Pressure Altimeter

By Edward Falk

Does what it says on the tin. This is a basic barometric strain altimeter. Uses your Android gadget's built-in barometer to implement a standard pressure altimeter. Only works on gadgets with barometers.

Great for hikers or anybody else who would like to know their elevation.

No ads. No spy ware. No nonsense.

Instructions:

Go to settings and set your most popular models: ft or meters; inches of mercury or millibars.

Find out the native altimeter setting (pilots can get this from the closest airport). This will look something like 29.ninety two (inches of mercury) or 1013 (millibars). Touch the display to bring up the Kollsman window. Set this to the native altimeter setting on the left. Now you simply look at the show. Altitude is displayed numerically on the left, and via the three palms. The very skinny hand ending with a triangle represents 10,000 feet (or meters), the brief fats hand is 1,000 feet, and the long hand is one hundred feet. You learn it pretty much like a clock.

If you don't know the native altimeter setting, use 29.ninety two.

OR, if you know your altitude and need to discover the altimeter setting, use the Kollsman window and simply enter your altitude on the right.

This is what is known in aviation as a sensitive altimeter, meaning that altitude is calibrated primarily based on a sea-level reference strain. Touch the altimeter face to convey up the Kollsman adjustment window. Enter the present sea-level strain (altimeter setting) to calibrate the altimeter. OR, enter the known native elevation to get the altimeter setting.

See Wikipedia for extra details about delicate altimeters and the way they're used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altimeter. Aviation altimeter settings could be obtained from aviation weather reviews (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR) and airport info broadcasts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atis) when you have an aircraft-band radio.

Pro-tip: use the Kollsman window to set the local elevation to zero, to get the local barometric strain.

Preferences allow you to choose altitude (meters or feet), pressure items (inches mercury or millibars), screen orientation, and keep display screen on.

Not permitted for aviation use. Compare to an actual altimeter before you even think of using this, even as a backup.

Privacy policy: this app by no means collects personal knowledge of any type and it by no means even connects to the web. It doesn't display advertisements.

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