NAVIGRAPH ACCOUNT
NAVDATA
With a Navigraph subscription that has charts, the CHARTS page loads Jeppesen's airport charts and the procedures on them: fetched when shown, never kept on this device. The avionics fly the FAA's own procedure data for the US, built in; Navigraph's navigation data for them comes later.
Live weather off: generated, instrument conditions at the airports
Lighting
Each on or off; with none on, the basic lighting (one sun and a fixed sky light). Global illumination: light captured from the sky and ground around you, hard sun shadows on the terrain and in the cockpit, cloud shade. Static shading: fixed map-style shading and a virtual cockpit lighting rig; it takes turns with global illumination. Sun tint: colors tinted by where the sun is relative to your view. Cloud shadows: a cloud with another between it and the sun loses the sun and its glow, keeping the sky's light.
Terrain texture
Satellite detail at the ground
How much ground a pixel of the imagery covers near the airplane on the ground; coarser as it climbs, and further off. 2 m is as fine as the imagery goes (about 1.9 m a pixel in the middle of the US). Finer takes more downloading and graphics memory, which a phone may run short of.
Time
Pilot flying
You are the pilot monitoring: you program the G1000 and the autopilot flies it. Tap a display in its panel zone to open it with its keys and knobs. The pilot flying sets power and flaps, starts climbs and descents to the altitude you select, and goes around at minimums.
Failures
Altimeter or the BARO knob
Flight kept on this device
Where the airplane is and how it's flying, its flight plan, the autopilot, the radios and the settings are kept on this device as you go, and picked up where they were when the page opens again. A new flight starts over on the flight plan (or what the page's address sets up).
Frame rate lower saves battery
Frames drawn a second at most. Max draws as often as the screen does; 30 is the phone's default here, 60 a computer's.
Controls
With a mouse, whatever can be worked lights up under the pointer, with a label saying how. Click keys; scroll over a knob to turn the ring under the pointer, click to push it. On a touchscreen, move in to a panel, then tap a key, tap a knob to pick its next ring, drag up or down on it to turn (up is clockwise), and hold to push. Move your head with the arrow keys (shift: forward and back), by scrolling (up and down: forward and back; sideways: sideways; shift: up and down) or with two fingers: drag to slide, pinch to move forward and back.
Touch controls on this device
Flying with your fingers: take the ring and move it to fly the yoke, and the line under it for the rudder pedals (on the ground too, to steer). Anywhere else the view still turns with a drag, and a tap moves in to a panel, where the controls stay so you can fly while you work it. Let go, the ring and the line go back to the middle, or, set to hold, stay where they are. The buttons sit at the screen's left or right edge, shown or hidden with ≡: throttle and flaps held and dragged up or down; trim held, then slid off its top for nose down or its bottom for nose up; the brakes; the parking brake. Double-tap away from the controls in the cockpit's own view to let go of them (hands off); the yoke button brings them back.
About
Not approved for flight training. my-aircraft is a personal study aid: it is not approved, certified or endorsed by any aviation authority, manufacturer or training organization, and its procedures and systems may be incomplete or wrong. Train from the approved documents for your aircraft.
Scenery: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), served as vector tiles by OpenFreeMap (© OpenMapTiles); terrain from AWS Terrain Tiles (USGS 3DEP and others); night lights and the Landsat mosaic from NASA's GIBS (public domain); satellite imagery from the USGS National Map (public domain); airports, runways and their lighting from the FAA's airport data (NASR) and OurAirports (public domain). Navigation data: FAA Coded Instrument Flight Procedures (public domain, not for navigation). Magnetic variation from NOAA's World Magnetic Model (public domain). Live weather from aviationweather.gov. Charts, with a Navigraph account: Jeppesen's, through Navigraph. Lettering: B612 and B612 Mono, the typeface made for Airbus's cockpit screens (Intactile DESIGN; SIL Open Font License).