Aircraft Compass Free
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 accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer sensors
- Ground-track sourced via internal GPS
- Functioning heading bug (just drag with your finger!)
- Filtered and smoothed display
- no jitter or jumping!
- Support for portrait and landscape screens
- Support for multiple screen resolutions
This is the free version of the app.It is ad supported and has a two minute time limit per run. Upgrade to the paid version to remove both these limitations.
Usage:Aircraft Compass is very simple to use. Move the heading bug by touching it and sliding it around. You can switch between magnetic heading and GPS based groundtrack using the menu, as well as changing between portrait and landscape modesIf 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.
Category : Productivity
Reviews (28)
Accurate and smooth, no junket (water in the whiskey) like in all the rest of compasses.Tried dozens, this is best!
Don't waste your time with this app it points any direction but true
Very well crafted! Will try in the air. Can't tell if there is an actual gyro controlling the Artificial Horizon as it will not work properly otherwise with only accelerometer. If you could come up with a multiple instrument app say compass card AND artificial horizon where each app would open for a short time and allow the pilot to stop any one with a tap, that would be some app.
Simple to use and seems to be accurate. I've tried the other apps by Sensorworks and this one is up there with the best of them :-)
Basically it's simply a compass but it looks very good and the movement is smooth, also really feels like real airplane instrument. And it's accurate too
Does not work at all. Points in what seems like random directions.
Off by 90 degrees and that's even after several attempts to recalibrate.
Works as expected and looks reeeaaaallly nice. Going to try the other aircraft apps by same author now...
Finally a Phone Compass i can rely on. No Lags. No Jumps. Till now it seems accurate
Does not work and even if it did I would only have 2 minutes to play with it
I did not know if it is the app or my phone but it will not give me accurate readings
Not accurate, unreliable. Do not use for navigation.
Very nice. Smooths my poor magnetic sensors action very well.
Took too long 2 settle b4 evaluation was over, exit or buy...
Works very well. However, the app icon (not the app itself) shows N at 090, W at 360, E at 180, and S at 270 !!! Same on this page (picture is wrong). Also, 240 appears twice.
Crippleware works for about 2 mins and then dies
see above
It froze instantly.
Time-limited
I've tried a few, and this is the best one yet! Really smooth and the heading big feature is wicked!
Really well implemented.
Installed this app and one other, and received 84 spam emails in one day. Uninstalled both, hopefully the emails will stop...
Time limit doesn't work on my tab 2 real shame Pity about time limit too shame booo.
Way off in direction and heading was jumpy even when I held perfectly still...
Major heading errors when compared to real compass.
runs for 2 minutes then prompt you to buy. its just a come on
Not working on Samsung Galaxy S3, uninstalled.
I have tried apps that appeared to be similar to this one and they dont even come close. This app is designed by a gentleman that is a private aircraft pilot so with that being said his position as a pilot ensures me of a quality product. Thank you Sir for your app and experience.