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Primary Flight Display (PFD) on your Apple iPhone 3G

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If you go on to carry and besides call an Apple iPhone 3G your domestic partner, you power be fascinated to study that i-hud.com has published a small computer code that turns your iPhone into a PFD.
This software package uses the 3D accelleration sensors and the GPS-receiver that are stacked into the Apple iPhone 3G to derive the attitude, rate and command of the device.
Apropos - simply quite presumed not coincidentally - the primary aviation display aggregation display looks rather same to what a Garmin G-1000 is showing on much spacious displays.
This has me scratching my head with much to-do, as it would be a very absorbing gadget to add to my homebuilt IBIS fiction airplane electrical device. Ah well, it will shut up take a couple of years ahead I change state that and by then fifty-fifty devices care this i will feature been built upon :)

Primary Flight Display (PFD) on an Apple iPhone

i-Hud PFD software on Apple iPhone

Wish note that this code does not use whatsoever pressure transducers connected to the static- and pitot ports, so all stimulant and angular position information that it presents is derived from GPS-data numerically. For these and other reasons, the Apple iPhone 3G running this package is not going to replace some of your other primary flying instruments, merely otherwise it would give been a very nice backup device indeed.

As you can see, the information is displayed in crisp detail. Probable sunlight will interfere with readability though. The next bitmap shows the Apple iPhone / i-Hud PFD screen content in more detail:

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