Pressure Altimeter 1.1
Free Version
Publisher Description
Pressure Altimeter - This is a basic barometric pressure altimeter.
Does what it says on the tin. This is a basic barometric pressure altimeter. Uses your Android device's built-in barometer to implement a standard pressure altimeter. Only works on devices with barometers.
Great for hikers or anybody else who would like to know their elevation.
No ads. No spyware. No nonsense.
Instructions:
Go to settings and set your preferred units: feet or meters; inches of mercury or millibars.
Find out the local altimeter setting (pilots can get this from the nearest airport). This will look something like "29.92" (inches of mercury) or "1013" (millibars). Touch the display to bring up the Kollsman window. Set this to the local altimeter setting on the left. Now you simply look at the display. Altitude is displayed numerically on the left, and via the three hands. The very skinny hand ending with a triangle represents 10,000 feet (or meters), the short fat hand is 1,000 feet, and the long hand is 100 feet. You read it pretty much like a clock.
If you don't know the local altimeter setting, use 29.92.
OR, if you know your altitude and want to find the altimeter setting, use the Kollsman window and just enter your altitude on the right.
This is what is known in aviation as a "sensitive altimeter", meaning that altitude is calibrated based on a sea-level reference pressure. Touch the altimeter face to bring up the Kollsman adjustment window. Enter the current sea-level pressure (altimeter setting) to calibrate the altimeter. OR, enter the known local elevation to get the altimeter setting.
See Wikipedia for more information about sensitive altimeters and how they're used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altimeter. Aviation altimeter settings can be obtained from aviation weather reports (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR) and airport information broadcasts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atis) if you have an aircraft-band radio.
Pro-tip: use the Kollsman window to set the local elevation to zero, to get the local barometric pressure.
Preferences allow you to select altitude (meters or feet), pressure units (inches mercury or millibars), screen orientation, and keep screen on.
Not approved for aviation use. Compare to a real altimeter before you even think of using this, even as a backup.
Privacy policy: this app never collects personal data of any kind and it never even connects to the internet. It does not display ads.
About Pressure Altimeter
Pressure Altimeter is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.
The company that develops Pressure Altimeter is Edward Falk. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.
To install Pressure Altimeter on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-01-06 and was downloaded 0 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Pressure Altimeter as malware as malware if the download link to org.efalk.altimeter is broken.
How to install Pressure Altimeter on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Pressure Altimeter is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Pressure Altimeter will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Pressure Altimeter will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.