fDeck: flight instruments

Sensorworks

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About this app

fDeck is an aircraft flight deck in your pocket that provides real-world functionality to a suite of full-featured, graphically beautiful flight instruments for your mobile device.

It allows you to virtually tune any radio aid from a worldwide aviation database, or create your own 'virtual' radio aids whever you want to practice radio navigation. Use the app as a training aid, or use it as a set of complimentary flight instruments when flying.

In addition to the beautiful flight deck instruments, fDeck also has a built-in aviation moving map that shows your location as well as relevant airspace, airports, navigation data and real-time weather and ADS-B based traffic information.. You can move your location on the map to reposition your virtual aircraft and the flight instruments will reflect this new location. This allows you to use fDeck as a radio navigation trainer - you can see in real-time what the VOR, HSI or NDB will look like at your new location!

The following instruments are currently available in the app:

★ Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI)
★ VHF Omnidirectional Range Receiver (VOR)
★ Automatic Direction Finder (ADF)
★ Artificial Horizon
★ Groundspeed Indicator
★ Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI)
★ Aircraft Compass, with functioning heading bug
★ Altimeter - with functioning pressure adjustments
★ Chronometer - with fuel totaliser
★ Weather and Wind - live weather/ wind information

If you use the X-Plane flight simulator you can even drive the flight instruments straight from X-Plane itself!

Key features:

🔺 Instruments are proudly graphically accurate with ultra smooth animations
🔺 Live weather and ADS-B based traffic data with a built-in Traffic Avoidance (TCAS) system
🔺 Go full-screen to focus on a single instrument, or use multiple of the same type
🔺 Tune each instrument slot to a different radio station
🔺 Simulate flight by panning your location on the map - use the app as a radio aids trainer!
🔺 Worldwide aviation database with over 20k airports and radio navaids, updated monthly
🔺 Fully searchable navigation database, filterable by type
🔺 Map view with aviation overlay showing location and tuned radio stations
🔺 Each instrument has an associated video tutorial
🔺 Add your own nav aids - want to practice VOR radial tracking on your house - now you can!
🔺 Supports tablets and phones and both portrait and landscape orientations
🔺 Connect the app with X-Plane using our free connector

This app has taken years of work by the developer, who provides it free for your use. The app does have in-app ads.

By becoming an fDeck Premium member via an in-app subscription or one-time purchase you can remove all in-app ads, remove the 5 user station limitation, access monthly navigation database updates, display map weather overlays, live virtual weather radar, live TAF & METAR reports, live ADS-B Traffic and TCAS system and finally - obtain unlimited access to the X-Plane connector.

Devices should be fitted with GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and barometer sensors. The app will function with reduced functionality if not all sensors are present.

If you have any issues, please consider contacting me directly instead of giving a negative rating - most times your issues can be solved or answered. A rating will not get your app to work or a new feature added, but an email might - simply use the integrated "Contact the developer" function on the app settings page.

Any payments or subscriptions will be charged to your Google account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime through your Google account settings. Full details of our Terms of Service can be found at the following URL https://www.sensorworks.co.uk/terms/

Ratings and reviews

Overall good but has some bugs. The chronometer flight time keeps resetting for no reason. Thanks for the help. Reset my review to now show 5 stars. Also recommend to someone who has nothing but praise for it. It's working fine now. Is there any possibility of hearing the Morse IDs when we tune in a particular VOR/NDB? ..............Maybe?

This is a great app. I'm not actually flying anymore, but this is a great and nice app to even use in the car. Really love the sectional map overlay and the version 2.9 improvements. What is most amazing is the quick response times from Sensorworks support. Responded quickly to my email(s) and addressed my issues.

Great app for flight training, or just flying. I fly an antique airplane with antique instruments. With this app I can pull up a more modern style 6-pack on my tablet for better situational awareness. Very well done. Note - The ads in the free version are super annoying, but the app is very affordable to purchase. Just make the purchase and you won't regret it!

What's new

NEW FEATURES:
- Live ADS-B traffic now shown on map
- TCAS Traffic Announcements (TA)
(both the above are premium features)

NOTABLE CHANGES:
- Altimeter: negative values now show in red
- Groundspeed: max speed input now 1000 knots
- Chronometer: now resets on takeoff, not landing
- Flight planner: max waypoints increased to 48 from 32
- NavDB: removed distance filter for user stations