Anybody try xAttitude app for your ipad/iphone?

[Will.iam]

Interesting looking app under development that i will try out the next time i go fly. One of the parameters it is asking for is wing area. Does anybody know what our wing area is? I see wing span and even wing loading values but I can’t seem to find anywhere the published wing area. I’m guessing 174?

[Pinecone]

Yeap.

2 seconds with Google - http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acdata_php/acdata_m20_en.php

 

[Will.iam]

4 minutes ago, Pinecone said:

Yeap.

2 seconds with Google - http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acdata_php/acdata_m20_en.php

 

Thanks your google foo is better than mine. Maybe i have some restriction to only US base sites as i noticed yours was from a german site? 

[Will.iam]

Here is a screen shot and what it’s trying to accomplish. Remainds to be seen how good it works or not. 

[201Steve]

That's interesting. I wonder if the iphone "ahars" is better than an external. I know that with my Stratus, it's not always very stable. Likes to hunt around. Would be sort of sad if there was ever a person stranded in IMC with system failures that had an iphone in their pocket... if it works well...

[Will.iam]

Well one interesting thing is that it needs to calibrate standing still so it wouldn’t work well i assume if you forgot to start it up before you took off. Also would require you to mount the ipad or iphone to a panel as i think the yoke mount would mess up the ahars. If it links to the garmin345 via bluetooth would be a way better solution will have to wait and see. 

[goodyFAB]

On 12/12/2022 at 5:26 PM, Will.iam said:

Well one interesting thing is that it needs to calibrate standing still so it wouldn’t work well i assume if you forgot to start it up before you took off. Also would require you to mount the ipad or iphone to a panel as i think the yoke mount would mess up the ahars. If it links to the garmin345 via bluetooth would be a way better solution will have to wait and see. 

Exactly. Get in the habit of setting/zeroing the stratus before take off. Also, make certain it’s mounted solid. 

in my tests the stratus is extremely accurate.

On my to do list is to permanently mount it, any mount that moves or a suction mount can easily lose its orientation.