That high-quality smartphone pic you shot of the overcast layer as you climbed on top makes for a good Facebook post, but it’s even better as part of a PIREP. That’s what a new app called Virga does. Think of it as the social media of PIREPs, and it’s growing users for good reason.
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That’s the idea behind Virga’s concept, an idea that company founder Matt Lane came up with after getting stuck on top of an overcast over Colorado in his Cirrus. Not yet instrument rated at the time (he’s since worked his way into a jet), Lane couldn’t get real-time PIREPs because there simply weren’t any reported.