Aircraft Compass provides magnetic compass and GPS ground-track functionality depicted as an aircraft directional gyro, complete with a functioning heading bug.
It uses your phones internal sensors and global positioning system to present you with an accurate magnetic heading or ground-track.
Features:
- Magnetic heading sourced via internal sensors
- Ground-track sourced via internal GPS
- Functioning heading bug
- Filtered and smoothed display - no jitter or jumping!
- Support for portrait and landscape screens
- Support for multiple screen resolutions
Usage:
When the app starts, it defaults to using the internal magnetic sensors. You can move the heading bug by pressing and holding the screen above and below the on-screen heading knob. This will move the heading bug clockwise or anti-clockwise.
A menu button is used to toggle between the internal magnetic sensor derived heading and GPS derived ground-track.
A GPS satellite icon is displayed top-left if you are using the GPS. Whilst the GPS is acquiring a fix, the ground track is shown in red. Once a fix has been obtained, the text turns to green.
If you like this app, please try my other aircraft/flying related apps!
I'm a professional software engineer, part-time android developer and passionate private pilot so would love to hear your thoughts, feature requests and bug reports.
