Subject: Android horizon link
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 12/6/2011, 11:56 AM
To: AAA Put this in the To box


 http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/aircraft-horizon_zcuz.html


 Robin Bergland.

 That would be worth buying a small Android tab just for that.

 http://www.everbuying.com/**smlclass854.html?gclid=**
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 Paul Lamar


 "Aircraft Horizon provides pitch and roll information, based upon the
 orientation of your phone depicted as a typical aircraft artificial
 horizon."

 Obviously not gyro-based, just the internal accelerometer. That's a
 seriously fatal flaw.

 -Chris W

 Why?

 Paul Lamar


The same reason you can't just fly with feedback from your inner ear in
IMC.

-Chris

One's brain does not integrate as well as a computer :)

Paul Lamar

I don't have an android device, but I'll bet centrifugal accel will make it
think you're banking. If someone who bought that app cares to test, swing
it in a circle and tell us what the "horizon" reads. ;-)

-Chris


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