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77 lines
2.5 KiB
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# Flight Dashboard
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Shows basic flight and navigation instruments.
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Basic flight data includes:
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- Ground speed
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- Track
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- Altimeter
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- VSI
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- Local time
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You can also set a destination to get nav guidance:
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- Distance from destination
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- Bearing to destination
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- Estimated Time En-route (minutes and seconds)
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- Estimated Time of Arrival (in UTC)
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The speed/distance and altitude units are configurable.
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Altitude data can be derived from GPS or the Bangle's barometer.
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## DISCLAIMER
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Remember to Aviate - Navigate - Communicate! Do NOT get distracted by your
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gadgets, keep your eyes looking outside and do NOT rely on this app for actual
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navigation!
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## Usage
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After installing the app, use the "interface" page (floppy disk icon) in the
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App Loader to filter and upload a list of airports (to be used as navigation
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destinations). Due to memory constraints, only up to about 500 airports can be
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stored on the Bangle itself (recommended is around 100 - 150 airports max.).
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Then, on the Bangle, access the Flight-Dash settings, either through the
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Settings app (Settings -> Apps -> Flight-Dash) or a tap anywhere in the
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Flight-Dash app itself. The following settings are available:
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- **Nav Dest.**: Choose the navigation destination:
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- Nearest airports (from the uploaded list)
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- Search the uploaded list of airports
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- User waypoints (which can be set/edited through the settings)
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- Nearest airports (queried online through AVWX - requires Internet connection at the time)
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- **Speed** and **Altitude**: Set the preferred units of measurements.
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- **Use Baro**: If enabled, altitude information is derived from the Bangle's barometer (instead of using GPS altitude).
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If the barometer is used for altitude information, the current QNH value is
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also displayed. It can be adjusted by swiping up/down in the app.
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To query the nearest airports online through AVWX, you have to install - and
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configure - the [avwx](?id=avwx) module.
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The app requires a text input method (to set user waypoint names, and search
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for airports), and if not already installed will automatically install the
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default "textinput" app as a dependency.
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## Hint
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Under the bearing "band", the current nav destination is displayed. Next to
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that, you'll also find the cardinal direction you are approaching **from**.
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This can be useful for inbound radio calls. Together with the distance, the
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current altitude and the ETA, you have all the information required to make
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radio calls like a pro!
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## Author
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Flaparoo [github](https://github.com/flaparoo)
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