Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Navigation, wind mapping, flight data and tracking for Hot Air Balloon pilots!
The Hot Air Balloon is an app that keeps track of all your flight information and navigation so you can focus on the flight. Includes everything for navigation, tracking and logging. The app also features advanced wind-mapping with integrated wind data sharing and map-processing such as overlays of sensitive areas and import of competition maps.Features- Flight instruments: Speed, Variometer, Bearing and Altimeter, using barometer if present!- Track: Records your flight path and altitude- Logging: View, interact and share recorded tracks. Upload you logs to Drive/Dropbox or share by email- Network: Your data can be shared in real time with anyone on the same network code. The retrieve vehicle can see your position, targets etc and wind data is integrated from multiple ballons.- Maps: Navigate with the standard Google Map or with terrain/satellite mode- Overlays: Import map details such as powerlines or sensitive areas in open formats such as KML, (windmaster) XML, JPG or PNG.- Waypoints and Geometry: Add markers and targets on the fly. Even geometries such as projection lines, areas or circles!- WindMap and Projections: The app keeps track on direction and velocity of winds in all altitudes you have been to, visualized as projections on the map!All altitudes are now handled internally as feet. Please report any altitude errors!Re-wrote how the windmap data is stored and visualized.Updates to kml support.I am working on iOS version ;)
The Hot Air Balloon is an app that keeps track of all your flight information and navigation so you can focus on the flight. Includes everything for navigation, tracking and logging. The app also features advanced wind-mapping with integrated wind data sharing and map-processing such as overlays of sensitive areas and import of competition maps.Features- Flight instruments: Speed, Variometer, Bearing and Altimeter, using barometer if present!- Track: Records your flight path and altitude- Logging: View, interact and share recorded tracks. Upload you logs to Drive/Dropbox or share by email- Network: Your data can be shared in real time with anyone on the same network code. The retrieve vehicle can see your position, targets etc and wind data is integrated from multiple ballons.- Maps: Navigate with the standard Google Map or with terrain/satellite mode- Overlays: Import map details such as powerlines or sensitive areas in open formats such as KML, (windmaster) XML, JPG or PNG.- Waypoints and Geometry: Add markers and targets on the fly. Even geometries such as projection lines, areas or circles!- WindMap and Projections: The app keeps track on direction and velocity of winds in all altitudes you have been to, visualized as projections on the map!All altitudes are now handled internally as feet. Please report any altitude errors!Re-wrote how the windmap data is stored and visualized.Updates to kml support.I am working on iOS version ;)
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This App is great! I agree with the other positive reviews, so I won't repeat what has already been said. It would be helpful to have the ability to trim the flight track in the log. I sometimes forget to end the logging after landing, so the App continues to track my drive home and sitting on my desk, and 28 hours later...oops!
A must have for pilots! The app offers everything needed for a safe and competitive flights. Especially useful are target setting and wind maps. In addition, the developer Rune is very helpful and immediately offers support and improvements if you have anything in mind that could be added. Highly recommend!
Seems to track accurately, not able to export/share flight...update....working now with no errors!
App is not recording, please fix when you play back says file not found.
Works well and is helpful in flight. Sometimes the altitude track doesn't work and is jumpy and the geometry like circles, I can't save them and they seem to go away after each flight. I would like to be able to change the color of the track so the black doesn't blend in so much. It does have some cool features like the windmap and future track with the colors. If the geometry saved, five stars. Almost comparable to Hot Air IOS.
Use the app everyday for years and very happy customer. Easy to use and complete. However, since the update, I have crashes during map loading as well as when entering setting menu, even after reinstalling. Please create a patch 🙌 Edit : after several updates, the app is running better than ever, thank you for the good job!!
Hot Air Balloon Pilot is not iOS Hot Air. They are different, each with their strengths. With Hot Air Balloon Pilot I am able to load custom PZ maps and competition Targets and Goals in a KML format. I have had no trouble exporting maps from the log file and using them in other programs. The ability to put targets, exclusion zones, wind lines and other graphics on the map has been great. I use this program to teach as well as in competition. The vertical wind profile is an amazing feature. The ability to communicate my position with my ground crew and other pilots makes other position sharing applications seem weak. There are a few nit picks that would be nice to fix: add UTM to Lat Long conversion, make the coordinate input fields larger, add the ability to assign color to targets (to match the baggie), make the winds above me blue, and the winds below me green. None of these detract from a very functional and easy to use program. Rune Paamand has be very responsive every time I have had questions from the other side of the ocean; providing responses by my next day. Now, my remaining challenge in competitive ballooning is my own lack of skill and how to keep my competitors from learning of this!
I thought that the iOS Hot Air app had finally come to Android, however this is a cheap imitation/knock off app. It does not work at all like the app my friends with iPhones use. I am extremely disappointed.
Useful but recorded files cannot be exported. It must be improved.
Brilliant! For the serious competitor!