Its been so hot down here in Georgia, I can't stay long in the hanger, so I have
been coding in the air-conditioned office. Hopefully my visit this week to Bud's
shop will start my poor engine on its course to recovery and flight status.
The altimeter app "avAltimeter" is up to version 1.0.7 and now allows for
setting the field elevation via GPS or manually or using the Kollsman window
with either metric or imperial units. I've collected pictures of the app being
used in a variety of interesting aircraft cockpits at:
http://www.aviametrix.com/avaltimeter-in-action/
I've also written a weather app which may be of interest to some here on the
Europa
list. Although I have yet to physically test it in the UK or the EU, I have
simulated its presence across the pond and it seems to work fine for METAR
reports world wide. It is a very simple, one trick pony app, but it does what
I thought was useful (for me at least). When you run the app, it gets your
geographic
location by GPS or other means, and fetches the closest METAR reports.
No map scrolling or typing needed. You can fetch 25, 50 100 miles radius of
station reports and sort them by distance to you, by heading, or by age. If you
want to be a weanie, you can tap any particular station and the app will
translate
the METAR into english. The app is called AvWx and it is in the App store.
You can take a peek at:
http://www.aviametrix.com/metar/avwx.html
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