fauxplane — glass panel

First time here

These instructions stay in the i menu at the top of the screen after you switch on, along with what changed in each release and where the numbers come from.

It is a glass cockpit panel for a phone or tablet — the instruments an airliner shows its pilots, driven by your device's own sensors and by live aviation data. It is a toy for people who love aeroplanes.

There are three ways people use it:

Follow a real flight. Pick an aircraft overhead and the panel flies as that aircraft.
Take it on a flight and see roughly what the pilots see, from your own seat.
Clamp it in the car. Level it to the cradle once and the horizon, speed and turn rate are all yours, live.

It is not a simulator, it is not certified for anything, and it is never for navigation.

PFD: The horizon, altitude, heading and G, with a plan view of real aircraft beside it.
ATIS: The weather at the nearest reporting airport, as the report actually reads.
RADAR: Real aircraft overhead. Tap one and the panel flies as that aircraft.
BITE: Built-in test: every sensor and feed, working or not, and why.
SETUP: Level the horizon to whatever the device is clamped in.

Clamp it somewhere, press Level the horizon on the PFD, and open RADAR to see what is flying near you.

Add it to your home screen

It then opens full screen with no browser bars, and works with no signal — the instruments that run on the device's own sensors need nothing from the network.

iPhone or iPad: the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
Android: the browser's menu, then Install app or Add to Home screen.