HandBearing: Marine Compass

By Netflowers Inc. on AppTrack Ninja.

Sailing Log & Pelorus Sight

The compass apps on your phone show a dial from above, as if the phone lay flat on a chart table. A real hand bearing compass works differently: you hold it up at eye level, sight your target over it, and read the bearing off the side of a floating vertical card. HandBearing puts that instrument on your screen. SIGHT AND READ - Hold your phone up and aim at a lighthouse, a buoy, a vessel or a peak - The vertical card turns behind dome glass, damped like the real liquid-filled instrument, and the lubber line reads your bearing - True or magnetic reference, with the reciprocal bearing always at…

Categories: Navigation, Utilities

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