Enhancing Air  Safety in Indonesia

All Weather, Inc. (AWI) is providing an undisclosed number of Automated Weather Observing Systems (AWOS) and Runway Visual Range Systems (RVR) to numerous airports throughout Indonesia.  The AWOS, developed by AWI, is an unmanned system that provides up-to-the-minute weather data to airport personnel, pilots, and meteorological offices. The RVR system, developed by AWI provides accurate and reliable RVR values aiding in safer take offs and touchdowns.  “These systems will provide around-the-clock weather and RVR data to locations that, until now, have had limited or no access to such information,” said Steve Glander, international sales manager of  AWI  Included in AWI’s AWOS offering are sensors for measuring wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rainfall, and barometric pressure, the Indonesian airports will also be outfitted with AWI's Laser Ceilometer and Dual-Technology Visibility/RVR Sensor. Laser ceilometers use laser pulses and sophisticated software algorithms to "see" cloud cover, enabling them to determine the height and depth of up to four layers of clouds above an airport.  A series of Dual-Technology Visibility Sensors installed alongside the airport's runway work in concert with AWI’s Ambient Light Sensor to determine Runway Visual Range (RVR), a highly accurate measure of visibility from a pilot's perspective.