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{Product Update} MyRadar iOS App Weather Alerts

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You’ve heard it mentioned a few times now from both Carl Valeri and Len Costa. The MyRadar iOS App is exactly what the name implies: weather radar on your iPhone or iPad.

But we’re here today to tell you about one pretty cool feature (besides the flight plan layover function). And that’s the weather notifications.

After experiencing 2 tornadoes, one in Arkansas and one in Illinois, co-host Len Costa decided to configure MyRadar on his iPhone to alert him when any weather event would affect him based on his GPS location.

While on layover in Burlington, VT the MyRadar iOS app, based on his iPhone GPS location, alerted Len that a “Severe Thunderstorm Warning” was in effect for his last known location. Here’s 2 screen shots: first of the weather warning and second of the weather radar.

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After the weather alerts were experienced, coupled with the 2 co-hosts previous recommendations, we really like MyRadar iOS App and highly suggest it!

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Announcing: Winners of The Pilot Report Birthday Bash Software Giveaway

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The Pilot Report Birthday Bash software giveaway contest was a great success. Many of you signed up at our Facebook Page to enter this contest and I’m grateful for you sharing this with your friends and family.

To pick the winners of this software giveaway I entered the names of all the folks who’ve liked us on Facebook into a Random Line Picker. The names were then shuffled 10 times before outputting 21 names at random.

The names of those 21 lucky winners of the Double Dog Studios flying applications are:

Bob Albertson
Charles Reiche
Marty Lewandowski
Masoud Arabiyoun
Keith J. Jones
Andy Matthews
Jake Harris
Sina Rad
Russ Talbot
Joe Ward
Larry Overstreet
Harry Chinokoro
Jason Ensminger
John Ford
Antonios Petritidis
Colin Maitland
Todd McClamroch
George Opreff
Gary Ramsey
Carl Valeri
Stephen Ruby

If your name was on the above list simply send an email to ThePilotReport at gmail dot com with your name in the subject field and your Facebook URL in the body for verification purposes. Once your identity has been verified I will send you the promo code for your free application with instructions on how to redeem your gift.

To find your Facebook URL, login to Facebook, click “Profile” in the top right menu bar, once your profile finishes loading in your web browser, just copy the URL from the browser address bar and paste it into the body of your prize claim email.

These promo codes are only valid for 30 days so if I don’t receive your prize claim email before June 1 all unclaimed prizes will then be distributed at my discretion.

Thanks again for all your interest and support during our first year at ThePilotReport.com and here’s to another year together!

Clear Skies & Calm Winds,

Len @ ThePilotReport.com

@ThePilotReport Birthday Bash Free Software Giveaway #TPRBB

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***Enjoy This Video in High Def***

Hello friends and welcome to another video by ThePilotReport.com – I’m Len Costa and today is a very special day for The Pilot Report – they day we turn one, our very 1st birthday since inception exactly one year ago after the website idea came to me while I was in the shower, of all places.

As my way of thanking you for all your support, I’ll be giving away some free aviation software to 21 lucky winners which I’ll tell you about in just a moment. But first…

It’s been a fun and amazing journey creating videos and content, interacting with you, my new friends, both on Twitter & Facebook, and even meeting some of you in person – my favorite part.

Through your interest and support over the last year I’ve expanded the business with new audio, video, and computer equipment in order to deliver higher quality content in a more timely manner.

I’m also happy to announce there are quite a few new and exciting developments coming down the road for our second year together and it’s my pleasure to share them with you soon.

To celebrate our first year together, I’ve teamed up with Double Dog Studios for a birthday software giveaway. Double Dog Studios is the developer of such iPad & iPhone aviation applications like, Pilot Calcs, IFR Flying, & Pilot Handbook. They’ve allowed me to give away 3 copies of their 7 flying applications, that’s 21 FREE apps up for grabs – all you have to do to enter this giveaway contest is “Like” us on Facebook. The address is Facebook.com/ThePilotReport.

The contest will run for the next 7 days and in a week from now, I will randomly select the names of 21 people from Facebook to receive a free copy of the Double Dog Studio iPhone & iPad apps as my special thanks for your business and support. It’s as simple as that, so head on over to Facebook.com/ThePilotReport and click that Like button RIGHT NOW!

As always, I’d love to hear your feedback about the website; good, bad, indifferent. Please tell me what you like and don’t like. If you have any questions or suggestions, never hesitate to send them my way. Whether it be for product reviews, videos, anything – your support makes it possible for me to be here so comments are always welcome and more importantly, greatly appreciated! You can email me at ThePilotReport at gmail dot com, or message me on Facebook or Twitter.

So THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, for supporting The Pilot Report and here’s to another year together!

This is Len Costa, with ThePilotReport.com wishing you, as always, Clear Skies & Calm Winds!