---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 07/18/19: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:54 AM - Apps for EFB (rampil) 2. 06:17 AM - Re: Apps for EFB (woodflier) 3. 06:32 AM - Re: Apps for EFB (rampil) 4. 06:38 AM - Re: Re: Apps for EFB (woodflier) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:54:04 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Apps for EFB From: "rampil" Greetings fellow Aviators! I know there's not much room in a Pietenpol panel and a lot of folks add iOS devices to their electronic flight bag or lap board, I thought these apps might be of interest to you vintage aviators! Of particular interest might be Runway Finder (to find grass strips away from home), and VOR Navigator just because, what Piet has a VOR and ADF for old fashioned navigating? Our family of apps for aviation has grown into 11 very handy and unique tools for people who fly (or dream about it!). Here's a brief list of the Apps with links to the App Store for more information and a sampling of screen shots to see the apps in action. The latest App is Runway Finder. This app was suggested by a buddy, a retired Delta Captain who owns a Citabria. He does a lot of cross country flying and complained that it was hard to find a grass strip to use away from home base. This App maps out airports by runway surface and type (Turf, Paved, Gravel, Water, Glider, and Heliport). Runway Finder has a built-in list of over 50,000 runways/airports world wide. It is available on the Apple App store at: https://apps.apple.com/app/airport-runway-finder/id1471923024 Plane Registry. A FREE app to lookup US-Registered aircraft from the live FAA database. https://apps.apple.com/app/airport-runway-finder/id1471923024 Local METARS. A very handy weather app for local conditions. Just open the App and it will display the current METAR conditions at the closest reporting station. You get the option to look out up to 100 miles and sort by bearing from your location. No more scrolling and endless clicking to get the Wx you need for local flying. This app works with world wide reporting stations. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/local-metars/id1150644548 We also have a stand-alone version of Local METARS for the Apple Watch https://apps.apple.com/app/local-metars-for-watch/id1447757207 Civil Twilight Calculator. CTC is a self-contained sunrise/sunset calculator for use anywhere. No calling home to the Naval Observatory! It doesnt need internet access at all. Use it in flight! It can tell you accurately when Civil Twilight occurs where you are, or at an airport around the world, on any day 50 years. If you do have internet, you can give it a street address and see the calculated times. https://apps.apple.com/app/civil-twilight-calculator/id1163850946 We also have a stand-alone version for Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/app/civil-twilight-for-watch/id1448137376 Aviation Altimeter (aka avAltimeter). Not a GPS altimeter like most on the App Store, but a True and Accurate barometric altimeter using the built-in sensors in iPhones after iPhone 6, or iPads after the Mini-4. Has a Kollsman adjustment for ATC or METARs reports. Looks and feels just like the steam gauge in your panel, but with Smart features: Density Altitude, Oxygen Warning timer, and estimated aircraft Performance, auto-set at airport, etc. https://apps.apple.com/app/avaltimeter/id1120306812 The stand-alone version for the Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/app/aviation-altimeter-for-watch/id1434085253 VOR Navigator. Truly unique! A fully functional VOR and HSI navigator (using GPS, not VHF). Includes all current VOR and NDB transmitting stations plus a number of recently decommissioned ones. Also includes DME and ADF modes. The App will also home to all Large and Medium (Commercial) airports. Check out the Add Lightning mode for the ADF for a true vintage experience! This is a single hybrid App, which works on both iOS devices and the Apple Watch, each independently from the other. https://apps.apple.com/app/vor-navigator/id1451733763 Crosswinds Live. Another very unique and handy App. Crosswinds Live contains the runway diagrams for all registered airports world wide and will draw the current wind across the runways. The wind information comes from the METAR station closest to the airport. Also computes the headwind & crosswind components for flight planning. https://apps.apple.com/app/crosswinds-live/id1240254020 Sun Compass. Compass broken? Lost on a hike? If you can see the Sun or the Moon, this app for Apple Watch can help you out. The Watch does not have a compass built in, but, using the GPS and some fancy astronomy calculations, this App will point to North, and show you your direction of travel. For Watch only (iOS has builtin magnetic compass hardware) https://apps.apple.com/app/sun-compass-for-watch/id1448262474 Safe Flying! -------- Ira N224XS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=490381#490381 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:17:22 AM PST US From: woodflier Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Apps for EFB Apparently none of these are for Android devices? -----Original Message----- From: rampil Sent: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 8:55 am Subject: Pietenpol-List: Apps for EFB Greetings fellow Aviators! I know there's not much room in a Pietenpol panel and a lot of folks add iO S devices to their electronic flight bag or lap board, I thought these apps=C2- mig ht be of interest to you vintage aviators!=C2- Of particular interest might be Runway Finde r (to find grass strips away from home), and VOR Navigator just because, what Piet has a VOR and ADF for old fashioned navigating? Our family of apps for aviation has grown into 11 very handy and unique too ls for people who fly (or dream about it!). Here's a brief list of the Apps with links to the App Store for more information and a sampling of screen shots to see the apps in action. The latest App is Runway Finder.