Aircraft ADF
Aircraft VOR
Aircraft VOR Free
Nav Trainer Pro for Pilots
ADF / VOR / ILS - GPS
Radio Nav Aids (Trial)
Aircraft Horizon Free
Aircraft Compass Free
Aircraft Horizon
Aircraft Compass
Aircraft ADF provides you with a GPS based aircraft radio magnetic indicator (RMI) instrument shown as a typical Bendix/King KI-227 instrument.
It lets you 'tune' aircraft navigation non-directional beacons (NDB) and gives you bearing and distance information to that NDB.
It uses a worldwide navigation database (downloaded on first use) and is not restricted by radio range.
It uses your device GPS position and heading to calculate bearing and distance to the tuned NDB.
This is the free version, with advertising and a five minute time limit. Upgrade to the paid version to remove both of these limitations.
Features:
- Bendix/King KI-227 face
- Worldwide NDB navigation database (downloaded on firt use)
- Digital Bearing and distance to station indications
- Option to operate as rotable compass card (just rotate with your finger!)
- Filtered and smoothed display - no jitter or jumping!
- Support for portrait and landscape screens
- Support for multiple screen resolutions
Usage
IMPORTANT POINT 1 - Please ensure you have an active data connection when starting the app for the first time as it will attempt to download the radio navigation database.
IMPORTANT POINT 2- To function correctly, the application requires not only a GPS position fix but also a valid GPS groundtrack. It may be necessary to move your device to give the GPS the data it requires to make this calculation.
Don't use it until you know its working!
Until a GPS fix is obtained, or in case of GPS fix being lost, the ADF will 'park' itself at 90 degrees and '---' will be shown in both the bearing and distance text boxes.
Tuning a station
Use the app menu to select 'Tune NDB'. You will be presented with all the NDB stations within 200 nautical miles of your current location. Selecting a NDB will tune it up. Hit your devices 'Back' button when you have selected your desired VOR.
Interpreting the display
If you have a valid GPS fix, the bearing to the NDB will be shown by the ADF needle and the top (or left in landscape mode) digital text box will show a digital bearing indication - the course you need to fly to travel towards the beacon. The distance in nautical miles to the NDB will be shown in the bottom (or right in landscape mode) digital text box.
Rotatable compass card
By default, the ADF compass card will slave itself to the GPS groundtrack, making the instrument a true single-needle Radio Magnetic Indicator(RMI). However, you can manually turn the ADF into a rotatable compass card instrument using the toggle option in the app menu. Once toggled, you can easily rotate the card using your finger.
If 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
Tags: rmi instrument, adf compass card, sensorworks adf doesnt include us ndb database, radio magnetic indicator, radio instruments aircraft software.
It lets you 'tune' aircraft navigation non-directional beacons (NDB) and gives you bearing and distance information to that NDB.
It uses a worldwide navigation database (downloaded on first use) and is not restricted by radio range.
It uses your device GPS position and heading to calculate bearing and distance to the tuned NDB.
This is the free version, with advertising and a five minute time limit. Upgrade to the paid version to remove both of these limitations.
Features:
- Bendix/King KI-227 face
- Worldwide NDB navigation database (downloaded on firt use)
- Digital Bearing and distance to station indications
- Option to operate as rotable compass card (just rotate with your finger!)
- Filtered and smoothed display - no jitter or jumping!
- Support for portrait and landscape screens
- Support for multiple screen resolutions
Usage
IMPORTANT POINT 1 - Please ensure you have an active data connection when starting the app for the first time as it will attempt to download the radio navigation database.
IMPORTANT POINT 2- To function correctly, the application requires not only a GPS position fix but also a valid GPS groundtrack. It may be necessary to move your device to give the GPS the data it requires to make this calculation.
Don't use it until you know its working!
Until a GPS fix is obtained, or in case of GPS fix being lost, the ADF will 'park' itself at 90 degrees and '---' will be shown in both the bearing and distance text boxes.
Tuning a station
Use the app menu to select 'Tune NDB'. You will be presented with all the NDB stations within 200 nautical miles of your current location. Selecting a NDB will tune it up. Hit your devices 'Back' button when you have selected your desired VOR.
Interpreting the display
If you have a valid GPS fix, the bearing to the NDB will be shown by the ADF needle and the top (or left in landscape mode) digital text box will show a digital bearing indication - the course you need to fly to travel towards the beacon. The distance in nautical miles to the NDB will be shown in the bottom (or right in landscape mode) digital text box.
Rotatable compass card
By default, the ADF compass card will slave itself to the GPS groundtrack, making the instrument a true single-needle Radio Magnetic Indicator(RMI). However, you can manually turn the ADF into a rotatable compass card instrument using the toggle option in the app menu. Once toggled, you can easily rotate the card using your finger.
If 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
Tags: rmi instrument, adf compass card, sensorworks adf doesnt include us ndb database, radio magnetic indicator, radio instruments aircraft software.
Recently changed in this version:
- Changed mag var calculation to use the NOAA WMM 2010 calculation rather than the Google internal
Comments and ratings for Aircraft ADF Free
(64 stars)
by Marc Teugels on 25/03/2013
I could use the app as a flight instructor , but then it would need a position derived from wifi , otherwise it does not work in a building. Better yet , giving it a start position using an icao code would then be even better ! Same remark for the VOR app
(64 stars)
by Matthew Byram on 07/02/2013
Nice
(64 stars)
by Randy Medors on 03/02/2013
I'm trying to use this software as it looks cool, but alas the software can't find my GPS signal or something. It keeps flashing the satellite symbol and then of course times out after 5 minutes due to the free status. If I can't get it to work at all,
(64 stars)
by Robert Y on 26/12/2012
This works really well. Database is huge, is really easy to use and is super accurate. You need to move to allow the GPS to aquire a groundtrack, which caught me out at first, but makes sense. Another really good app by Sensorworks.
(64 stars)
by Tom N on 02/12/2012
it doesn't display the ndb's for my area - near Albany NY. The same developers vor app does, and works great. This would be very handy for ils approaches which require adf to locate a decsion point, and ac's adf is flakey. Work around would be if you c
(64 stars)
by A Google User on 19/09/2012
Amazing! Download it now!
(64 stars)
by Jane on 20/03/2012
Worldwide database and really easy to use. Thanks! This is a great app!