Altimeter Variometer (Wear OS)

jeromej

About this app

A Wear OS, user friendly, intuitive, accurate and responsive altimeter and variometer for skydive, paraglider, wingsuit and glider pilots.

The altimeter and variometer app provides many functionalities like alarms (breakoff, pull, AAD near fire, hard-deck alarms), audible variometer, swoop distance measurement, distance and direction to a reference location like dropzone.

Positions and altitudes can be saved into a GPX file and sent to mobile email app.

When on Skydive or wingsuit mode, by double touch on the screen, the altitude will be displayed in K like standard digital skydive altimeters.

When paired with earbuds, the Voice Warning System (VWS) provides altitude, alarms and vario sounds for wingsuits pilots.

The different functionalities are set automatically depending the mode chosen (skydive, wingsuit, paragliding):

1. Skydiving
- Altitude set to 0 automatically
- Altitude displayed at the center
- Vario is displayed in the secondary field
- Voice Warning System for altitudes, and alarms like AAD firing, and pull is ON
- Vario bip is OFF
- Measure swoop is ON
- variometer graph is OFF
- Wingsuit glide is OFF

2. Wingsuit
- like skydiving but the Glide measurement is ON

3. Paragliding
- Vario is displayed in the center
- Altitude is displayed in the secondary field
- Vario graph is ON
- Vario bip is ON

WARNING: The app could be used only as an in-flight aid and should not be used as a primary information source. The app contains a barometric altimeter, it will not function in a pressurized aircraft and should not be used in a pressurized aircraft. Always defer to certified instrumentation during operation.

What’s new

- Solved a bug (only 1500 bytes of GPS data were exported to mobile)
- Improved display by having distance to reference point displayed in the arrow