imclab/aloft

aloft is a beautiful way to see NOAA winds aloft forecasts on your iOS device. Useful for skydivers and pilots!

aloft

A RubyMotion application brought to you by Mohawk Apps.

aloft is the beautiful new way to check NOAA winds aloft forecasts from your iOS device!

Whether you are a pilot, skydiver, wingsuiter, or simply an aviation enthusiast-this app is for you!

App Features:

• Pick any NOAA weather station that provides winds aloft forecast data.
• Weather stations are automatically sorted by how close they are to you. This helps you choose the closes station with ease.
• Shows bearing and wind directional arrow for each altitude.
• Easily switch between metric and imperial units.
• Use your phone's compass to dynamically update the wind direction arrow to the actual direction the wind is blowing!

Give aloft a try and you'll never need to figure out what "760253" means again!

For the curious, "760253" means: Winds at 102 knots bearing 260 degrees at 53°C... or -53°C if above 24,000 feet.

This app is open source. Browse the source code here: https://github.com/MohawkApps/aloft/

Download from the App Store

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Icon by the talented Mel Shields.

How to run the app:

1. You must have a valid license of RubyMotion.
2. Run bundle
3. Run rake pod:install
4. Run rake
5. The simulator should launch automatically.

Compass tracking of wind direction based on phone orientation requires that you run it on an actual device. Building RubyMotion apps to a device is out of the scope of this readme.

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Contributing:

1. Fork it.
2. Work on a feature branch.
3. Send me a pull request.

I also like it when people who can't contribute open an issue