=C2- This app was suggested by a buddy, a retired Delta Captain who owns a Citabria. He does a lot of cross country flying and complained that it was hard to fi nd a grass strip to use away from home base. This App maps out airports by runway surface and type (Turf, Paved, Gravel, Water, Glider, and Heliport). Runway Finder has a built-in list of over 50,000 runways/airports world wid e. It is available on the Apple App store at: https://apps.apple.com/app/airport-runway-finder/id1471923024 Plane Registry. A FREE app to lookup US-Registered aircraft from the live F AA database. https://apps.apple.com/app/airport-runway-finder/id1471923024 Local METARS.=C2- A very handy weather app for local conditions.=C2- Ju st open the App and it will display the current METAR conditions at the closest reporting station. You get the option to look out up to 100 miles and sort by bearing from your location. No more scrolling and end less clicking to get the Wx you need for local flying.=C2- This app works with world wide reportin g stations. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/local-metars/id1150644548 We also have a stand-alone version of Local METARS for the Apple Watch https://apps.apple.com/app/local-metars-for-watch/id1447757207 Civil Twilight Calculator. CTC is a self-contained sunrise/sunset calculato r for use anywhere. No calling home to the Naval Observatory! It doesn=C3=A2=82=AC=84=A2t need internet access at all. Use it in flight! It can tell you accurately when Civil Twilight occurs where you are , or at an airport around the world, on any day =C3=82=C2=B1 50 years. If you do have internet , you can give it a street address and see the calculated=C2- times. https://apps.apple.com/app/civil-twilight-calculator/id1163850946 We also have a stand-alone version for Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/app/civil-twilight-for-watch/id1448137376 Aviation Altimeter (aka avAltimeter). Not a GPS altimeter like most on the App Store, but a True and Accurate barometric altimeter using the built-in sensors in iPhones aft er iPhone 6, or iPads after the Mini-4. Has a Kollsman adjustment for ATC or METARs reports. Look s and feels just like the steam gauge in your panel, but with Smart features: Density Altitude, O xygen Warning timer, and estimated aircraft Performance, auto-set at airport, etc. https://apps.apple.com/app/avaltimeter/id1120306812 The stand-alone version for the Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/app/aviation-altimeter-for-watch/id1434085253 VOR Navigator. Truly unique! A fully functional VOR and HSI navigator (usin g GPS, not VHF). Includes all current VOR and NDB transmitting stations plus a number of recently dec ommissioned ones. Also includes DME and ADF modes. The App will also home to all Large and Medium (Commercial) airports. Check out the =C3=A2=82=AC=C5=93Add Lightning=C3=A2=82=AC=EF=BD mo de for the ADF for a true vintage experience!=C2- This is a single hybrid App, which works on both iOS devices and the Apple Watch, each independentl y from the other. https://apps.apple.com/app/vor-navigator/id1451733763 Crosswinds Live.=C2- Another very unique and handy App. Crosswinds Live c ontains the runway diagrams for all registered airports world wide and will draw the current wind across th e runways. The wind information comes from the METAR station closest to the airport. Also computes the head wind & crosswind components for flight planning. https://apps.apple.com/app/crosswinds-live/id1240254020 Sun Compass.=C2- Compass broken? Lost on a hike?=C2- If you can see the Sun or the Moon, this app for Apple Watch can help you out.=C2- The Watch does not have a compass built in, but, us ing the GPS and some fancy astronomy calculations, this App will point to North, and show you your direction of travel.=C2- For Watch only (iOS has builtin magnetic compass hardware) https://apps.apple.com/app/sun-compass-for-watch/id1448262474 Safe Flying! -------- Ira N224XS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=490381#490381 S - WIKI - - =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- -Matt Dralle, List Admin. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:32:19 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Apps for EFB From: "rampil" Afraid you are correct. At present, Aviametrix, LLC is a strictly iOS and Apple Watch shop. Yes, I am aware of the size of the android market, but for exactly the same reason that Austin Meyer of Laminar Research (X-Plane and Xavion) avoids it: 1) Patent trolls inhabit the Play Store but not Apple Store leading to frivolous lawsuits but also 2) Great variability in sensor hardware between devices in Android world 3) Small development shop here with limited resources to create fine-tuned software for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms in different programming languages not less. If things change, we will announce it. Enjoy your Piet! -------- Ira N224XS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=490385#490385 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 06:38:50 AM PST US From: woodflier Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Re: Apps for EFB Thanks, heading to Brodhead tomorrow.=C2- Matt PaxtonNX629ML -----Original Message----- From: rampil Sent: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 9:32 am Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Apps for EFB Afraid you are correct. At present, Aviametrix, LLC is a strictly iOS and Apple Watch shop. Yes, I am aware of the size of the android market, but for exactly the same reason that Austin Meyer of Laminar Research (X-Plane and Xavion) avoids it: 1) Patent trolls inhabit the Play Store but not Apple Store leading to friv olous lawsuits but also 2) Great variability in sensor hardware between devices in Android world 3) Small development shop here with limited resources to create fine-tuned =C2- =C2- software for multiple operating systems and hardware platform s in different =C2- =C2- programming languages not less. If things change, we will announce it.=C2- Enjoy your Piet! -------- Ira N224XS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=490385#490385 S - WIKI - - =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- -Matt Dralle, List Admin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message pietenpol-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Pietenpol-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/pietenpol-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/pietenpol-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.