V-Cockpit GPS App Reviews

Compass works - Attitude indicator works for roll and pitch - speed indicator works if GPS is enabled and accessible. Attitude indicator, in addition to responding changes in roll and pitch, also responds to acceleration/deacceleration - - - and lateral "G" forces - - -- which, makes for some cool looking responses when youre driving around town BUT which have nothing to do with changes in attitude. So, the AI "banks" and "pitches up" as your car turns or accelerates . . .. . Altimeter and VSI work - marginally - and with a lot of lag in response-time to an initial climb. So, for example, a climb over an overpass at 60 miles an hour, wont produce any indicated changes in altitude or rate of climb until youre already on the other side (and descending) ! Altimeter appears to be accurate once the instrument is allowed to settle down . . . Have not seen ANY indication in the so-called "acceleration" indicator - - - it has sat unchanging whether in my car going from 0 to 60, or, in a B737 takeoff ! Cant tell if the units of measurement are too great for the meter to indicate anything or if this feature just isnt working . . . . but, in either case, indicated values are non-existant or unreadable. At the end of the day, the above make this app a little fun and pretty much useless . ... well worth the current "free" price.

This is a great application. It has worked in planes, cars, and trains without any problems. I have have/have had several Garmin GPSs, including an Aviation unit (I am a private pilot). V-Cockpit calculates and displays parameters which a stand alone GPS cannot. The HUD (Heads Up Display), the ability to see individual instruments and save the recorded data are awesome. V-Cockpit does not have the aviation data base built in for navigation like aviation GPSs do, but that is not its intended use. To have an app with the capabilities of V-Cockpit available fot $2 is incredible to me.

Everything about this app is just great. Really makes me feel like a pilot! At home, in my car... maybe one day in my plane

This app used to allow you to view the camera through it, with the GPS data overlaid--that was a most excellent feature that Id love too see come back. It could also use some more color choices for the heads-up feature. One last suggestion is adding time-to-go for the next/final destination--Id definitely pay for that upgrade!

Good idea, but few precision sometimes.

A very cool and fun app to have while driving. Wish it had a real time weather radar!

Fun to use

I used it on a flight from San Diego to Sacramento last week and it gave me altitude, speed, and coordinates in real time. Definitely worth the $. Of course the phone must be on for it to work. Duh! I am using a fully updated iPhone 4.

I really like this app. Tools for gps with the "Bad elf" even make it better. The only thing I wish you would fix is the HUD display, its colors are too hard to see. Make the lower horizon brown and the sky blue just like the artificial horizon guage. Also, make the altitude and knots meters white. I will give 5 stars if that changes.

for starters, lets get an iPad version out there. and lets do something a little different than the competition, like including an HSI, CDI and vertical guidance. but the price is OK.

This is one of the coolest apps ever! Finally an app has exposed the full range of spatial awareness the iPhone is capable of. I found the app because I was looking for a way to quantify some amusement park rides: how fast they went, how far they went up/down, how many times did it go upside down in the dark, etc? I saw from the free version that this app was exactly what I was looking for. I paid for the full version so I could access the charts/graphs of historical data, which is a fantastic feature to have. So far, very happy with it.

Happily upgraded from Lite version and for the price (essentially free compared to hardwired sensors) it cant be beat. Got this for primarily for driving, though it works great for commercial flights as well. Excellent HUD for night driving, and for seeing just how, shall we say, enthusiastically, my time on the road was spent. I have a high end aftermarket GPS in one of my vehicles that shows many of the same sensor details, but I cant easily get the info out. Hitting export inside this app us far simpler than pulling the hard drive from my AVIC - and this works in any vehicle I choose. Excellent app.

nice and cool, I wish in the HUD mode the background was a real camera view from the iPhone or any chosen neutral color and mirror image available for reflective screen.

Very cool app. Works great! Just needs an update for the latest models of iPhone to fill the screen and be Retina display friendly.

I like putting the phone on my dashboard while driving in the mountains. Works pretty well with the exception of the compass heading which is frequently way off and unreliable. I would think it should be pretty easy to get a much more accurate heading especially when using GPS to derive it. Considering this why does it want to calibrate the phones magnetic compass at times?