Relay of SMS report from Aman Air:
Weather radar overlayed with lightning strike display aids weather prediction and avoidance.
Aman Air AT 802s do not have a weather radar nor a lightning strike display. As a mitigation, we use the Windy App on our handphone that will normally display weather radar (presumably relayed from BMKG) and satellite detected lightning. We can see cumulus building to the mature CB stage, most often associated with lightning in clusters to be avoided. This is a good hazardous weather predictive tool for our short leg flights.
However, today Windy shows all of Asia is displaying weather radar, EXCEPT Indonesia. We have reverted to using BMKG for wx radar but BMKG never displays lightening, even on a browser laptop.
We wish the blockage discovered and fixed to restore Indonesian weather radar to Windy.