Pocket Avionics
Your phone's sensors as an aircraft instrument panel: a classic six-pack or a glass cockpit.
Testing opens soon What it does
What it does
Real instruments, real sensors
Attitude from the rotation sensor, altitude and vertical speed from the barometer, heading, turn rate and slip, and GPS ground speed and track.
Panels for every aircraft
A modern trainer, a 1930s vintage panel, aerobatic, glider and a glass cockpit, or lay out your own grid of instruments.
Record and replay
Record a flight at 10 Hz, replay it on the panel with play, pause and scrub, and export it as CSV or a GPX track.
Day and night
Nothing on screen but the instruments. Red or amber night lighting, portrait and landscape, phones and tablets.
Private by design
No accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. The app has no internet permission, so everything stays on your device.
Android 8.0 and newer
Works with whatever sensors your phone has, and shows which ones each instrument is reading.
Screenshots
Get it
Closed testing on Google Play opens soon. Join the testers group to hear when it starts, and see the testers' guide for what's involved.
Not for navigation
Pocket Avionics is a toy and a learning aid, not a certified flight instrument. Phone sensors drift, lag and fail without warning, and the airspeed indicator shows GPS ground speed, not airspeed. Never use it for navigation, for flight in cloud, or in place of the aircraft's own instruments.