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Fly long and safely with a tablet
Make free flight with a tablet? Not very serious many practitioners say, reluctant to carry a camera a priori quite fragile and bulky. Yet the arrival of the iPad mini and specialized accessories changed that, lively steering assisted by high resolution touch screen!
Practiceparaglidingorhang-gliderrequires taking into account many parameters to manage its flight optimally. It is both fly insafelywhile trying to stay as long as possible in the air. ThePDAsEmbedded are increasinglynumerous: Alti-variometer, GPS, speed sensors, anemometers, or mété stationso ...
And if we put it all in an iPad?
Flight preparation
The first parameter to integrate before flying from is obviously the state of theweather. Ofspecialized applicationsavailable on your tablet will provide alldatanecessary: Temperature, cloud cover, humidity and especially the strength of the winds. In addition it is possible to watch live weather some sites off through webcams installed nearby.
Moreover, we can see on the screen of the iPadtopographyall angles, identify barriers, site effects and potential dangers and consider the variouslanding zonespossible.
An effective instrument flight
Most paragliders use aalti-varioto guide them during their flight. However, it is possible to replace these specialized devices byaCases more versatile. Indeed, complete applicationsand precise, developed by professionals of free flight, are available on the appstore (see selection of the best apps). Using GPS, accelerometer or gyroscope built into your iPad, they provide similar information to the various instruments of flights. For example they can tells your yourabsolute altitudeand that from the point of takeoff, vertical speed, sink rate, heading or trackGPS positionlongitude and latitude.
Moreover, in case of doubt on the location, a glance at thetopographic mapdisplayed on a high resolution screen you can not get out of a bad.
It goes without saying that this implieswell setthe device on the wing or on itself so as to manipulate the touch screen safe and well protected against landing a little rough! For this we propose thecases and accessories suitable.
After the flight
The iPad also offers the possibilityrecording a trackall your flights and then viewing in 3D on Google Earth to analyze and share them with other fans.
On a more playful level, it may alsorecord beautiful videos and pictureshis flight to share on social networks.
The number of electronic devices that can be carried in flight being particularly restricted in free flight, the iPad and versatility could therefore prove to be the perfect compromise, especially mini iPad version.
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