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Vario

Aircraft-like altimeter and variometer with GPS, terrain and barometer modes.

Android · v1.2.0 · Lars Falk-Petersen

About Vario

Aircraft altimeter and variometer instruments for your phone, for aviation

enthusiasts. Not for navigation use, just for fun!

Three altitude sources, cycled with the MODE button:

* GPS - altitude straight from the GPS receiver. Very coarse.

* MAP - ground (terrain) elevation below your position, from the Open-Meteo

elevation API (GLO-90). This is ground elevation, not height above ground.

* BAR - barometric altitude, computed from the pressure sensor in the

device and sea-level pressure (QNH) which is fetched from api.met.no.

Accurat and fast. QNH can be set manually if you do not want to give position

access.

The altimeter is the classic three-pointer 100s / 1000s / 10 000s layout with a

Kollsman window. Tap a dial to zoom in, tap again to zoom out. IMP/MET switches

between feet and metres. Long-press MODE or IMP/MET toggles a debug overlay

with a pressure strip chart in BAR mode.

Privacy:

* No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no crash reporting.

* Settings are stored on the device only.

* Coordinates rounded to four decimal places are sent to

api.met.no (QNH) and api.open-meteo.com (terrain elevation); those two

services see your IP address as well.

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