Simulated WX1000 Modified Storm Scope in a simulator
Actual storm scope display unit used in a simulator. An actual storm scope has an antenna, a receiver, and a display unit. The simulated storm scope used a single board computer to generate 320×240 vga graphics which was converted to RS170 video to display on the actual storm scope crt. The trick was to draw the graphics as an oval so they would come out round on the circular actual display.

Actual WX1000 Modified Storm Scope receiver in Global Hawk
NASA asked AITI to put a storm scope antenna and receiver in the Global Hawk remotely piloted air vehicle so the pilots on the deck could see if they were coming down into a thunderstorm. AITI built a custom converter box that accepted the RS232 data from the stormscope receiver and sent it out as UDP ethernet packets on the air vehicle backbone. This got sent down from the bird thru the existing telemetry, and was displayed on a commercial moving map display that accepted storm scope protocol RS232 just like it was sent from the onboard receiver. One of our custom ethernet to RS232 converters sent the data from the company ethernet from the bird into the ground display in the pilot shack.

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