Altimeter for Aviators

I love this app, works great especially VSI on highest resolution scale. I find this extremely useful when driving through mountainous terrain. When I turn on the app it is red because of old data, this needs to be a night vision option, red is preferred but blue or green might work at night as well also the header and footer need to be black at night. The white text and screen destroy my night vision. Also the deadband on the altitude flag needs to be tightened up. Zero meter screen and 1000 meter screen are the same on highest resolution screen (1m), Flag needs to transition between 995 m and 999 meter with flag half visible during transition.

As a pilot I was looking for an app like this, and I had high hopes that it was well supported because there was an update posted just days ago. However, I see no email address in the app or on the website. How do you have FAQs with no way people can actually ask questions? So here’s my question. I downloaded the app set the local pressure, and looked at all the options on my iPhone and Watch. Then I added the complication on my Watch. I assume the complication should display the altitude, but over three hours later I just have a dashed line. Should I be seeing the altitude? I have updated the local pressure twice now - still no complication update. How often should I expect the complication to update, if it ever does?

As a pilot for many years, this is the first altimeter app that makes immediate sense: just “plop” the altimeter setting in, and you’re good to go. Just like in the cockpit. It’s like “KISS.” That said, for those of you that don’t understand altimetry, you do have to input an altimeter reading from a known source. There are a myriad of METAR and other apps like ATIS that you can do this with. Try to use sites within 5 statute miles of your location. Or just do it the “old fashioned way”: input your known MSL altitude, and the “Kollsman window” (Kollsman Instrument Division of the Square D Corporation) will return the field elevation altimeter setting. How’s that for a free history lesson! I’ve “promoted” this app to the top of my home page, already overstuffed with apps from A to Z. Good job, guys!