GPS Cockpit View

Get the cockpit feeling on every flight or drive and see what the pilot sees. GPS Cockpit View shows an attitude indicator, compass, airspeed and altimeter tapes and a variometer, driven by GPS and your phone's motion sensors.

For aviation enthusiasts, passengers and anyone who wants to see how flight instruments behave in a cockpit.

SIX INSTRUMENTS
• Attitude indicator: bank and pitch
• Compass: heading plus GPS track
• Airspeed tape: GPS ground speed in m/s, km/h, ft/s or kt (nm/h)
• Altimeter tape: GPS altitude in ft, nm, m or km
• Variometer: climb and sink rate in ft/min
• Position readout in decimal degrees or degrees/minutes/seconds

FLYING OR DRIVING, MOUNTED OR HANDHELD
• Flying: bank and pitch follow the tilt of the phone, like a real attitude indicator
• Driving: a car doesn't bank, so the app shows the bank an aircraft would have flying the same turn, calculated from turn rate and speed
• Mounted: uses the motion sensors for the most responsive display
• Handheld: bank and pitch from GPS only, for a calm display while the phone moves in your hand
• Automatic calibration, plus a double-tap on the attitude indicator to level the horizon

RECORD AND REPLAY
• Record flights and drives, including sensor data, with pause and resume
• Recording continues with the screen off or the app in the background
• GPS and sensor data are recorded on the same clock
• Replay shows exactly what the instruments showed, on an OpenStreetMap map, with a scrub bar and playback at 1×, 2×, 5× or 10× speed
• Export tracks as GPX or KML (KML shows your track in 3D in Google Earth)
• Back up and restore all tracks as a single file

MAKE IT YOURS
• Units: km/h, knots, m/s or ft/s; feet, meters, km or nautical miles
• UTC or local time
• Separate instrument layouts for landscape and portrait
• Show or hide each instrument; adjust colors, transparency, size and position

EXTERNAL BLUETOOTH GPS
Connect an external Bluetooth GPS receiver (for example a Garmin GLO 2) for faster and more accurate positions. Live satellite counts show the quality of your fix.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your location, sensor data and tracks stay on your phone. Only the replay map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap; everything else works offline.

Try it right after installing: in try-out mode the cockpit already moves with your phone. Double-tap the center of the attitude indicator to align it with your phone's neutral orientation, then wait about 2 seconds while pitch is calibrated. To readjust bank, simply double-tap again. A built-in How-To page explains every feature.

IMPORTANT: Made for passengers. If you are flying or driving: mount the phone firmly, set everything up before departure, and do not touch or operate the app while in motion. GPS Cockpit View is not a navigation or flight aid – never base flying or driving decisions on it. No guarantee is given that the displayed values are accurate, complete or available at all times.

Cockpit photos: @bavarianaviator

Recent changes:
First release of GPS Cockpit View – the cockpit feeling for passengers.
• Attitude indicator, compass, airspeed and altimeter tapes, variometer
• Works on flights and drives, phone mounted or handheld
• Start, pause and stop recording right on the Cockpit; replay tracks on the map
• External Bluetooth GPS supported
• In English and German
• Tips on the main pages and a built-in How-To guide