somebody else noted the Belfort Digiwx AWOS Chinese wind sensors: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.products/msg/3606426f099b4c 44 > You may say: BIG DEAL! The use of unreliable wind sensors should sound ALARM bells! > Have you seen the precision, accuracy and resolution of these Belfort > Instruments Digiwx AWOS wind sensors? Belfort Instruments writes in their DigiWx AWOS Maintenance Manual: "The wind speed sensor verification procedure is a confidence test, which verifies that the DigiWx=AE AWOS wind speed readings compare reasonably with measurements taken from a reference Kestrel Model 3000 Wind Instrument." The Kestrel Model 3000 Wind Instrument sells for $129.00. So how good can it be for a mere $129.00? I also couldn't locate any specs (eg. precision, accuracy or resolution) for the Kestrel 3000. And then you have Belfort's statement that their "readings compared reasonably" with the Kestrel 3000. Where's that data? Who judged was was reasonable? Keep in mind, that Belfort Instruments is NOT ISO 9000, 9001, 9002, 9003, 9004 nor 9005 certified. So they likely didn't record or write down any of the compared data. Chinese wind bottles that "compare reasonably" with a $129.00 wind meter... what kind of corporate hogwash is this? > Have you watched the Belfort Digiwx AWOS installer/technician (if you > can call them that) field adjust the magnetic north direction marker > on the wind direction indicator using a handheld round magnetic > compass (similar to what hikers use)? Belfort Instruments writes in their DigiWx AWOS Maintenance Manual under TOOLS AND TEST EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: 7. Magnetic compass S&Y 183, Stocker and Yale or equivalent which is nothing more than a Lensatic compass as pictured at: http://www.olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_gear_compass_lensatic.php Digiwx AWOS is sited using a 1950s style magnetic compass! If that doesn't take the cake, then I don't know what does. > Do you know the failure rates of these sensors in the field? Well, since Belfort Instruments seems to specialize in using 1950s styled equipment, one can only begin to wonder what the true field failure rates really are. It's scary to say the least! > These Belfort Digiwx AWOS Chinese made wind sensors are about the > worst products available in the weather instrumentation marketplace > worldwide. This is yet another reason why Belfort Instruments did not > get the following Digiwx AWOS weather sensors (ie. wind speed, wind > direction, temperature, dewpoint, relative humidity, density > altitude, present weather, precipitation, lightning, ceilometer (aka > condensation altitude)) FAA Approved, nor FAA Ceritified and why the > information SPEWED from a Belfort Digiwx AWOS is NOT OFFICIAL FAA > WEATHER INFORMATION (like you'd find in a FAA METAR report). Belfort > formats their UN-APPROVED, UN-CERTIFIED and UN-OFFICIAL weather data > to make it look like an official avaition METAR when it's NOT! And > that's why you won't find a single FAA COMMISSIONED Belfort Digiwx > AWOS anywhere in the world! Now I think one can clearly see why the words "Digiwx AWOS" and "FAA commissioned AWOS" DO NOT belong in the same sentence! It's both sad and true! Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system Per maggiori informazioni |For more info https://www.mixmaster.it This is a MUCH better class of product assassination than the old fellah usually comes up with. Congrats! Brian W anonymous poster wrote: >> a Belfort >> Instruments Digiwx AWOS comes with an analog [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>...the precision, accuracy and resolution of these Belfort >> Instruments Digiwx AWOS wind sensors... >> Belfort Instruments writes in their DigiWx AWOS Maintenance Manual ... >> the DigiWx=AE AWOS wind speed ... you have Belfort's statement >> Belfort Instruments ... the Belfort Digiwx AWOS installer... >> Belfort Instruments writes in their DigiWx AWOS Maintenance Manual >> under TOOLS AND TEST EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:... >> Digiwx AWOS is sited ... Belfort Instruments ... Belfort Digiwx AWOS ... >> Belfort Instruments ...the following Digiwx AWOS weather sensors >> (ie. wind speed, wind direction, temperature, dewpoint, >> relative humidity, density altitude, present weather, precipitation, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> AWOS .. "Digiwx AWOS" and "FAA >> commissioned AWOS" < typical anti-Belfort drivel deleted > In case you're new to these rec.aviation.* newsgroups, here are some facts: Mark Kukucka has been posting this anti-Belfort garbage for years. Mark Kukucka was sued in Baltimore County Circuit Court for posting these anti-Belfort rants. (See the article in The Baltimore Record for more details. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20051128/ai_n15872662/) Briefly, the suit said, "A Baltimore manufacturer of weather instruments is suing a fired employee it claims is on an anonymous Internet rampage.Belfort Instrument says Mark A. Kukucka has been harassing current Belfort employees via e-mail, calling the company's customers and partners alleging unethical business practices, and posting trade secrets on the Internet.Defendant Kukucka has an alarming history of engaging in such 'anonymous' Internet attacks against those who he believes may have slighted him (including past employers), and, absent a TRO, will continue his historical pattern of making outrageous and harmful attacks against the material business interests of Belfort Instrument, reads Belfort's complaint, filed earlier this month in Baltimore County Circuit Court." It is safe to ignore all these anti-Belfort, anti-Shimadzu, anti- Ryland, even anti-Baltimore Convention Center rants. They aren't even entertaining any more ... they are just noise. |
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