Aircraft Horizon [legacy - see new app: fDeck]
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An aircraft artificial horizon on your phone!
** LEGACY NOTICE: **The developers latest, integrated flight deck, fDeck: flight instruments is now available. It is recommended that you use fDeck as this will receive all future updates and support.NOTICE: This app is heavily dependent on your devices available hardware sensors, version of the Android operating system and last but not least, your device vendors software. For this reason, the app can behave with different results on different devices.Aircraft horizon is the most advanced artificial horizon on the marketplace.It fuses data from your devices accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer sensors to provide you with accurate pitch and roll information depicted as a typical aircraft artificial horizon.Features:- Sensor fused, accurate pitch and roll via internal accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer sensors- Linear acceleration compensated - it is accurate whilst moving (with appropriate sensors)- Automatically selects the best available sensors to use from those available on your device- Filtered, smoothed and reactive display - no jitter or jumping!- Pitch level levels the horizon to your installation- Supports multiple screen resolutions- Supports display in both portrait and landscape orientationsUsage:Aircraft Horizon is very simple to use. Pitch and roll is dynamically shown when you move your device. Using the menu, you can pitch level based upon your installation, switch between portrait and landscape modes and toggle debug data on and off.If you like this app, please try my other aircraft/flying related apps! Im a professional software engineer, part-time android developer and passionate private pilot so would love to hear your thoughts, feature requests and bug reports.Dont forget to rate it!v2.2 (05/03/2012) - Fix for small screens - Instrument is now scaled larger on larger screens - Added digital text readoutsv2.1 (12/02/2012) - (Hopefully!) Fixed screen resolution bug on certain devices - Added portrait/landscape orientation switch optionv2.0 (05/02/2012) - App now fuses data from all available sensors rather than just using raw data - Reworked display engine now much better graphics and screen refresh rate - Added pitch level feature - Added debug
** LEGACY NOTICE: **The developers latest, integrated flight deck, fDeck: flight instruments is now available. It is recommended that you use fDeck as this will receive all future updates and support.NOTICE: This app is heavily dependent on your devices available hardware sensors, version of the Android operating system and last but not least, your device vendors software. For this reason, the app can behave with different results on different devices.Aircraft horizon is the most advanced artificial horizon on the marketplace.It fuses data from your devices accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer sensors to provide you with accurate pitch and roll information depicted as a typical aircraft artificial horizon.Features:- Sensor fused, accurate pitch and roll via internal accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer sensors- Linear acceleration compensated - it is accurate whilst moving (with appropriate sensors)- Automatically selects the best available sensors to use from those available on your device- Filtered, smoothed and reactive display - no jitter or jumping!- Pitch level levels the horizon to your installation- Supports multiple screen resolutions- Supports display in both portrait and landscape orientationsUsage:Aircraft Horizon is very simple to use. Pitch and roll is dynamically shown when you move your device. Using the menu, you can pitch level based upon your installation, switch between portrait and landscape modes and toggle debug data on and off.If you like this app, please try my other aircraft/flying related apps! Im a professional software engineer, part-time android developer and passionate private pilot so would love to hear your thoughts, feature requests and bug reports.Dont forget to rate it!v2.2 (05/03/2012) - Fix for small screens - Instrument is now scaled larger on larger screens - Added digital text readoutsv2.1 (12/02/2012) - (Hopefully!) Fixed screen resolution bug on certain devices - Added portrait/landscape orientation switch optionv2.0 (05/02/2012) - App now fuses data from all available sensors rather than just using raw data - Reworked display engine now much better graphics and screen refresh rate - Added pitch level feature - Added debug
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I have not yet used your horizon inflight; however, as a long time flight instructor I can attest to the fact that at least on my Galaxy Note 8 your gyro looks and reacts exactly like the gyros in the airplanes that I fly. I hope that it reacts just as accurately inflight.
Cool, doesn't work on anything now! Did you guys put a time out, even on the paid version?
App appears to be using accelerometers rather than gyros. Displays level flight during coordinated turns. ....not a useful tool in a real airplane.
Bought the app as promised to work with available sensors INCLUDING Gyro. Obviously not using the Galaxy S4 gyro or programming done wrong. Pretty interface but a waste of money and falsely promoted. I did fly this with my airplane to test.
Update - vibration while in flight seems to make the app unusable. I tried holding the smart phone in my hand isolate the vibration, and it still did not track the horizon in a useful fashion. Worked very well on the ground on my Note 4.
Doesn't work in flight! Useless for me. Samsung S2
On a Samsung Galaxy it doesn't work in an airplane. I already knew which way the floor was. Quite nice for measuring angles on the ground.
Works great on my galaxy tablet, but won't work at all on my note with 4.2.1 :-(
I tried it in the helicopter. It seems to work well for initial roll into turn, but it adjusts to the 'new vertical' in line with the load factor too quickly. So during a rate one turn it will seem to think the aircraft's floor is now 'down' within only a few seconds. Use only as a toy.
It's a shame that some devices can't match the app's ability but as a backup, it's fine.