Peter wrote:
VR goggles make me extremely disoriented for at least an hour afterwards
VR makes me ill if there is any lag. A decent VR headset does not bother me. I have an original Oculus with a powerful PC and it works great – no motion sickness. DCS World. It’s been collecting dust for a couple of years since I now have the real thing – minus the bullets.
I found VR goggles make me extremely disoriented for at least an hour afterwards. Some previous thread. Some don’t have that problem.
etn wrote:
an app for those fancy Apple augmented reality glasses
and even less people looking outside, but instead staring at some virtual world… what a pity, has the real world really become so dull and meaningless? Might as well stay at home and play FS…
Edit: been looking for it on the IOS App Store, seems the app is called “AircraftPower”.
You’re correct! The other name was a typo by me, now fixed. Glad you like it anyway.
Silvaire wrote:
I like the EnginePower App
@Silvaire: That’s a terrific app! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve always wanted something like that to double check the % power indicated by the engine monitor.
Edit: been looking for it on the IOS App Store, seems the app is called “AircraftPower”.
LeSving wrote:
What I would like though, is an F-35 style helmet/visor/glasses with data projected onto it.
I’m sure someone will sooner or later come out with an app for those fancy Apple augmented reality glasses :D
I would like a calculator which reproduces the (very small and fuzzy) printed takeoff and landing distance graphs that are in my POH.
In principle these could be turned into spreadsheets that would take the relevant variables as inputs and output the result based on the relationships graphed in the POH . Also it would be good to include other factors such as various surfaces, slopes and tailwinds.
Meantime I use my own W&B spreadsheet, where the inputs list all possible things I would normally fly with and output the overall effect:
The X axis is inches and the Y axis pounds weight. The dashed blue lines are the effect of varying fuel levels in main and tip tanks. The continuous coloured lines are the aircraft plus its other contents by category. In this example with 100 USG of fuel, I can’t carry more fuel while staying within the envelope unless I put more weight in the baggage compartment (green line); the graph makes this obvious.
The only time I use a calculator in flying is after landing, when I calculate
(86.2 – LFOB) * 3.778
and compare the result to the pump fill 
LFOB is the Landing Fuel on Board from the fuel totaliser.
And I have two calcs on my phone; one simple and one very complicated; probably even has an HP35 RPN emulation mode
Flying is best served by the seat of your pants
Aviation calculators/computers looks like this:
I think an issue here is that people like to have stuff at one place. For instance Sky Demon can be used for most, if not all the calculations etc you would do, at least flying VFR.
What I would like though, is an F-35 style helmet/visor/glasses with data projected onto it.
