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Actually I find the worst place for cell reception is on the airfield itself. The number of times I have been struggling to call a destination prior to takeoff. If I was a real geek, I'd invent a 30KW cellphone booster. - Rob.

Hi, It's confession time - I only fly 100 mile trips and rarely go above 3000ft. I love cloudy days and playing in the layers. I wrote the app a year ago because I once got caught out by a small patch of heavy rain. We have a Cessna Caravan at our airfield with a rather nice weather radar...

The app is subject to the NEXRAD radar processing delay, which is calculated and shown in the top right of the display. It's usually about 10-15mins and an animation function shows you the current trend on the display so you can compensate. Lightning strikes is a good idea - I will look into...

I have developed an app which gives you a live radar image of the rainfall in front of your aircraft in flight. It uses a link to National Weather Service data which it updates as you fly, plus your phone or tablet's GPS. It works up to about 3000ft and requires a cellphone data connection...