Finally, an Attitude Indicator for the iPhone that uses its gyroscope, and actually works! In fact, it shows all primary flight instruments on a 'glass cockpit' display using tapes for altitude, speed and heading, plus vertical speed and rate of turn. In addition, it it shows your position relative to the nearest airport, to help you when ATC asks you for your position.
Head over to www.bbflight.com to check this out, or straight to iTunes to check out the app.
What makes this work better than anything else in the app store right now are the calibration and auto-level features. Inherently the gyroscopes in the iPhone are not stable, so some algorithmic tweaking is needed to clean them up and make them useful and reliable in flight. Of course, this is still no FAA-approved backup for your AI, but if it fails it sure is nice to have some options.
What makes this work better than anything else in the app store right now are the calibration and auto-level features. Inherently the gyroscopes in the iPhone are not stable, so some algorithmic tweaking is needed to clean them up and make them useful and reliable in flight. Of course, this is still no FAA-approved backup for your AI, but if it fails it sure is nice to have some options.
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Just as a heads up to readers, in reading their website, it appears to require the iPhone 4 not just OS 4. I'm not certain if it will work with the 3G or 3GS.
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